Public Health Reports / September–October 2002 / Volume 117What Is a “Health Disparity”?With the launch of Healthy People 2010 in January 2000, the Department ofHealth and Human Services (DHHS) committed the nation to an overarchinggoal, to “eliminate health disparities.” 1 Like the ...
Evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in health is widespread. National and cross-national research has led to the development of a new set of methodological tools to address the challenges that the available data present. Several methods have been used in the literature to measure inequalities in ...
What is health?Health in unequal proportionsWhat does health inequality look like?Tackling health inequalitiesSocial context of women's lives from a national and global perspectiveEngaging vulnerable groupsWorking with others: improving accessThe way forward for the midwifery professionTools for change...
Galea, who has been studying health equity issues for a quarter century, uses this one: If one person is taller than another, that's an inequality that can't be fixed. However, if medicine is being kept on a high shelf that only tall people can reach, the solution involves equity. "...
It is no secret that having a primary care provider can improve the overall health of individuals and communities.Studiesshow that without access to a primary care provider, individuals are less likely to obtain preventive services, more likely to experience worse health outcomes, and are at a gr...
In the U.S., HealthyPeople.gov is a leading initiative designed to raise awareness about health disparities and ultimately improve health outcomes. Types of Health Disparities The term health care disparities refers to differences in the ability to access health care, utilize health care, or rece...
The usual answer is that the deal doesn’t create the inequality and forbidding the deal doesn’t reduce it. If you tell a rich person this is one thing he or she cannot buy, you are also telling a poor person that this is one thing he or she cannot sell. We can argue all day ...
What a video can teach you about sex 来自 ProQuest 喜欢 0 阅读量: 408 作者: Gutmann, Stephanie 摘要: Presents several sex videos. Includes `Arousal, Foreplay and Orgasm'; `Better Orgasms'; `Better Sexual Techniques.' 年份: 1996 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
Within the critical realist interpretation, the results point to a process of social exclusion. However, this interpretation, with its emphasis on objective reality, is contradicted by some local, subjective experiences of inequality and corruption. An alternative social constructionist interpretation of ...
Income Inequality as a Public Health Concern: Where Do We Stand? Commentary on "Is Exposure to Income Inequality a Public Health Concern?" Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, USA. SV Subramanian,T Blakely,I Kawachi - 《Health Services Research》 被引量:...