Community Health Workers (CHWs), when embedded in and adequately supported by primary care teams, can play a critical role in supporting the delivery of health services globally. Evidence from published literature has established CHW effectiveness in improving maternal and child health outcomes [2,3]...
inequities in maternal healthcare persist. For example, inequities can be observed in access to services such as consultation with a healthcare professional (i.e., general practitioner, obstetrician, gynecologist, midwife), timely prenatal screening, and prevention and early intervention...
Conveniently omitted from this heavily biased documentary are decades of research confirming that the healthiest, longest-living populations on earth consume fish, meat, and/or dairy as a regular part of their diet, along with an abundance of plants. These cultures include, among others: ...
V., Ness, O., & Storch, J. (2021). Co-creation of public values: Citizenship, social justice and well-being. In A. O. Thomassen & J. B. Jensen (Eds.), Processual perspectives on the co-production turn in public sector organizations (pp. 20–41). IGI Global. Chapter Google ...
health care system and acknowledge the importance of the wider and more complex social determinants of health and thus the need to work with multiple stakeholders (e.g. local authorities, education providers, criminal justice system, private sector) across their local systems [45]....
“labor rights and justice in global health pay structures” [32]. One recently reported study of CHWs in Madagascar found that among 874 unpaid CHWs across the country, 92% were food-insecure, and 89% had experienced a shock in food household security in the previous year. Eighteen percent...
The law is more than a set of rules and prohibitions; the law is about justice. With lawyers work- ing hand in hand with doctors and using the UNCRC as its framework for children's right to the highest attainable standard of health, the sum is a powerful and unstoppable weapon of ...
"Wisdom is like love, intelligence, decency and justice in that it is a good thing to have and the more a person has of it, the better." John Kekes, Ph.D. 1982 [8]. Challenges 2021, 12, 26 3 of 14 Across cultures and over millennia, wisdom has been celebrated as a revered ...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Article Cool Communities—Urban Density, Trees, and Health Helen Brown 1,* ID , Katrina Proust 2, Barry Newell 2, Jeffery Spickett 1, Tony Capon 3 and Lisa Bartholomew 1 1 WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Impact ...
(e.g., in housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, healthcare, criminal justice, etc.) that in turn reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources”. 2. Materials and Methods 2.1. Study Design Thus, to provide timely access to evidence-based ...