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What would it take to eradicate health inequalities? Testing the fundamental causes theory of health inequalities in Scotland

, 2013
This report warns that efforts to reduce Scotland's health inequalities gap will fail unless they tackle the fundamental causes of poor health.<p></p> The study looked at 30 years of health inequality trends in Scotland and the rise and ...
Mitchell, R., Robinson, M., Curnock, E., Taulbut, M., McCartney, G., Tod, E., Scott, S.   +6 more
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Mind the Gap: Understanding Differences Between Sexual and Reproductive Health-Related Legal Frameworks on Paper and in Practice

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2022
IntroductionUNFPA recently developed a composite indicator to assess sexual and reproductive health (SRH)-related laws as part of the Sustainable Development Goals monitoring framework (Indicator 5.6.2).
Laura Ferguson, William Jardell, Miles Lambert-Peck, Lillie Guo, Sophia Lopez, Violeta Canaves, Emilie Filmer-Wilson   +6 more
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The Selah study protocol of three interventions to manage stress among clergy: a preference-based randomized waitlist control trial

Trials, 2021
Introduction Like many helping professionals in emotional labor occupations, clergy experience high rates of mental and physical comorbidities. Regular stress management practices may reduce stress-related symptoms and morbidity, but more research is ...
Logan C. Tice, David E. Eagle, Joshua A. Rash, Jessie S. Larkins, Sofia M. Labrecque, Alyssa Platt, Jia Yao, Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell   +7 more
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Life Satisfaction and mobility: Their associations with career attitudes, and health-related factors among postgraduates having studied in universities intra EU and outside EU

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background University postgraduates’ mobility towards, and outside the EU is continuously increasing, creating a competitive context in which maintaining a high life satisfaction (LS) is a public health challenge. However, the relationship between LS and
Angela Odero, Louis Chauvel, Anne Hartung, Etienne le Bihan, Michèle Baumann   +4 more
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Educational inequalities in adult mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the Asia Pacific region

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives In this study, we aim to analyse the relationship between educational attainment and all-cause mortality of adults in the high-income Asia Pacific region.Design This study is a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis with no language
Talal Mohammad, Magnus Rom Jensen, Emmanuela Gakidou, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Kathryn Christine Beck, Mirza Balaj, Lorena Donadello, Hanne Dahl Vonen, Claire Degail, Kristoffer Eikemo, Anna Giouleka, Indrit Gradeci, Celine Westby, Kam Sripada, Solvor Solhaug   +14 more
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Why and how has the United Kingdom become a high producer of health inequalities research over the past 50 years? A realist explanatory case study

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023
Background Evidence on health inequalities has been growing over the past few decades, yet the capacity to produce research on health inequalities varies between countries worldwide and needs to be strengthened.
Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Eliana Martinez-Herrera, Joan Benach   +2 more
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The influence of immigrant background and parental education on overweight and obesity in 8-year-old children in Norway

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Little is known about the prevalence of overweight/obesity and socio-economic position (SEP) in children with immigrant background in Scandinavia.
B. Øvrebø, M. Kjøllesdal, T. H. Stea, A. K. Wills, E. Bere, P. Magnus, P. B. Juliusson, I. H. Bergh   +7 more
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The impact of professional midwives and mentoring on the quality and availability of maternity care in government sub-district hospitals in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods observational study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background This study compared government sub-district hospitals in Bangladesh without globally standard midwives, with those with recently introduced midwives, both with and without facility mentoring, to see if the introduction of midwives was ...
Rondi Anderson, Anna Williams, Nicole Jess, Jonathan M. Read, Mark Limmer   +4 more
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Best Practice Guidelines for Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Status: Lessons from Scotland [PDF]

, 2011
Context: In this article we present "best practice" guidelines for monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health status in the general population, using routinely collected data.
Frank, John W, Haw, Sally, Frank, John; id_orcid   +2 more
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The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Europe

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2020
Background While the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become increasingly popular in western societies, we do not understand why CAM use is more frequent in some countries than in others.
Erlend L. Fjær, Erling R. Landet, Courtney L. McNamara, Terje A. Eikemo   +3 more
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