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Untangling Socioeconomic Health Inequalities

, 2023
Health inequalities persist as a major challenge to public health. We hypothesized that public health policy may have mis-prioritized the determinants and risks for poor health and, consequently may have been barking up the wrong tree because of unmeasured, biased, and neglected risk factors at population level.
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Malnutrition and the disproportional burden on the poor: the case of Ghana

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2007
Background Malnutrition is a major public health and development concern in the developing world and in poor communities within these regions. Understanding the nature and determinants of socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition is essential in ...
Vega Jeanette, Jehu-Appiah Caroline, Hosseinpoor Ahmad, Van de Poel Ellen, Speybroeck Niko   +4 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in teenage pregnancy in Papua New Guinea: a decomposition analysis

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Teenage pregnancy is a global public health issue, and it poses a serious threat to the health and socioeconomic status of mothers and their newborn children.
Hao Li, Yiran Pu, Zhen Li, Ziyang Jin, Yi Jiang   +4 more
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Socioeconomic inequality and determinants of postnatal home visits made by public health midwives: An analysis of the Sri Lanka Demographic and Health Survey.

PLoS ONE, 2019
IntroductionThe impact of socioeconomic inequalities on health outcomes and service delivery is increasingly researched globally. This study assessed the overall and sector-wise socioeconomic inequality in postnatal home visits made by Public Health ...
Dhammika Deepani Siriwardhana, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Ananda Rajitha Wickremasinghe   +2 more
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The contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to socioeconomic inequality in childhood anemia in Ethiopia: a regression-based decomposition analysis

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective There is a scarcity of evidence on socioeconomic inequalities of childhood anemia in Ethiopia. We determined the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in anemia and the contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to the observed inequality,
Shimels Hussien Mohammed, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Fatima Muhammad, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh   +3 more
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Developing evidence‐based, cost‐effective P4 cancer medicine for driving innovation in prevention, therapeutics, patient care and reducing healthcare inequalities

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The cancer problem is increasing globally with projections up to the year 2050 showing unfavourable outcomes in terms of incidence and cancer‐related deaths. The main challenges are prevention, improved therapeutics resulting in increased cure rates and enhanced health‐related quality of life.
Ulrik Ringborg, Joachim von Braun, Julio Celis, Anton Berns, Michael Baumann, Tit Albreht, Nancy Abou‐Zeid, Vanderlei Bagnato, Christian Brandts, Chien‐Jen Chen, Massimiliano di Pietro, Manjit Dosanjh, Thomas Dubois, Alexander Eggermont, Angelika Eggert, Ingemar Ernberg, Sara Faithfull, Johannes Förner, Stefan Fröhling, Manuel Heitor, Leroy Hood, Wei Jiang, Bengt Jönsson, Ravi Kannan, Maria Leptin, Su Li, Peter Lindgren, Douglas Lowy, Jun Ma, Alex Markham, Péter Nagy, Simon Oberst, M. Iqbal Parker, Danielle Rodin, Kevin Ryan, Joachim Schüz, Richard Sullivan, Josep Tabernero, Peter Turkson, Oliver Várhelyi, Harold Varmus, Chijie Wang, Elisabete Weiderpass, Nils Wilking   +43 more
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Measuring and decomposing socioeconomic inequality in catastrophic healthcare expenditures in Iran [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2019
Objectives Equity in financial protection against healthcare expenditures is one the primary functions of health systems worldwide. This study aimed to quantify socioeconomic inequality in facing catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE) and to identify
Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Hajizadeh
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
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Global and Regional Temporal Changes in Cross‐Country Inequalities of Site‐Specific Osteoarthritis Burden, 1990 to 2021

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study examined the global and regional temporal changes in cross‐country inequalities of site‐specific osteoarthritis (OA) burden from 1990 to 2021. Methods Age‐standardized years lived with disability rates (ASYRs) for site‐specific OA across 204 countries and territories were obtained from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and ...
Haowei Chen, Lei Si, David J. Hunter, Lei Zhang, Zhe‐Sheng Chen, Xiaomeng Wang, Vicky Duong, Zhounan Zhou, Peihua Cao, Han Cen, Su'an Tang, Tianyu Chen, Houjun Xue, Zhaohua Zhu, Changhai Ding   +14 more
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Unravelling socioeconomic health inequalities

, 2022
Socioeconomic health inequalities are a public health problem regardless of which aspect of socioeconomic position (SEP) is considered (e.g., educational level, household income and occupational prestige). Metabolic syndrome (MetS) (a combination of factors related to type 2 diabetes and excess fat tissue) and major depressive disorder (MDD) are ...
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