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Social inequalities in childhood asthma. [PDF]
Asthma is a complex, heterogeneous condition, broadly characterized by chronic airway inflammation with variable expiratory airflow limitation, but with several subtypes underpinned by different (although likely overlapping) pathological mechanisms.
Pinot de Moira A, Custovic A.
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Observations Economic and cultural globalisation The Brussels Capital Region has experienced a significant period of economic growth over the past few decades. The service sector has been particularly responsible for this economic performance, largely comprising the European, federal and regional administrations.
Christian Kesteloot, Maarten Loopmans
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Background Mobility of workers living in one country and working in a different country has increased in the European Union. Exposed to commuting factors, cross-border workers (CBWs) constitute a potential high-risk population.
Lucas Nonnenmacher +4 more
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Pathways to social inequality [PDF]
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Hannah J. Haynie +12 more
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Background Evidence on health inequalities has been growing over the past few decades, yet the capacity to produce research on health inequalities varies between countries worldwide and needs to be strengthened.
Lucinda Cash-Gibson +2 more
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Social isolation and inequality [PDF]
There is an increasing interest in the concept of social exclusion and the related concept of social isolation and their potential role in understanding inequality. We examine the degree to which voluntary separation from social activities during adolescence affects adult wages. It is well-known that participation in high school athletic programs leads
Postlewaite, Andrew, Silverman, Daniel
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This research studies the evolution of COVID-19 crude incident rates, effective reproduction number R(t) and their relationship with incidence spatial autocorrelation patterns in the 19 months following the disease outbreak in Catalonia (Spain).
Francesc Belvis +10 more
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Background Nurses and midwives play a critical role in the provision of care and the optimization of health services resources worldwide, which is particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, they can only provide quality services
Alba Llop-Gironés +13 more
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The PRESSED project aims to explain the links between a multidimensional measure of precarious employment and stress and health. Studies on social epidemiology have found a clear positive association between precarious employment and health, but the ...
Mireia Bolibar +18 more
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Background Despite increasing evidence on health inequalities over the past decades, further efforts to strengthen capacities to produce research on this topic are still urgently needed to inform effective interventions aiming to address these ...
Lucinda Cash-Gibson +3 more
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