Poverty is a public health issue.Opinion. Presents the author's view on democracy, constitutional government and organic opportunity as bases of the strength and relative stability of Western democracies. Content of the report of the Joint Center for political and economic studies; Why poverty is ...
(KNUS), this represents a challenge to the public health sector not only to acknowledge the pervasiveness of urban poverty as a critical pathway to ill health and health inequities, but to address this as an urgent public health issue affecting a billion people living in informal settlements, ...
To confront the health crisis that currently threatens poor and minority communities in the US, economic justice must be explicitly acknowledged as a public health issue, alongside more traditional concerns such as access to care, immunization, vector control, and behaviour modification. It will be ...
Moreover, the minority stress theory indicates that LGBT mental health difficulties are largely due to chronic exposure to stigma and discrimination in their social communities that gives rise to stressors and stress processes as the main contributing factors to psychological distress (Meyer,2003). It...
In the past, Americans have looked to education as a means of breaking the seemingly endless cycle of poverty. But rather than having experienced a facilitated transition to the middle class, less-advantaged children are twice as likely to be held back and often fail to complete their ...
These goals are rooted in the “capabilities approach” and highlight the importance of fostering environments that support 3 core domains: health, basic education, and income. Here, we analyze what the global special issue contributed. As a whole the global special issue provided an account of ...
achieving Universal Health Coverage and the SDGs. It therefore welcomes articles that provide evidence of its wide impact on public health and beyond, on addressing inequities, on the cost-effectiveness of integrated implementation and resulting efficiency gains, underscoring its value as a global good...
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This article examines the problems of representation in development advertising and explores its evolution over a six-year time period using an ideological analysis of select communications materials produced by three child sponsorship organizations. It then proposes framing theory as one possibility for ...