Conversely, poor health can contribute to depression, substance abuse, and inactivity, perpetuating a vicious cycle that can ruin lives and contribute to healthcare costs. The impact of social determinants of health (SDoH), including lack of transportation or housing, unemployment, and discrimination,...
WHO (2013, 6) defines health inequities as “unjust differences in health between persons of different social groups and can be linked to forms of disadvantage such as poverty, discrimination and lack of access to services or goods”. They propose, since health inequity is a normative concept,...
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Frail people receiving home care services face an increased risk of developing crisis, which can result in adverse events, coercive measures, and acute institutionalisation. The prevalence of frailty is expected to increase due to the ageing population i
Akido likes to use the term mass personalization of care to describe the end goal. Better recordkeeping will mean more accurate analysis of a patient’s own history, and more efficient care. It can also eliminate medical discrimination, a serious issue, especially for patients of colo...
(in the USA and abroad) who collectively experience social, political, and economic marginalization, discrimination, and disproportionately lower SES. Indeed, as Shepherd and colleagues [13] argue, “scant attention has been paid to the potential moderating effect of Indigenous status on the SES-...
Such experiences neutralize groupthink and encourage more people to challenge the status quo, which is great for business. Korn Ferry research shows diverse teams make better decisions than homogenous ones 87% of the time, and are 70% more likely to succeed in new markets with new products. ...
For these new entrepreneurs, the key to starting their business off on the right foot was, in their own words, also their biggest challenge, “The biggest challenge was having a business model so to speak—or a blueprint and sticking to that blueprint. Eventually when we found our blueprin...
HR Audit. No one likes to hear that word – audit. Review. Evaluation. Analysis. No matter what word you use, negative thoughts start to fill your head. We challenge you, however, to look at this event as a chance to review and renew. A properly conducted HR Audit can (and shoul...
and a lack of continuity and practical support (Rayment-Jones et al., 2019). Many women experienced paternalistic care and discrimination from healthcare professionals and those who had a history of social care involvement often perceivedhealth careservices as a system of surveillance rather than sup...