Retirement and perceived social inferiority strongly link with health inequalities in older age : decomposition of a concentration index of poor health based on Polish cross-sectional data [PDF]
Identifying mechanisms that generate and sustain health inequalities is a prerequisite for developing effective policy response, but little is known about factors contributing to health inequalities in older populations in post-transitional European ...
Drożdżak, Zuzanna +3 more
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Local Festivals - the Visible and Invisible Benefits for Local Communities: an Empirical View
The article presents the results of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions held in Sadovo, Elin Pelin, Gabrovo, Bolyartsi, Novi Han and Pozharevo within a project “Local festivals: A resource of local communities for coping with crises”, funded
Kamelia Petkova
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Objectives In this study, we aim to analyse the relationship between educational attainment and all-cause mortality of adults in the high-income Asia Pacific region.Design This study is a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis with no language
Talal Mohammad +14 more
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A general model for the comparative analysis of social inequalities between Europe and Latin America [PDF]
Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004The chapter is an introduction to the book that places the research perspective for the comparative analysis of social inequalities between Europe and Latin America in a theoretical and ...
Fachelli, Sandra +3 more
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By way of summary : substantive contributions and public policies for dealing with social inequalities [PDF]
Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004The final chapter aims to summarize the main substantive contributions of each of the preceding ones and the public policies that could be applied to deal with social inequalities.
Fachelli, Sandra +3 more
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Social Justice and the Justification of Social Inequalities
In this chapter, we introduce key research on social justice from an interdisciplinary social scientific perspective, focusing on questions of what (distributive justice), how (procedural justice) and who (recognition and scope). After discussing seminal theories on distributive justice (i.e., equity theory and relative deprivation), we introduce the ...
Bal, M., Van den Bos, K.
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The value of comparative research in major day surgery
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 +4 more
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Background Socioeconomic inequalities in various cancer-related indicators exist globally, but the evidence is fragmented even within countries.
Peng Li +6 more
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Social inequalities in cancer survival [PDF]
Social differentials in survival from 12 common types of cancer are assessed by estimating an additive-multiplicative hazard model on the basis of individual register and census data for the whole Norwegian population. The excess all-cause mortality among cancer patients compared with similar persons without a cancer diagnosis is significantly related ...
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Cause-specific inequalities in mortality in Scotland: two decades of change - a population-based study [PDF]
<p><b>Background:</b> Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality have increased in recent years in many countries. We examined age-, sex-, and cause-specific mortality rates for social groups in and regions of Scotland to understand the ...
Dundas, R. +11 more
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