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The value of comparative research in major day surgery

Gaceta Sanitaria, 2018
Objective: To measure time trends in major day surgery rates according to hospital ownership and other hospital characteristics among the providers of the public healthcare network of Catalonia, Spain.
Alba Llop-Gironés, Montse Vergara-Duarte, Josep Anton Sánchez, Gemma Tarafa, Joan Benach   +4 more
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Low level of attention to health inequalities in prevention planning activities of the Italian Regions [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Health promotion and prevention activities should tackle health inequalities to reduce disparities in health among disadvantaged populations.
D'ANDREA, ELVIRA, DE VITO, CORRADO, DI THIENE, DOMITILLA, MARZUILLO, CAROLINA, MASSIMI, AZZURRA, ROSSO, ANNALISA, VACCHIO, Maria Rosaria, VILLARI, Paolo   +7 more
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Healthy immigrants, unhealthy ageing? Analysis of health decline among older migrants and natives across European countries

SSM: Population Health, 2023
The probability of having multiple chronic conditions simultaneously, or multimorbidity, tends to increase with age. Immigrants face a particularly high risk of unhealthy ageing.
Su Yeon Jang, Anna Oksuzyan, Mikko Myrskylä, Frank J. van Lenthe, Silvia Loi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Talent-spotting’ or ‘social magic’? Inequality, cultural sorting and constructions of the ideal graduate in elite professions [PDF]

, 2018
Graduate outcomes – including rates of employment and earnings – are marked by persistent inequalities related to social class, as well as gender, ethnicity and institution. Despite national policy agendas related to social mobility and ‘fair access to
Bourdieu P., Bourdieu P., Bourdieu P., Britton J., Burke C., Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Friedman S., High Fliers, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Kaputa C., Kim Allen, Meiert J. O., Milburn A., Nicola Ingram, Purcell K., Puwar N., Rose G., Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, Social Mobility Commission, Universities UK   +19 more
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Disparities in cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, treatment and mortality across socioeconomic groups in Finland: a register-based population study

BMJ Public Health
Background Socioeconomic inequalities in various cancer-related indicators exist globally, but the evidence is fragmented even within countries.
Peng Li, Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Mikko Myrskylä, Luca Dei Bardi, Xianhua Zai, Margherita Moretti   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are deprivation-specific cancer survival patterns similar according to individual-based and area-based measures? A cohort study of patients diagnosed with five malignancies in England and Wales, 2008–2016

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective To investigate if measured inequalities in cancer survival differ when using individual-based (‘person’) compared with area-based (‘place’) measures of deprivation for three socioeconomic dimensions: income, deprivation and occupation.Design ...
Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Aurélien Belot, Matthew Baker, Fiona C Ingleby, Laura M Woods, Iain M Atherton   +5 more
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Social inequality:

, 2017
Life is unfair. In many large cities, opulent homes can be found right alongside poor neighbourhoods. The new medicines that pharmaceutical companies develop are so expensive that many people can’t afford to use them. And while some people work all hours to get their job done, many others cannot find employment. Inequalities also characterize the lives
openaire   +3 more sources

Individual and parental housing tenure and mental healthcare use among Finnish men and women in early mid-adulthood

SSM - Mental Health
Homeownership is a valuable status associated with better mental health outcomes than being a tenant. However, research has yet to investigate the role of duration and past experiences of homeownership, particularly in a context where homeownership is ...
Joan Damiens, Liina Junna, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the mortality registry in Ecuador (2001–2013) – social and geographical inequalities in completeness and quality

Population Health Metrics, 2019
Background Mortality registries are an essential data source for public health surveillance and for planning and evaluating public policy. Nevertheless, there are still large inequalities in the completeness and quality of mortality registries between ...
Andrés Peralta, Joan Benach, Carme Borrell, Verónica Espinel-Flores, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Bernardo L. Queiroz, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

What inequality means for children: evidence from young lives. Background paper for the Global Thematic Consultation “Addressing Inequalities” in the post-2015 Development Agenda [PDF]

, 2012
Understanding how poverty and inequalities impact on children is the major goal of Young Lives, a unique longitudinal, mixed-methods research and policy study.
Dornan, Paul, Murray, Helen, Woodhead, Martin   +2 more
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