The effectiveness of class stigma in changing health behaviours is contested, as is the usefulness of youth as a category of analysis and hence the relevance of concerns about young people's e-cigarette use outside a class framework of smoking and cessation. With regard to health inequalities, ...
Even still, individual institutions can only do so much. Because these disparities are inextricably linked to broader societal inequalities, eliminating health inequities inpediatric cancer researchand treatment necessitates addressing the structural biases and systemic prejudices that underpin those sociopolitica...
How do social inequalities affect class and region in society? What are the trends and patterns in health and ill-health within class and region? Explain how inequalities of opportunity can impact the health and wellbeing of an individual. ...
Mental health is largely influenced by physiological and biological factors such as genetics and explained by demographic and socioeconomic attributes. Geographers have observed spatial inequalities in mental health at different geographical scales and acknowledged the importance of the geographical environment ...
Societal participation encompasses individual and collaborative activities aimed at influencing decisions that affect a person’s life. Engaging young
In any case, the development of policies that aim to address the socioeconomic and health inequalities should be an important focus (Sweeney et al., 2015). Limitations of the present study should be considered. Our data were based on a cross-sectional assessment, so we do not know the ...
The aim of this study was to explore the association between health care accessibility problems and ethnicity and how different levels of social support from family and friends affect this association. Methods: We used data from the cross-sectional HepaMeta study conducted in 2011 in Slovakia. The...
4. Oral healthcare is not affordable for many people and remains a sentinel of the ever-growing health inequalities gap13. Low socioeconomic status is associated with greater prevalence and severity of oral diseases. Caries and periodontal diseases are preventable, but the cost of accessing a dent...
Over the last few years, we've seen that rising temperatures and extreme weather events can significantly affect the health of people around the world.
It depends on how people in control of AI decide to use the technology. If it falls into the wrong hands, AI could be used to expose people’s personal information, spread misinformation and perpetuate social inequalities, among other malicious use cases. ...