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Advocating for agricultural education: A mixed methods examination on the role of opinion leadership on teachers’ advocacy intentions

Advancements in Agricultural Development
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to describe the role of opinion leadership on Louisiana teachers’ intentions to advocate for agricultural education.
Benita Komunjeru, Whitney L. Figland-Cook, Jacob Englin, Richie Roberts   +3 more
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Assessing national and subnational inequalities in medical care utilization and financial risk protection in Rwanda

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Ensuring equitable access to medical care with financial risk protection has been at the center of achieving universal health coverage. In this paper, we assess the levels and trends of inequalities in medical care utilization and household ...
Kai Liu, S. V. Subramanian, Chunling Lu
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Global PM2.5 exposures and inequalities

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Inequalities in exposure to PM2.5 reflect disproportionate distribution of health risks across populations. This study assesses global PM2.5 exposure inequalities and associated trends since 2000.
Chenyang Xu, Kaiming Xia, Zhehan Huang, John J. Qu, Ashbindu Singh, Ziqian Ye, Qingquan Li, Jizhe Xia   +7 more
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Ecological study of the association between the English national vaccination programme and area deprivation inequalities in COVID-19 mortality

BMJ Open
Objective To understand how area deprivation inequalities in COVID-19 mortality changed during the national vaccination programme in England and to identify the extent to which these inequalities might be explained by unequal vaccination uptake.Design ...
Clare Bambra, Adam Todd, Fiona Matthews, David Sinclair, Natalie Bennett   +4 more
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Stigmatisation and resistance processes: Reflections on the field of HIV research and an agenda for contemporary stigma studies

Global Public Health
Stigmatisation processes constitute key barriers to effectively addressing the HIV pandemic. In this article, we provide a critical overview of this field's current state of the art, highlighting some key emerging issues that merit greater research ...
Laio Magno, Veriano Terto, Richard Parker   +2 more
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Drinking beer, wine or spirits – does it matter for inequalities in alcohol-related hospital admission? A record-linked longitudinal study in Wales

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Alcohol-related harm has been found to be higher in disadvantaged groups, despite similar alcohol consumption to advantaged groups. This is known as the alcohol harm paradox.
Andrea Gartner, Laszlo Trefan, Simon Moore, Ashley Akbari, Shantini Paranjothy, Daniel Farewell   +5 more
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$su(d)$-squeezing and many-body entanglement geometry in finite-dimensional systems [PDF]

Quantum
Generalizing the well-known spin-squeezing inequalities, we study the relation between squeezing of collective $N$-particle $su(d)$ operators and many-body entanglement geometry in multi-particle systems.
Giuseppe Vitagliano, Otfried Gühne, Géza Tóth   +2 more
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Reducing the cost of inequality [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018
![Figure][1] The health care system struggles daily to manage a large and growing burden of disease. It is the role of public health to reduce that burden, which is why investment in public health is so valuable. But public health is also committed to reducing health inequalities. There are,
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How can inequalities in mortality be reduced? A quantitative analysis of 6 risk factors in 21 European populations.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundSocioeconomic inequalities in mortality are one of the greatest challenges for health policy in all European countries, but the potential for reducing these inequalities is unclear.
Terje A Eikemo, Rasmus Hoffmann, Margarete C Kulik, Ivana Kulhánová, Marlen Toch-Marquardt, Gwenn Menvielle, Caspar Looman, Domantas Jasilionis, Pekka Martikainen, Olle Lundberg, Johan P Mackenbach, EURO-GBD-SE Consortium   +11 more
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Inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Vietnam: a retrospective study of survey data for 1997–2006

BMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background Vietnam has achieved considerable success in economic development, poverty reduction, and health over a relatively short period of time. However, there is concern that inequalities in health outcomes and intervention coverage are widening ...
Axelson Henrik, Gerdtham Ulf-G, Ekman Björn, Hoa Dinh Thi, Alfvén Tobias   +4 more
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