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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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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 +2 more
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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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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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Trials, 2022 Background The generalizability of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with a low response can be limited by systematic differences between participants and nonparticipants.
Jonas Czwikla +7 more
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Striving to Belong: Everyday Enactments of Belonging among Older Adults in Greenland
Anthropology & Aging, 2023 In this article, we explore the particularities of belonging in old age for older adults living in Uummannaq in Northern Greenland. Through analysis of in-depth interviews and conversations, we investigate older adults’ relations to others and to places,
Mette Mørup Schlütter, Tenna Jensen
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Nursing home residents have high medical care needs. Their medical care utilization is, however, lower compared to community-dwelling elderly and varies widely among nursing homes. This study quantified the utilization of general practitioners
Jonas Czwikla +9 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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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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Injury Prevention, 1999 In July 1997, shortly after the election of the new Labour government in the UK, the Secretary of State for Health asked Sir Donald Acheson, the recently retired Chief Medical Officer, to head an inquiry into inequalities in health in England and identify priority areas for policies to reduce inequalities.
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