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Health Inequalities [PDF]

open access: yesHastings Center Report, 2020
AbstractHealth inequalities are embedded in a complex array of social, political, and economic inequalities. Responding to health inequalities will require systematic action targeting all the underlying (“upstream”) social determinants that powerfully affect health and well‐being. Systemic inequalities are a major reason for the rise of modern populism
Gostin, Lawrence O., Friedman, Eric A.
openaire   +3 more sources

An Empirical Examination of the Inequality of Forgone Care in India

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2021
Understanding how well a health system is meeting the needs of the population is critical to achieving the policy aspirations of universal health coverage.
Bryan Patenaude   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2019
BackgroundRecently WHO researchers described seven dimensions of mistreatment in maternity care that have adverse impacts on quality and safety. Applying the WHO framework for quality care, service users partnered with NGOs, clinicians, and researchers ...
S. Vedam   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 and the other pandemic: populations made vulnerable by systemic inequity

open access: yesNature reviews: Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2020
Greater than the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, systemic inequity in social determinants of health is the pandemic that has long fostered vulnerability to disease and poor health outcomes in the USA.
Darrell M. Gray   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dimensions of Thermal Inequity: Neighborhood Social Demographics and Urban Heat in the Southwestern U.S.

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Exposure to heat is a growing public health concern as climate change accelerates worldwide. Different socioeconomic and racial groups often face unequal exposure to heat as well as increased heat-related sickness, mortality, and energy costs. We provide
J. Dialesandro   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

E-Assessment, Inequity and Accountability in the New Normal Era and Beyond in Nigerian Universities

open access: yesJournal of Digital Learning and Education, 2021
The study examined the perceived conduct of e-assessment of undergraduate courses in Nigerian universities and compared access to e-assessment among undergraduate students in universities in the country.
Abdul-Wahab Ibrahim, Abdullahi Iliyasu
doaj   +1 more source

The trends of socioeconomic inequities in full vaccination coverage among children aged 12–23 months from 2000 to 2017: evidence for mitigating disparities in vaccination service in Zhejiang province

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Objective This study aimed to evaluate the trends and changes in inequities in the completeness of the primary vaccination (CPV) scheduled before the first year of age among children aged 12–23 months, from 2000 to 2017. Methods: Data were extracted from
Yu Hu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Racism: The Rules and Relations of Inequity.

open access: yesEthnicity & Disease, 2021
Why do racial inequalities endure despite numerous attempts to expand civil rights in certain sectors? A major reason for this endurance is due to lack of attention to structural racism.
G. Gee, M. Hicken
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Economic Argument for Engagement: New Directions for Research

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2016
What is the economic argument for public engagement? Around the world, public officials and other leaders have devised new ways to engage citizens in decision-making and problem-solving – but typically they have focused on planning, budgeting, and ...
Matt Leighninger
doaj   +2 more sources

Newly diagnosed HIV and use of HIV-PrEP among non-western born MSM attending STI clinics in the Netherlands: a large retrospective cohort study

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionThe World Health Organization recommends HIV-PrEP for all people at risk for HIV infection, which includes men who have sex with men (MSM). Substantial part of new HIV diagnoses in the Netherlands are in non-western born MSM.
Ymke J. Evers   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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