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Social determinants of health inequalities [PDF]
, 2005 The gross inequalities in health that we see within and between countries present a challenge to the world. That there should be a spread of life expectancy of 48 years among countries and 20 years or more within countries is not inevitable. A burgeoning
Marmot, M
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BMJ, 1994 EDITOR, - Peter Phillimore and colleagues described at widening gap in the mortality ratios between the most and least deprived electoral wards in the Northern region.1 Both groups of wards showed a fall in mortality from 1981 to 1991, but the fall was greater in the richer wards.
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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 +6 more
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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 +13 more
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Health Inequalities in Europe: Setting the Stage for Progressive Policy Action [PDF]
, 2018 While the health of Europeans has improved over recent years, differences by gender, birthplace, and/or socioeconomic background persist. This report maps the extent of such health inequalities, its determinants, and costs to society.
Bambra, Clare +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Defining health and health inequalities [PDF]
Public Health, 2019 To examine existing definitions of health and health inequalities and to synthesise the most useful of these using explicit rationale and the most parsimonious text.Literature review and synthesis.Existing definitions of health and health inequalities were identified, and their normative properties were extracted and then critically appraised.
McCartney, G. +3 more
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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 +10 more
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Health Outcomes and Health Inequalities
, 2021 Abstract This chapter explains concepts and empirical variation regarding health outcomes, access to healthcare, and health inequalities. Access to healthcare is highlighted as a potential mediator or transition point linking characteristics of the broader policy context to health outcomes and their distribution across population groups.
Schneider, Simone M. +2 more
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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 +9 more
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