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Poverty Re-Cycles: Why America Needs to Prioritize Child Health Disparities [PDF]
, 2015 When we think about children, we envision cute, innocent little people who have not a care in the world. Though optimistic, this vision is unfortunately not reality.
Gentry, Maria
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.We report the national burden of dermatopolymyositis mortality over the past quarter century using the US national vital statistics data. Age‐standardized mortality rates for dermatopolymyositis decreased at an annual rate of 3.8% each year, which was higher than the annual percent decrease for deaths from all other causes.
Elizabeth Matz, Ram R. Singh
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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality [PDF]
Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status,and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two.
Mausumi Das, Shankha Chakraborty
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Health Equity: Conceptual Models, Essential Aspects and the Perspective of Collective Health
Social MedicineThis paper analyzes the concept of health equity, drawing on ideas of social justice, of rights and values, and of the social and economic determinants which define living conditions and power relations among social groups.
Nivaldo Linares-Péreza +1 more
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Socioeconomic Factors and Health Status Disparities Associated with Difficulty in ADLs and IADLs among Long-Lived Populations in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Inquiry, 2021 Nóbrega JCL +14 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective This study examined the global and regional temporal changes in cross‐country inequalities of site‐specific osteoarthritis (OA) burden from 1990 to 2021. Methods Age‐standardized years lived with disability rates (ASYRs) for site‐specific OA across 204 countries and territories were obtained from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and ...
Haowei Chen +14 more
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Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied SciencesIntroduction: Oral health disparities persist between urban and rural populations, particularly among underserved communities. Geographic isolation, financial constraints, and lack of access to dental services contribute significantly to these ...
Digvijaysinh Parmar +6 more
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The impoverishing effect of adverse health events : evidence from the western Balkans [PDF]
This paper investigates the extent to which the health systems of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo) have succeeded in providing financial protection against adverse health events.
Bredenkamp, Caryn +2 more
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Long‐Term Opioids in Gout: A Matched Cohort Study From the Veterans Health Administration
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Though used frequently to treat flare, risk of long‐term opioid exposure in gout has not been well defined. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that people with gout are more likely than individuals without gout to be prescribed long‐term opioids over time.
Lindsay N. Helget +7 more
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The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians [PDF]
We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences in socio-economic factors, and examine the sensitivity
Alison Booth, Nick Carroll
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