Low-income populationHealth status disparitiesHealthy lifestyleBackground Childhood obesity represents a global public health crisis: the number of obese children and adolescents (aged 5–19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. The vast majority of overweight and obese ...
While the outcomes of health care reform are relevant to all Canadians, government decisions affecting the cost, delivery, and access to health care services have particularly significant implications for low-income Canadians. People living with low incomes are less healthy and have more medical condit...
The findings suggest that income-based disparities are present even in countries with universalhealth careand robust social services, the researchers said. The paper, published in the journalJAMA, was a project of the International Health System Research Collaborative, an effort dedicated to understandin...
Low-income populations are at a disproportionately high risk for various physical and emotional disorders. One factor that has received little attention in its link to health among low-income groups is dispositional mindfulness. Dispositional mindfulness has been associated with better health in college ...
Health in Low-Income Countries - ScienceDirect In the 12years since publication of the previous issue of this volume, the world has changed significantly. In addition to further widening of many of the disparities in health previously described, the impact and implications of the sti... SR Bena...
摘要: Purpose of Review The burden of breast cancer in low-income and middle-income countries transitioning to higher levels of human development is a public health crisis, set to increase dramatically in...关键词: Breast cancer Cancer disparities Health systems Cost-effectiveness Health economics ...
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) data are used to track population trends, identify health disparities, and monitor progress in achieving national health objectives for 2010. Low-income (i.e., annual household income of or =55 years have substantially more unhealthy days than low-income ad...
Health, behavior, and health care disparities: disentangling the effects of income and race in the United States. The literature on health disparities in the United States typically focuses on race/ethnicity or on socioeconomic status (SES) separately, but not often to... C Lisa,Dubay,A Lydie...
including the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schooling, across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017. Previous analyses have focused on geographical disparities in average attainment across Africa or for specific countries, but—to our knowledge—no analysi...
Mortality disparities between Black and White Americans mediated by income and health behaviors. SSM Popul Health. 2021;17:101019. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.101019 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 12. Ostchega Y, Fryar CD, Nwankwo T, Nguyen DT. Hypertension prevalence among...