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Employment status and income as potential mediators of educational inequalities in population mental health [PDF]

, 2016
We assessed whether educational inequalities in mental health may be mediated by employment status and household income. Poor mental health was assessed using General Health Questionnaire ‘caseness’ in working age adult participants (N = 48 654) of the ...
Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal, Niedzwiedz, Claire L., Popham, Frank   +2 more
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Gender variations in the relationship between social capital and mental health outcomes among the Indigenous populations of Canada

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background In this paper we examine the relationship between social capital and two mental health outcomes—self-rated mental health (SRMH) and heavy episodic drinking (HED)—among the Indigenous populations of Canada. We operationalize a unique definition
Alexander Levesque, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée   +1 more
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Linking families with pre-school children from healthcare services to community resources: a systematic review protocol [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Poor health and health inequalities persist despite increasing investment in health improvement programmes across high-income countries. Evidence suggests that to reduce health inequalities, a range of activities targeted at different ...
Burns, Jacky, Conway, David I., Gnich, Wendy, Macpherson, Lorna M.D.   +3 more
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Health & nature: a critical review of historical perspectives to support narratives for change

International Journal for Equity in Health
Introduction The ongoing ecosocial crisis threatens the health of our planet, as ecological boundaries are overreached and social needs remain unmet. Achieving health equity and sustainable development requires re-evaluating the interconnections between ...
Miquel Amengual-Moreno, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Laila Vivas, Eliana Martínez-Herrera, Adrián Almazán, Juan M. Pericàs, Joan Benach   +6 more
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Descriptive analysis of the implementation of the program “Prevention 40 PLUS” in Poland, July 2021–December 2024

European Journal of Health Policy, Humanization of Care and Medical Ethics
The prevention and early detection of diseases through screening are key public health actions. The program “Prevention 40 PLUS” was a population-based screening program for adults aged 40 and over, available from July 2021 and April 2025.
Radosław Sierpiński, Igor Kilanowski
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Advancing successful implementation of task-shifted mental health care in low-resource settings (BASIC): protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background The mental health treatment gap—the difference between those with mental health need and those who receive treatment—is high in low- and middle-income countries.
Shannon Dorsey, Christine L. Gray, Augustine I. Wasonga, Cyrilla Amanya, Bryan J. Weiner, C. Micha Belden, Prerna Martin, Rosemary D. Meza, Andrew K. Weinhold, Caroline Soi, Laura K. Murray, Leah Lucid, Elizabeth L. Turner, Robyn Mildon, Kathryn Whetten   +14 more
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The health consequences of informal employment among female workers and their children: a systematic review

Globalization and Health, 2023
Background Informal employment is unprotected and unregistered and it is often characterized by precarious working arrangements. Although being a global phenomenon and the most common type of employment worldwide, scholarly attention to its health ...
Amanda Emma Aronsson, Pilar Vidaurre-Teixidó, Magnus Rom Jensen, Solvor Solhaug, Courtney McNamara   +4 more
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Measuring and decomposing inequity in self-reported morbidity and self-assessed health in Thailand [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND In recent years, interest in the study of inequalities in health has not stopped at quantifying their magnitude; explaining the sources of inequalities has also become of great importance.
Carmichael, Gordon, Lim, Lynette, Sidorenko, Alexandra, Sleigh, Adrian, Yiengprugsawan, Vasoontara   +4 more
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Law, human rights and gender in practice: an analysis of lessons from implementation of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Self-care interventions for health are becoming increasingly available, and among the preferred options, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laura Ferguson, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Jose Gutierrez, William Jardell, Sofia Gruskin   +4 more
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Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain [PDF]

, 2009
Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based on a comparison of health care policies and, as such, only tell part of a ...
Blackman, Tim, Elliott, Eva, Greene, Alex, Harrington, Barbara, Hunter, David J., Marks, Linda, McKee, Lorna, Smith, Kat, Williams, Gareth   +8 more
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