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Health equity monitoring is essential in public health: lessons from Mozambique

Globalization and Health, 2019
Background Countries must be able to describe and monitor their populations health and well-being needs in an attempt to understand and address them. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have re-emphasized the need to invest in comprehensive health ...
Alba Llop-Gironés, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Sergio Chicumbe, Francesc Alvarez, Ivan Zahinos, Elisio Mazive, Joan Benach   +6 more
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Employment and working conditions of nurses: where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Human Resources for Health, 2021
Background Nurses and midwives play a critical role in the provision of care and the optimization of health services resources worldwide, which is particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, they can only provide quality services
Alba Llop-Gironés, Ana Vračar, Gisela Llop-Gironés, Joan Benach, Livia Angeli-Silva, Lucero Jaimez, Pramila Thapa, Ramesh Bhatta, Santosh Mahindrakar, Sara Bontempo Scavo, Sonia Nar Devi, Susana Barria, Susana Marcos Alonso, Mireia Julià   +13 more
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Certificate of need laws: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Certificate of Need (CON) laws, currently in place in 35 US states, require certain health care providers to obtain a certification of their economic necessity from a state board before opening or undertaking a major expansion.
Christopher J. Conover, James Bailey
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A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2020
Background Despite increasing evidence on health inequalities over the past decades, further efforts to strengthen capacities to produce research on this topic are still urgently needed to inform effective interventions aiming to address these ...
Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Matthew Harris, Germán Guerra, Joan Benach   +3 more
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Key epidemiological indicators and spatial autocorrelation patterns across five waves of COVID-19 in Catalonia

Scientific Reports, 2023
This research studies the evolution of COVID-19 crude incident rates, effective reproduction number R(t) and their relationship with incidence spatial autocorrelation patterns in the 19 months following the disease outbreak in Catalonia (Spain).
Francesc Belvis, Alberto Aleta, Álvaro Padilla-Pozo, Juan-M. Pericàs, Juan Fernández-Gracia, Jorge P. Rodríguez, Víctor M. Eguíluz, Charles Novaes De Santana, Mireia Julià, Joan Benach, the COVID-SHINE group   +10 more
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Laws governing access to sexual health services and information: contents, protections, and restrictions

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
Access to sexual health services and information is critical to achieving the highest attainable standard of sexual health, and enabling legal environments are key to advancing progress in this area.
Laura Ferguson, Sarah Emoto, Sofia Gruskin   +2 more
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Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study

SSM: Population Health, 2016
Since 2010, the UK has pursued a policy of austerity characterised by public spending cuts and welfare changes. There has been speculation – but little actual research – about the effects of this policy on health inequalities.
K. Mattheys, C. Bambra, J. Warren, A. Kasim, N. Akhter   +4 more
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Probabilities of ICU admission and hospital discharge according to patient characteristics in the designated COVID-19 hospital of Kuwait

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Subsequent epidemic waves have already emerged in many countries and in the absence of highly effective preventive and curative options, the role of patient characteristics on the development of outcomes needs to be thoroughly examined ...
Dimitra-Kleio Kipourou, Clémence Leyrat, Nourah Alsheridah, Sulaiman Almazeedi, Sarah Al-Youha, Mohammad H. Jamal, Mohannad Al-Haddad, Salman Al-Sabah, Bernard Rachet, Aurélien Belot   +9 more
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Multidisciplinary team meetings in cancer care: is there a psychologist in the house?

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are considered best practice in the management and decision-making for cancer patients. The team typically consists of surgeons, medical oncologists, organ specialists, radiologists, pathologists and ...
Melissa Horlait, Sophie Dhaene, Simon Van Belle, Mark Leys   +3 more
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Representing Neighborhood Health: Exploring Citizen Science as a Democratic Force

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
In discussions about citizen science (CS), scholars have considered CS as not only a tool to produce better science, but also a democratizing practice allowing for new definitions of public problems. Inspired by science and technology studies, we present
Sanne Raap, Mare Knibbe, Klasien Horstman   +2 more
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