Children and young people constitute a core target group for health literacy research and practice: during childhood and youth, fundamental cognitive, physical and emotional development processes take place and health-related behaviours and skills develo
Understanding Health Equity in Early Childhood: Adverse Experiences, Socioeconomic Position, and Eating HabitsBrittany Schuler, PhD
Demonstrating a causal influence would strongly support childhood and adolescent health as important for education policy. We applied genetic causal inference methods to assess the causal relationship of common health conditions at age 10 (primary/elementary school) and 13 (mid-secondary/mid-high school...
A session held at the APIC 2023 Annual Conference & Exhibition delved into the importance of equity in infection prevention and explored the impact of health inequities on the transmission of diseases.
Health equity is the fair and just opportunity for every individual to achieve their full potential in all aspects of health and well-being. But that’s a far cry from what exists in the United States today. Significant health disparities—quantifiable differences in health-related outcomes—have...
requires closing the opportunity gap; placing equity at the center of public health aims; incorporating health equity measures into public health initiatives from the start; and infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into the workforce. Public health leaders cannot tackle health equity alone...
One of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2020 is to eliminate disparities and achieve health equity (Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, [41]). Vulnerable populations, including teenagers, often face health disparities due to system-wide barriers to accessing needed services and...
“Our CSSOs will also be out and about playing their part in improving health equity and foster better engagement across all Queensland communities.”“As QAS continues to develop a more culturally responsive and inclusive workplace, our new team will be working to support our workforce to ...
Initially the search terms “social determinants of health” and “health equity” were used with one or more of the following keywords: “indicators”, “measurement”, “metrics”, “healthy communities,”“community development,”“planning,” and “public health.” The wider web search ...
Achieving Health Equity in Cancer Care with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders: Joint Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council and Queensland Health Framework 2024 (the Framework)was released at the Joint First Nations Forum in August. ...