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German mammography screening program: program sensitivity between 2010 and 2016 estimated based on German health claims data

BMC Cancer, 2023
Background Program sensitivity is a key quality indicator for mammography screening programs (MSP). Estimating program sensitivity usually requires a linkage of screening and cancer registry data.
Franziska Heinze, Jonas Czwikla, Miriam Heinig, Ingo Langner, Ulrike Haug   +4 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., Popham, F., McMaster, R., Cumbers, A.   +3 more
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Strengthening and expanding health inequality monitoring for the advancement of health equity: a review of WHO resources and contributions

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
As part of its commitment to advance health equity, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a developed area of work to promote and strengthen health inequality monitoring.
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Katherine Kirkby, Anne Schlotheuber   +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., Roots, Ave, Rathmann, Katharina   +2 more
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Health Inequality Monitoring channel on OpenWHO: capacity strengthening through eLearning

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Health inequality monitoring can generate important evidence to inform and motivate changes to policy, programmes and practices. However, the potential of health inequality monitoring practices to quantify inequalities between population ...
Nicole Bergen, Katherine Kirkby, Andreia Baptista, Devaki Nambiar, Anne Schlotheuber, Cecilia Vidal Fuertes, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor   +6 more
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Health inequity in the UK: exploring health inequality and inequity

Practice Nursing, 2022
In this article, the first of two, Vanessa Heaslip et al examine the factors that lead to certain groups having poorer health outcomes in the UK Practice nurses are ideally placed within local communities to have a significant impact on addressing health inequities.
Heaslip, Vanessa, Thompson, R., Tauringana, M., Holland, S., Glendening, N.   +4 more
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Economic evaluation of health promotion interventions for older people: do applied economic studies meet the methodological challenges?

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2018
Background In the light of demographic developments health promotion interventions for older people are gaining importance. In addition to methodological challenges arising from the economic evaluation of health promotion interventions in general, there ...
Kai Huter, Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Ewa Kocot, Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Heinz Rothgang   +4 more
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Inequality and risk aversion in health and income: an empirical analysis using hypothetical scenarios with losses [PDF]

, 2013
Four kinds of distributional preferences are explored: inequality aversion in health, inequality aversion in income, risk aversion in health, and risk aversion in income.
Abásolo, I., Tsuchiya, A.
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Sex Representation in US Stroke Clinical Trials: A Decade of Trends and Challenges

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke remains a major cause of disability and mortality in the US, with significant sex‐based disparities, and females remain underrepresented in stroke clinical trials. We aimed to examine sex representation in US‐based stroke clinical trials, identify trial characteristics associated with higher female enrollment (≥ 50%), and ...
Chaitali Dagli, Mudasir Andrabi, Tova Cohen, Pranali G. Patel, Tapasya Katta, Chen Lin   +5 more
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Reducing Health Inequalities Implementation Theme. Briefing paper 1: Why health inequalities matter [PDF]

, 2009
This first briefing paper is an account of why health inequality matters and why health inequalities deserve consideration across all areas of CLAHRC (SY) activity.
Allmark, P. J., Salway, S.
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