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...
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 ...
Understanding Health Inequality Chapter © 2024 1 Introduction This book has considered numerous non-communicable diseases and health problems and has described the importance of the “social determinants of health” (SDH), based on the findings of research from Japan and other countries. Even in ...
AI in healthcare AI is applied to a range of tasks in the healthcare domain, with the overarching goals of improving patient outcomes and reducing systemic costs. One major application is the use of machine learning models trained on large medical data sets to assist healthcare professionals in...
The affordability of healthy, nutritious food is also a concern. In 2019, high costs, coupled with income inequality, meant healthy diets were out of the question for about three billion people globally. The major drivers of food insecurity includedconflict, climate variability and extremes, plus ...
Poverty status in the U.S. is assigned to people whose income falls under a certain threshold, which is set by theDepartment of Health and Human Services (HHS).2U.S. poverty rates, or the percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty, are calculated by the U.S.Census Bureau.3...
Today, the Internet serves as an important platform for education, business, social life, and healthcare. How does it work? How Does the Internet Work? The internet operates as an integrated network of networks, utilizing interconnected devices, routers, and servers to circulate global information...
Several methods have been used in the literature to measure inequalities in health; the concentration index approach is becoming widely used. In the future, the research agenda will continue to shift away from documenting health inequalities toward efforts to support the development of policies to ...
In this paper, I argue that the health care inequality that inevitably will follow from the adoption of genetic technology, while posing a challenge to provide as long as possible for genetic interventions for all, is hardly a reason to reject the new technology. In that case, we would have...
“good sex” in youth, education and health institutional settings. The research suggests that there is a range of sexual experiences that young people consider to be “good” that may not necessarily enhance their “wellbeing” or promote safer sexual practices. This raises questions about how ...