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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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Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 The COVID-19 is disproportionally affecting the poor, minorities and a broad range of vulnerable populations, due to its inequitable spread in areas of dense population and limited mitigation capacity due to high prevalence of chronic conditions or poor ...
E. Shadmi +17 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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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background The deployment of Community Health Workers (CHWs) is widely promoted as a strategy for reducing health inequities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Yet there is limited evidence on whether and how CHW programmes achieve this.
Sonia Ahmed +9 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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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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Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2016 In national and international journals, dedication to the subject of social medicine and interrelated issues, such as health equity, social and cultural determinants in health and access to health care, is still rather simplistic. In a scenario of global crisis, Europe and Latin America are facing a time where they must rethink their respective health ...
Zélia Maria de Sousa Araújo Santos +2 more
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The Critical Role of Racial/Ethnic Data Disaggregation for Health Equity
Population: Research and Policy Review, 2021 Population-level health outcomes and measures of well-being are often described relative to broad racial/ethnic categories such as White or Caucasian; Black or African American; Latino or Hispanic; Asian American; Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander; or
Tina J. Kauh +3 more
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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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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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