socioeconomic factorshealth services accessibilitymortalityBackground: Despite enormous public sector expenditures, the effectiveness of universal coverage for health care in reducing socioeconomic disparities in health has received little attention. Study objectives: To evaluate whether universal coverage for ...
Although reducing the prevalence of health risk behaviors in low-income populations is an important public health goal, socioeconomic differences in mortality are due to a wider array of factors and, therefore, would persist even with improved health behaviors among the disadvantaged. 展开 ...
Various studies have enquired into the influence of socioeconomic development or public health measures on life expectancies in less developed countries. Analysis of the effect of these two groups of factors upon life expectancy, using data for 95 less developed countries, indicates that mortality is...
Factors associated with catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment were modelled using logistic regression analysis. Results The poor households in both slum and non-slum areas were at higher risk of experiencing catastrophic health expenditure, while only the poor households in slum areas were at...
The higher odds of HPV vaccine initiation for Hispanics and NHB boys from areas with high levels of poverty is likely a reflection of access to public health safety-net services, targeted community-based interventions [68,69,70], and an undercurrent of cultural factors that help to promote HPV...
"Health andhealth inequitiesare ultimately at the intersections of many different factors, from the macro to the micro. If we start segmenting them to focus solely on things at an institutional level, we're missing the bigger picture."
However, the same socioeconomic factors can potentially become a risk to public health. This study aimed to understand how socioeconomic factors of communities, such as income, education, and access to water and solubility facilities, affect the quality and safety of street food. Furthermore, we...
Heterogeneous factors influence social cognition across diverse settings in brain health and age-related diseases ArticleOpen access Introduction Ageing is associated with a dysfunction in a variety of cognitive (e.g., attention, memory, language) and executive (e.g., working memory, inhibition) doma...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global status report on non communicable diseases 2010[1] ranked the monitoring and surveillance of risk factors as a top priority to tackle growing NCD epidemics in low-resource settings. Increasingly, public health is turning to social determinants of health to...
Integrating tobacco control into health and development agendas. Tobacco use is one of the major risk factors for non-communicable diseases, with a profound impact on resource-poor low-income and middle-income countries ... KS Reddy,A Yadav,M Arora,... - 《Tobacco Control》 被引量: 30发表...