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Health Workforce for Health Equity

open access: yesMedical Care, 2021
Anushree Vichare   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

How can communities and organisations improve their health literacy?

open access: yesPublic Health Research & Practice, 2018
Definitions of health literacy have tended to focus on the abilities of patients and communities, rather than on the ability of the health system and its services to respond to patients’ different levels of health literacy.
Jane Lloyd   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Equity - some theory and its policy implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This essay seeks to characterise the essential features of an equitable health care system in terms of the classical Aristotelian concepts of horizontal and vertical equity, the common (but ill-defined) language of “need” and the economic notion of cost ...
Culyer, A.J.
core   +2 more sources

Do Sustainable Agricultural Practices Boost Production and Technical Efficiency? A Case Study of Coffee Smallholders in Peru

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder agriculture remains a cornerstone for economic development and poverty reduction in Latin America. Their transition to sustainable agricultural production is critical in the face of the environmental challenges posed by conventional farming practices and is a key pathway to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development ...
Gabriela Carbajo‐Alvarez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospital admissions due to alcohol related disorders among young adult refugees who arrived in Sweden as teenagers – a national cohort study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background Psychological distress and lack of family support may explain the mental health problems that are consistently found in young unaccompanied refugees in Western countries.
Hélio Manhica   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
BackgroundEliminating indigenous and ethnic health inequities requires addressing the determinants of health inequities which includes institutionalised racism, and ensuring a health care system that delivers appropriate and equitable care.
E. Curtis   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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