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Health, Health Care and Health Disparities

2017
Understand medicine as a social institution. Understand the causes and consequences of health disparities by race, class, and gender. Understand the causes and consequences of health care disparities by race, class and gender.
Ginny Garcia-Alexander, Hyeyoung Woo, Matthew J. Carlson   +2 more
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One Health, Global Health e Planetary Health

SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Over the past two decades, the ecological approach to health has emphasized the interconnectedness between human health, biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, and socioeconomic conditions. As these systems are deeply interlinked, social and environmental justice must be considered interdependent, since crises in one area have the potential to impact other
Romizi Roberto, Gianotti Claudio, Stocco Alice   +2 more
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HEALTH MANAGERS AND HEALTH REFORM

Journal of Management & Organization, 2012
Abstract This qualitative study was undertaken with a diverse sample of Australian health managers to examine their perceptions regarding the health system and to understand how they learned to become health managers. The findings showed that they viewed the health system as one of constant change, mostly non-adaptive, and a system of
David Briggs, Mary Cruickshank, Penny Paliadelis   +2 more
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No health without mental health

The Lancet, 2007
About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common mental disorders, alcohol-use and substance-use disorders, and psychoses. Such estimates have drawn attention to the importance of mental disorders for public health. However, because
Prince M, Patel V, Saxena S, MAJ, Mario, Maselko J, Phillips M, Rahman A.   +6 more
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Psychology, Health and Health Care

Psychology & Health, 1990
Abstract This article traces the development of the World Health Organization's emphasis on psychological and behavioural factors in health and notes its encouragement of recognition of these factors by member states. The article further outlines the reasons for this increasing recognition and stresses the important role of psychological and ...
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Health Literacy and Health Policy

Academic Pediatrics, 2012
From the Departments of Pediatrics, Clinical Nursing, and the Center for Community Health, University of Rochester Medical Center (Dr Shone), Rochester, NY Address correspondence to Laura P. Shone, DrPH, MSW, Departments of Pediatrics, Clinical Nursing, and the Center for Community Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box
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Health Insurance Is Not Health Care

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2014
Thanks to theAffordableCareAct (ACA), low-incomeAmericans (thoseearning less than 139%of the federal poverty level) living in 25 states and theDistrict of Columbia gained eligibility to Medicaid on January 1, 2014.1 The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2022 there will be 12 mill ion new enrollees into Medicaid.2 Although this is ...
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Health, Health Indicators, and Public Health

2017
Visions of health are: monocausal medical vision, psychological, biological, and social vision, and increasingly important, multicausal and multifactorial vision. A tricky concept in the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health (1948) is “well-being.” The humane approach to health is pitched against the classical, medical approach.
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Health policy: in sickness and in health

2020
The focus in this chapter is on characterizing the nature of recent health policy initiatives and exploring the interplay of powerful structural interest groups which influence the shape of these policies. This chapter is made up of two parts, focusing initially on health service systems, particularly the National Health Service (NHS) in England ...
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Health, health promotion and the elderly

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 1996
Summary Health promotion is a mode of practice which is being increasingly examined by policymakers (DHSS, 1987; DoH, 1992). Although practitioners are being required to screen people over 75 years of age and are exhorted to reduce accidents in the elderly by 33% between 1990 and 2005 (DoH, 1992), there is evidence that they do not value this sort of ...
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