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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background Sex work criminalization and occupational stigma pose barriers to sex workers’ access to support services, including community participation — engagement with sex work specific community organizing at both formalized and grassroots capacities.
Jennie Pearson +6 more
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Advancing Health Equity Efforts to Reduce Obesity: Changing the Course
Annual review of nutrition, 2022 Population-based solutions are needed to stabilize and then reverse the continued upward trends in obesity prevalence in the US population and worldwide.
S. Kumanyika
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BMC Family Practice, 2021 Background There is increased recognition in clinical settings of the importance of documenting, understanding, and addressing patients’ social determinants of health (SDOH) to improve health and address health inequities. This study evaluated a pilot of
Rachel L. Berkowitz +8 more
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Multimorbidity and equity in health [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2013 Assessing the effects of multimorbidity (MM), the co-occurrence of several conditions, is contingent on the way it is measured [10, 11]. Current definitions usually apply an additive approach, summing chronic diseases out of predetermined lists [11].
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BMC Pediatrics, 2021 Background Depression in children presents a significant health burden to society and often co-exists with chronic illnesses, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Agnes Binagwaho +9 more
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Health Affairs, 2022 Definitions of disability have evolved over time. Consistent with the biopsychosocial model used by the World Health Organization, we conceptualize disability as an interaction between a person's functional impairments or chronic health conditions and ...
Monika Mitra +4 more
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Risk Equity: A New Proposal [PDF]
, 2007 What does distributive justice require of risk regulators? Various executive orders enjoin health and safety regulators to take account of “distributive impacts,” “equity,” or “environmental justice,” and many scholars endorse these requirements.
Adler, Matthew D.
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Critical Theory, Culture Change, and Achieving Health Equity in Health Care Settings
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2022 Achieving optimal health for all requires confronting the complex legacies of colonialism and white supremacy embedded in all institutions, including health care institutions.
Jelena Todic´ +6 more
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Defining equity in health [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2003 To propose a definition of health equity to guide operationalisation and measurement, and to discuss the practical importance of clarity in defining this concept.Conceptual discussion. Setting, Patients/Participants, and Main results: not applicable.For the purposes of measurement and operationalisation, equity in health is the absence of systematic ...
Braveman, P., Gruskin, S.
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BMJ, 2012 New WHO report examines the role that local government should play in Europe The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health brought the reduction of avoidable health inequalities between social groups to the centre of the political stage.1 Its three key recommendations—to improve daily living conditions; to tackle the inequitable distribution of
Hunter, D, Wilson, J
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