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Best Practice Guidelines for Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Status: Lessons from Scotland [PDF]

, 2011
Context: In this article we present "best practice" guidelines for monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health status in the general population, using routinely collected data.
Frank, John W, Haw, Sally, Frank, John; id_orcid   +2 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health 2002-2010 : a time-series analysis of 34 countries participating in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study [PDF]

, 2015
The study was supported by research grants from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canada Research Chairs programme awarded to FJE.
Moor, Irene, Leerstoel Vollebergh, Stevens, Gonneke W.J.M., Pförtner, Timo Kolja, Elgar, Frank J, Stevens, Gonneke WJM, Pförtner, Timo-Kolja, Elgar, Frank J., De Clercq, Bart, Stevens, Gonneke W J M, Youth in Changing Cultural Contexts, Currie, Candace   +11 more
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Addressing discrimination and violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) persons from Brazil: a mobile health intervention

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) experience higher rates of discrimination and violence when compared to cis, heterosexual peers. However, violent crimes and other hate incidents against SGM persons are consistently not reported and ...
Monica Malta, Angelica Baptista da Silva, Cosme Marcelo Furtado da Silva, Sara LeGrand, Michele Seixas, Bruna Benevides, Clarisse Kalume, Kathryn Whetten   +7 more
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Health inequalities in England, Scotland and Wales : stakeholders' accounts and policy compared [PDF]

, 2009
Objectives The election of a Labour government in 1997 brought the issue of health inequalities firmly back on to the policy agenda across the UK. Since then, in the wake of devolution, the need to tackle health inequalities has been highlighted as a ...
Hunter, D.J., Blackman, T.J., Greene, A, Hunter, D., Blackman, T., Harrington, B. E., Williams, G.H., Williams, GH, Harrington, B.E., Marks, Linda, Smith, KE, Smith, Katherine, Marks, L., McKee, L., Harrington, B., McKee, Lorna, Smith, Kat, Blackman, T. J., Williams, Gareth, Hunter, D. J., Elliott, E, Williams, G., Williams, G. H., Smith, K., Blackman, TJ, Blackman, Tim, Harrington, Barbara, Marks, L, Smith, K.E., Hunter, David J., Greene, Alex, Smith, K. E., Harrington, BE, Elliott, Eva, Hunter, David J, Greene, A., Elliott, E., Williams, Gareth Howard, McKee, L   +38 more
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Monitoring the cluster of high-risk mortality areas in the southwest of Spain

Geospatial Health, 2012
Inspired by a previous study showing a striking geographical mortality clustering, not attributable to chance, in the south-western region of Spain in 1987-1995, the authors have conducted an ecological study of time trends in all-cause mortality risk ...
Maria Buxó-Pujolràs, José Miguel Martínez, Yutaka Yasui, Carme Borrell, Juan Carlos Martín, Montserrat Vergara, Marta Cervantes, Joan Benach   +7 more
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Assessment of the concordance between individual-level and area-level measures of socio-economic deprivation in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Most research on health inequalities uses aggregated deprivation scores assigned to the small area where the patient lives; however, the concordance between aggregate area-level deprivation measures and personal deprivation experienced by ...
Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Aurélien Belot, Matthew Baker, Fiona C Ingleby, Iain Atherton, Laura M Woods   +5 more
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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]

, 2016
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, Turek, Konrad, Konrad Turek, Zuzanna Drożdżak   +3 more
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Health and social inequality in Europe [PDF]

BMJ, 1994
In most European countries health has been shown to be linked to social circumstances--gradients in health status have persisted for decades, despite major changes in the principal causes of death. In central and eastern Europe life expectancy has stagnated since the mid-60s, whereas in the West it has increased; but even in the West it is related to ...
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Socioeconomic disparities and concentration of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec, Canada

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Recent studies suggest that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection may be greater in more densely populated areas and in cities with a higher proportion of persons who are poor, immigrant, or essential workers.
Gabrielle Lefebvre, Slim Haddad, Dominique Moncion-Groulx, Mélanie Saint-Onge, André Dontigny   +4 more
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Measuring Inequalities in the Distribution of Health Workers: The case of Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2009
The overall human resource shortages and the distributional inequalities in the health workforce in many developing countries are well acknowledged. However, little has been done to measure the degree of inequality systematically.
Maestad, Ottar, Munga, Michael Aloyce, Munga, Michael A, Ottar Mæstad, Munga Michael A, Mæstad, Ottar, Mæstad Ottar, Michael A Munga   +7 more
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