InequityOccupational healthself-perceived healthBackground: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world's most inequitable region in terms of wealth distribution. The full scale of social inequalities in health has been hidden by the lack of reliable data. This study aimed to measure and ...
Different groups experience inequity and associated adverse health outcomes in myriad ways. However, using unclear or conflated definitions of inequity, inequality, and disparity can mismeasure or magnify the inequities that studies aim to understand and reduce. Thus, concepts of inequity and inequality ...
Inequity and inequality in the use of health care in England: an empirical investigation. The Brazilian Unified Health System was created in the late 1980s to ensure free universal access to health care and was funded by taxes and social contrib... S Morris,M Sutton,H Gravelle - 《Social ...
Prior studies have consistently reported on the negative correlation between diet quality and low educational attainment and income [9,43]. Government policies targeting older adults at particular risk for poor nutrition are an important response to correct this inequity. In the US, there are effectiv...
International Journal for Equity in Healthis calling for submissions to our Collection The Role of Social Sciences in Addressing Inequity Related to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). This Collection is dedicated to showcasing the potential of social sciences in addressing the global health challenges ...
We propose broadening the approach to dealing with racial health inequity by considering the interplay of race and class in the politics of the United States. This approach, combined with a grasp of the historical roots of race relations in North America, could hold the promise of improving our...
For working-aged adults, the leading causes of inequity in 2019 are cancer (3.6 HEM points), drug overdose (3.3 HEM points), heart disease (3.0 HEM points), unintentional injury (2.0 HEM points), suicide (1.7 HEM points) and diabetes (1.2 HEM points). For the elderly, cancer (2.9 HEM...
This inequity and the lack of meaningful governmental intervention in the provision of health care, including genetic services, are at the heart of the bioethical dilemmas in Latin America. It is not surprising, therefore, that bioethics in the region has developed an approach grounded in social ...
Health equity-related investments have failed to demonstrate desired social and financial returns due to an avoidance in addressing the interrelated root causes of persistent inequity — systemic drivers such as racism, classism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism that shape social det...
The Giving Voice to Mothers study: Inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States. Reprod Health. 2019;16(1):77. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Harrison S, Pilkington V, Li Y, Quigley MA, Alderdice F. Disparities in who is asked about their ...