The social basis of disparities in health. Challenging inequities in health: from ethics to action, vol. 1; 2001. p. 12–23. Book Google Scholar Lin Y, Zhang Q, Chen W, Ling L. The social income inequality, social integration and health status of internal migrants in China. Int J ...
social identitysocial inequalitiesInequalities in health behaviours (i.e., the tendency of socially disadvantaged people, compared to more advantaged people, to engage in fewer healthy behaviours) have been mostly accounted for by individual and environmental factors. The present research proposed to ...
CF is thus an interesting case conceptually for the study of pathways to inequalities in health: as a disease of autosomal recessive inheritance where carriers are unaffected, there is no social bias in incidence (Fig.5.1), but there is potential for a social gradient in health care use, dise...
Steven Ross JohnsonFeb. 26, 2025 Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases Health officials expect a measles outbreak in West Texas to exceed 100 cases because of low vaccine rates and undetected infections. Vaccine misinformation and new laws may make such situations more common and harder to contain...
Internal migrants in China have long been at a disadvantage in terms of access to publicly financed services, as well as the utilization of public health services. The aim of the study was to examine inequities in the use of basic public health services between internal migrants and the local...
This study examines racial/ethnic disparities in self-rated health and their underlying social bases. Using a series of nested models and data on 24,767 individuals from the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (Roper Center 2006), we assess initial differences among blacks, Latinos, ...
Although strong, multinational consensus has been reached on the power and pervasiveness of epidemiologic findings in linking early experience to lifelong disparities in health development and health, urgent and challenging new research questions remain. Among these are the following: ...
Health Disparities: Physical Health Social Class Not only do the poor have less money, but they also have much worse health, as the news story that began this chapter illustrated. There is growing recognition in the government and in medical and academic communities that social class makes...
Health disparities between regions with different levels of income are undeniable, but special care programs aimed at the early identification and management of patients at risk can greatly decrease the magnitude of the problem. Rasha Shemies World View29 Aug 2024 Nature Reviews Nephrology The ...
will worsen in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, due in large part to increased social isolation. The 2019 Healthiest Communities rankings assess nearly 3,000 U.S. counties and county equivalents across 81 factors that can contribute to the overall health of a community and its resident...