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Inequality aversion, health inequalities and health achievement [PDF]

Journal of Health Economics, 2002
This paper addresses two issues. The first is how health inequalities can be measured in such a way as to take into account policymakers' attitudes towards inequality. The Gini coefficient and the related concentration index embody one particular set of value judgements.
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Socioeconomic and behavioural factors associated with access to and use of Personal Health Records

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021
Background Access to and use of digital technology are more common among people of more advantaged socioeconomic status. These differences might be due to lack of interest, not having physical access or having lower intentions to use this technology.
Ivana Paccoud, Michèle Baumann, Etienne Le Bihan, Benoît Pétré, Mareike Breinbauer, Philip Böhme, Louis Chauvel, Anja K. Leist   +7 more
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Differences in medical specialist utilization among older people in need of long-term care – results from German health claims data

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Elderly in need of long-term care tend to have worse health and have higher need of medical care than elderly without need for long-term care.
Maike Schulz, Jonas Czwikla, Chrysanthi Tsiasioti, Antje Schwinger, Daniel Gand, Guido Schmiemann, Annika Schmidt, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Stephan Kloep, Franziska Heinze, Heinz Rothgang   +10 more
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Working to Reduce Poverty: A National Subsidized Employment Proposal

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2018
Subsidized employment programs that increase labor supply and demand are a proven, underutilized strategy for reducing poverty in the short and long term.
Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Kali Grant, Julie Kerksick, Dan Bloom, Ajay Chaudry   +4 more
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Digital technology and nursing care: a scoping review on acceptance, effectiveness and efficiency studies of informal and formal care technologies

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background The existence, usage and benefits of digital technologies in nursing care are relevant topics in the light of the current discussion on technologies as possible solutions to problems such as the shortage of skilled workers and the increasing ...
Tobias Krick, Kai Huter, Dominik Domhoff, Annika Schmidt, Heinz Rothgang, Karin Wolf-Ostermann   +5 more
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Measuring the effectiveness of digital nursing technologies: development of a comprehensive digital nursing technology outcome framework based on a scoping review

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Digital nursing technologies (DNT) comprise an expanding, highly diverse field of research, explored using a wide variety of methods and tools.
Tobias Krick, Kai Huter, Kathrin Seibert, Dominik Domhoff, Karin Wolf-Ostermann   +4 more
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Health inequalities [PDF]

International Psychiatry, 2006
The association between mental illness and poor physical health has been known for decades (Philips, 1934). This is not a trivial relationship between mental ill health and minor physical problems but an association with such poor physical health that it results in premature death.
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Risk of stress/depression and functional impairment in Denmark immediately following a COVID-19 shutdown

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Existing estimates of the impact of the COVID-19 burden on mental wellbeing come from countries with high mortality rates. This study therefore aimed to investigate the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown (March–April 2020) on risk for ...
Lars H. Andersen, Peter Fallesen, Tim A. Bruckner   +2 more
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Biology and health inequality. [PDF]

, 2007
Intriguing parallels between civil servant and nonhuman primate hierarchies suggest that highly stratified societies foster health inequalities. Determining how social differences translate into chronic disease remains a challenge, but neuroendocrine ...
Brunner, E
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Constructing democratic participation in welfare transitions: An analysis of narrative interactions

Health Expectations, 2020
Objective This article provides insights into the democratic character of local enactments of welfare reforms by analysing narrative interactions about changes in care.
Mare Knibbe, Klasien Horstman
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