Despite a publicly-funded healthcare system, alarming cancer-related health and healthcare inequities persist in Canada. However, it remains unclear how equity is being understood and taken up within the Canadian cancer context. Our objective was to iden
We anticipated that the scholarly databases would cover much of the health equity literature and, thus, prioritized more time for searching the grey literature. Second, relevant publications in disciplines outside of the health sciences may have been missed. With limited access to databases, our ...
Data used for advocacy need to be recent and timely.2,40 Local-level data are said to be particularly persua- sive in advocating for health equity, in part because they make social inequities more difficult to ignore.30,51-54 Several scholarly articles men- tion community-based partic...
We searched two scholarly databases, namely MEDLINE (Ovid) and Web of Science, the websites of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and governments, and reviewed evidence shared during WHO-led consultations on the topic of health equity for persons with disabilities....
Factors that contribute to this limitation include the reputation of the authors within the scholarly community and the overall quality of the article, variables that are difficult to incorporate into a predictive model. 3.2. Sources This expansion of research on the topic also co-occurs with a ...
Nonetheless, lessons for improving healthcare services for this important unmet need must be drawn from the scholarly literature. A scoping review is necessary for the following reasons: (1) A significant amount of research investigating new sexual health interventions has emerged in the past few ...
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Recent scholarly inquiries have unveiled that within the digital health landscape, individuals possessing heightened health literacy are adept at navigating the online milieu to acquire health information. Additionally, they exhibit prowess in discerning, judging, and evaluating the accuracy, scientific ...
The Journal of Public Health Policy (JPHP) will continue its 35 year tradition: an accessible source of scholarly articles on the epidemiologic and social foundations of public health policy, rigorously edited, and progressive. JPHP aims to create a more inclusive public health policy dialogue, ...
A narrative review was selected for the review method [41] because of the interdisciplinary nature of the topic and the qualitative focus of much of the literature. This involved a systematic search for relevant scholarly literature across a range of disciplines including political science, internation...