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Equity in health systems [PDF]
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2013 The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has experienced remarkable progress in terms of economic development and health outcomes, enjoying a relatively good position in the developing world context. Unfortunately, this apparent privileged position in terms of accomplishments is based on regional averages that hide troubling and persistent ...
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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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Electricity Tariff Design via Lens of Energy Justice [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) can significantly affect the net social benefit in power systems, raising concerns pertaining to distributive justice, equity, and fairness. Electricity tariff and DERs share a symbiotic relationship whereby the design of the former directly impacts the economic efficiency and equity in the system.
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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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A space--time varying coefficient model: The equity of service accessibility [PDF]
Annals of Applied Statistics 2011, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2024-2051, 2011 Research in examining the equity of service accessibility has emerged as economic and social equity advocates recognized that where people live influences their opportunities for economic development, access to quality health care and political participation.
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Systematic Design and Evaluation of Social Determinants of Health Ontology (SDoHO) [PDF]
, 2022 Social determinants of health (SDoH) have a significant impact on health outcomes and well-being. Addressing SDoH is the key to reducing healthcare inequalities and transforming a "sick care" system into a "health promoting" system. To address the SDOH terminology gap and better embed relevant elements in advanced biomedical informatics, we propose an ...
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Achieving Greater Health Equity: An Opportunity for Anesthesiology
Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2022 Anesthesiology and anesthesiologists have a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to eliminate health disparities and to achieve health equity. We thus examine health disparity and health equity through the lens of anesthesiology and the perspective ...
Mofya S. Diallo +3 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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From lab to life: how wearable devices can improve health equity
Nature CommunicationsWearable devices can provide personalised medicine at the point of need, potentially increasing access to health services and therefore improving health equity. Here the authors discuss their experiences developing wearable devices for vulnerable patient
Jessica R. Walter +2 more
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Centering Health Equity in Telemedicine
Annals of Family Medicine, 2022 In the wake of the racial injustices laid bare in 2020, on top of centuries of systemic racism, it is clear we need actionable strategies to fundamentally restructure health care systems to achieve racial/ethnic health equity.
C. Lyles +5 more
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