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Final Recommendations from the World Health Organisation Commission on the Social Determinants of Health: Nurses, part of the solution? A discussion paper. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Aim This paper suggests that nursing needs a new paradigm for research and practice that recognises the social determinants of health as potentially preventable causes of ill health.
Hemingway, Ann
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Social epidemiology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Social epidemiology is the branch of epidemiology concerned with understanding how social and economic characteristics influence states of health in populations.
Link, B, Morroni, C, Myer, L, Susser, E
core   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic gradients in cardiovascular risk in Canadian children and adolescents

open access: yesHealth Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2016
Introduction: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors show clear socioeconomic gradients in Canadian adults. Whether socioeconomic gradients in cardiovascular risk emerge in childhood remains unclear.
Y. Shi, M. de Groh, C. Bancej
doaj   +1 more source

The Determinants Of Population Health Spatial Disparities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Health of the population is one of the basic factors of social development. The results of empirical studies indicate a number of factors determining the level of health of the population related to access to health care services, the level of ...
Modranka, Emilia, Suchecka, Jadwiga
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of breast self-examination behavior in housewives based on trans-theoretical model

open access: yesمجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی بیرجند, 2019
Background and Aim: Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer among women. Monthly breast Self-Examination is an important screening strategy for early detection of breast cancer, but few women do this.
Mitra Moodi   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Psychometric Properties of Intention to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine Scale Based on the Health Belief Model

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2023
Acceptance of the SARS-CoV-2) COVID-19( vaccine is a very important factor to keep health workers safe. The study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine using a health belief model among health workers ...
Khadijeh Hajimiri PhD   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic inequality in unmet outpatient healthcare needs among people living in urban informal settlements in Sanandaj city, Iran

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background The growing trend of informal settlements is a serious humanitarian crisis. Unmet need for health care services is an indicator to measure the state of equality and access to healthcare services.
Bakhtiar Piroozi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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