In short, viewing health disparities through the lens of social groups can help guide inter- ventions, enable surveillance of important equity issues, and advance our understanding of health by helping us make connections that may have not been initially obvious (3, 6). Alternatively, it is ...
In response to persistent health disparities, many middle- and low-income countries have incorporated equity goals into their national public health programs. At a global level, initiatives such as the Global Equity Gauge have helped to develop and refine research methods to measure health disparities...
Payne, G. H., James, S. D, Jr, Hawley, L., Corrigan, B., Kramer, R. E., Overton, S. N., et al. (2015). CDC’s Health Equity Resource Toolkit: Disseminating guidance for state practitioners to address obesity disparities. Health Promotion Practice, 16 (1), 84–90. Central...
A summary definition of health equity attempts to unite these distinct concerns into a single construct14: health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. The definition also clearly emphasizes health as distinct from life expectancy or access to hea...
The success of public health depends on adhering to the basic rules of equity, partnerships, and social justice, as well as the mobilization of local, national, and international resources. In the preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), health is defined as “a ...
In a world of accelerating climate impacts and ecological constraints, the science and craft of economic evaluation will have no choice but to become far more focused on managing real resources, driving disinvestment from low-value services, and improving health outcomes through improving equity; and...
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The Health Division of OECD applies an additional boundary stating that the primary purpose of spending is health, of which we consider as implicit in the definition of the ACPM (https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Expenditure-on-prevention-activities-under-SHA-2011_Supplementary-guidance.pdf...
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/conditions/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/case-definition/2020/08/05/ (2020). Download references Acknowledgements Funding for support of the CLSA COVID-19 questionnaire-based study is provided by the Juravinski Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster...
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