The reasons health inequalities occur are multifactorial and can have a detrimental impact on health outcomes. The childbirth continuum is a unique and opportune time to reduce health inequalities and employ a life-course approach to health. With increasing inequality and poverty in the UK, alongside...
Reducing health inequities within and between countries is an ethical, social, and economic imperative and a goal of health systems worldwide [3,5,6]. Health equity has been a priority for the Canadian public health sector since the release of the World Health Organization’s Ottawa Charter for...
et al. Health matters: a statistical approach to understand childhood illnesses in the North-East States of India, 2019–2021. BMC Public Health 24, 3121 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20090-y Download citation Received24 December 2023 Accepted13 September 2024 Published12 November...
These inequalities, which appear to be widening, call into question the strategies for child mortality reduction relied upon to date. We review (1) what is known about the causes of socioeconomic inequalities in child health and where programs aimed at reducing inequalities may be most...
Reducing health inequalities through general practice. Lancet Public Health. 2023;8(6):e463–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00093-2. Article PubMed Google Scholar Kivits J, Balard F, Fournier C, et al. Les recherches qualitatives en santé. Malakoff: Armand Colin; 2016. p....
Reducing inequalities in health is an important challenge for public policy. In the US, for example, inequalities in life expectancy have been increasing during this century (Chetty et al., 2016). These inequalities were more stable in Europe (Bosworth, 2018) but have intensified during the CO...
Contextual factors that affect health include policies, infrastructural resources, and public support programs (3) and are, therefore, potential targets of intervention for reducing health inequalities. Compositional effects refer to variations in health attributable to the health status of the individuals ...
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Dr Shukla added: "We don't want to be the worst in England in any of these areas, we want to be the best instead. That's what we have to work towards now, reducing these inequalities across the board." emma_brady@mrn.co.uk Sexual health In 2004, 2,248 new cases of HIV we...
we (Leeds Beckett,Social Lifeand Locality) completed last year for theArts and Humanities Research Council(AHRC). The AHRC were interested in research that looked at the relationship between access to the arts or environment, reducing health inequalities and the sustainability of this type of work...