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Equity and health [PDF]

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2000
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Health Equity Series: Food Insecurity December 2015 [PDF]

, 2016
In order to address health equity, it is important to acknowledge the factors that create inequitable health outcomes, such as socioeconomic factors and other inequalities related to race and gender. Although individual responsibility and personal health
Cindy Calender, Ryan Barker
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Equity of Inpatient Health Care in Rural Tanzania:\ud A Population- and Facility-Based Survey [PDF]

, 2012
To explore the equity of utilization of inpatient health care at rural Tanzanian health centers through the use of a short wealth questionnaire.Methods: Patients admitted to four rural health centers in the Kigoma Region of Tanzania from May 2008 to May ...
Dickson, R., Sean, Ferry, A., Grace, Freedman, P. , Lynn, Kruk, E., Margaret, Mbaruku, Godfrey   +4 more
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Social and Health Equity: Adopting an Alberta Social Determinants of Health Framework [PDF]

, 2005
This discussion paper highlights the well-documented social factors that influence our health. In a time when the Alberta government is looking for the best innovative ideas around health care, we suggest that a social determinants approach would lead to
Philip O'Hara
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

City versus Countryside: Environmental Equity in Context [PDF]

, 1994
This Article takes an approach to the problem of environmental equity that is different from the remedies advocated by the leaders of the environmental equity movement.
Tarlock, A. Dan
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Growing inequities by immigration group among older adults: population-based analysis of access to primary care and return to in-person visits during the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia, Canada

BMC Primary Care
Background The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drove a rapid and widespread shift to virtual care, followed by a gradual return to in-person visits. Virtual visits may offer more convenient access to care for some, but others may experience challenges ...
Cecilia Sierra-Heredia, Elmira Tayyar, Yasmin Bozorgi, Padmini Thakore, Selamawit Hagos, Ruth Carrillo, Stefanie Machado, Sandra Peterson, Shira Goldenberg, Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, M Ruth Lavergne   +10 more
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Shared learning in an interconnected world: innovations to advance global health equity [PDF]

, 2013
Agnès Binagwaho, Cameron T. Nutt, Vincent Mutabazi, Corine Karema, Sabin Nsanzimana, Michel Gasana, Peter Drobac, Michael Rich, Parfait Uwaliraye, Jean Pierre Nyemazi, M.R. Murphy, Claire Wagner, Andrew Makaka, Hinda Ruton, Gita N. Mody, Danielle R. Zurovcik, Jonathan A. Niconchuk, Cathy Mugeni, Fidèle Ngabo, Jean de Dieu Ngirabega, Anita Asiimwe, Paul E. Farmer   +21 more
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