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Inequality in life expectancy losses by education in Finland during COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a rapid increase in mortality in most societies examined. The effects of the pandemic have varied considerably between different populations, time periods and age groups.
Dmitri Jdanov   +3 more
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Uma análise crítica da abordagem dos Determinantes Sociais da Saúde a partir da medicina social e saúde coletiva latino-americana

open access: yesSaúde em Debate
O enfoque dos Determinantes Sociais da Saúde tem tido ampla difusão e foi aparentemente bem acolhido globalmente. Este artigo assume uma visão crítica desse enfoque, buscando sistematizar as críticas principalmente provenientes de debates no interior da ...
Elis Borde   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unfair inequalities in health and health care [PDF]

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Inequalities in health and health care are caused by different factors. Measuring "unfair"inequalities implies that a distinction is introduced between causal variables leading toethically legitimate inequalities and causal variables leading to ethically
FLEURBAEY, Marc, SCHOKKAERT, Erik
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Social Mechanisms in Epidemiological Publications on Small-Area Health Inequalities—A Scoping Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2019
Background: Small-area social mechanisms—social processes involving the social environment around the place of residence—may be playing a role in the production of health inequalities.
Kim Alexandra Zolitschka   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An economic framework for analysing the social determinants of health and health inequalities [PDF]

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Reducing health inequalities is an important part of health policy in most countries. This paper discusses from an economic perspective how government policy can influence health inequalities, particularly focusing on the outcome of performance targets ...
Peter C Smith   +3 more
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Do Political Institutions protect the poor? Intra Countries Health Inequalities and Air Pollution in Developing Countries [PDF]

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This paper examines the link between health inequalities, air pollution and political institutions. In health economics literature, many studies have assessed the association between environmental degradation and health outcomes.
Alassane Drabo
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Excess winter mortality in Finland, 1971–2019: a register-based study on long-term trends and effect modification by sociodemographic characteristics and pre-existing health conditions

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objectives Excess winter mortality is a well-established phenomenon across the developed world. However, whether individual-level factors increase vulnerability to the effects of winter remains inadequately examined.
Hanna Remes   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

MolMiner: Toward Controllable, Three‐Dimensional‐Aware, Fragment‐Based Molecular Design

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
MolMiner is a fragment‐based, geometry‐aware, and order‐agnostic generative model for molecular design with strong inductive biases. Using symmetry‐aware fragment assembly, dynamic three‐dimensional geometry, and multi‐property conditioning, MolMiner enables interpretable and controllable molecular generation.
Raul Ortega‐Ochoa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social heterogeneity in self-reported health status and measurement of inequalities in health [PDF]

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This study aims to analyse the impact of the measurement of health status on socioeconomic inequalities in health. A MIMIC model with structural equations is used to create a latent variable of health status from four health indicators: self-assessed ...
Marion Devaux   +3 more
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