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Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable neighbourhoods among adults with diverse disability experiences in urban and ...
Maria Hobbs, Kim Jose, Ceridwen Owen, Verity Cleland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Justice for People With Disability in Australia: A Systematic Review

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People with disability face persistent inequities in accessing justice. This systematic review synthesised evidence on what facilitates and impedes access to the justice system for people with disability in Australia, focusing on the little studied area of civil and administrative law. There were 47 peer‐reviewed papers included, most of which
Kate Davies, Ivy Vuong, Sarah E. Ratcliffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Disparities in the Prevalence of Disability in Iran: A Decomposition Analysis Using the Concentration Index [PDF]

Journal of Rehabilitation
Objective Various factors, including injuries, health conditions, demographics, environmental influences, and socioeconomic factors, can elevate the risk of disability.
Fardin Moradi, Ali Kazemi-Karyani, Behzad Karami Matin, Pegah Soltani, Mohammad Kamali, Faramarz Jalili, Shahin Soltani   +6 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in childhood obesity and its determinants: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

Jornal de Pediatria
Objective Childhood obesity has become a priority health concern worldwide. Socioeconomic status is one of its main determinants. This study aimed to assess the socioeconomic inequality of obesity in children and adolescents at national and provincial ...
Roya Kelishadi, Mostafa Qorbani, Ramin Heshmat, Shirin Djalalinia, Ali Sheidaei, Saeid Safiri, Nastaran Hajizadeh, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Gelayol Ardalan, Hamid Asayesh, Morteza Mansourian   +10 more
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A direct regression approach to decomposing socioeconomic inequality of health.

Health Economics, 2019
This paper presents a new regression-based decomposition of socioeconomic inequality of health that is more direct than other approaches. The method can be applied to both rank-dependent and level-dependent indicators of inequality. The response variable
R. Kessels, G. Erreygers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Income Inequality and Socioeconomic Gradients in Mortality

American Journal of Public Health, 2008
Objectives. We investigated whether the processes underlying the association between income inequality and population health are related to those responsible for the socioeconomic gradient in health and whether health disparities are smaller when income differences are narrower. Methods.
Richard G, Wilkinson, Kate E, Pickett
openaire   +3 more sources

Measuring inequality of poverty: theory and an application to India [PDF]

The commonly used poverty indices measure the overall level of poverty in a society but fail to capture the differential intensity across different socioeconomic groups.
Singh, Ashish
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Policy Level Factors Influencing Australian Social and Health Care Place‐Based Initiatives: A Scoping Review

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Place‐based initiatives (PBIs) aim to address complex and intersecting forms of disadvantage shaped by health, social care, employment and geographical inequities. While PBIs offer integrated and community‐centred responses, limited evidence makes it difficult to understand the policy conditions that support their development and ...
Kanchan Marcus, Carmen Huckel Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Association Between Genetic Ancestry and Multiple Sclerosis Severity

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective The objective of this study was to determine whether genetic ancestry is associated with differences in the clinical course of multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods Participants with MS living in the United Kingdom >18 years old were recruited from 2021 to 2025 and genotyped from saliva using a commercial array. Genetic ancestry was inferred using
Benjamin M. Jacobs, Emily Tregaskis‐Daniels, Luisa Schalk, Jakub Nagrodski, ADAMS investigators, Michelle Peter, Rashmi Kaimal, Roxanne Murray, Sadid Hoque, Terri‐Louise Brown, Ghaniah Hassan‐Smith, Helen L. Ford, Bruno Gran, Karim L. Kreft, Cord Spilker, Outi Quinn, David Rog, Miriam Mattoscio, Elisa Visentin, Ramya Shamji, Grace Fawehinmi, Katila George, Maria Papachatzaki, Katharine Harding, Rod Middleton, Tarunya Arun, Waqar Rashid, Adil Harroud, Huw R. Morris, Eli Silber, Gavin Giovannoni, Alastair J. Noyce, Ruth Dobson   +32 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing the causes of socioeconomic-related health inequality among urban and rural populations in China: a new decomposition approach

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Background In recent decades, China has experienced tremendous economic growth and also witnessed growing socioeconomic-related health inequality. The study aims to explore the potential causes of socioeconomic-related health inequality in urban and ...
Jiaoli Cai, Peter C. Coyte, Hongzhong Zhao   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source