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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"health equity"”.
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Health Equity Education, Awareness, and Advocacy through the Virginia Department of Health Health Equity Campaign
This study showed that health equity must be achieved through education, awareness, and advocacy. A structured program must be put in place to provide accountability towards achieving health equity within organizations, communities, cites, and states. In Virginia, the Health Equity Campaign was a …
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Achieving Health Equity: Mitigating Implicit Bias Among Healthcare Professionals
… bias is a contributing factor to health care disparities. Research shows that health care professionals exhibit the same level of implicit bias as the larger population (Fitzgerald & Hurst, 2017). The presence of implicit bias among health care professionals affects clinical …
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Health Equity in Financing Healthcare: The Turkish Case (2003-2013)
<p>In 2008, Turkey introduced a new health system reform called Health Transformation Project (HTP) with universal health coverage. HTP aims equity in financing healthcare and distribution as well as sustainability, efficiency and quality within the healthcare system. There are claims that HTP has …
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Supporting health equity in obesity prevention for women of reproductive age
… obesity for this population needs to be a public health priority. Obesity negatively affects women’s health (e.g., chronic disease, cancer); leads to poor pregnancy outcomes (e.g., gestational diabetes); and increases the risk children will develop obesity through intergenerational transmission of …
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Health Equity Through Spatial Justice: A Critical Phenomenology of Urban Trail Makers
… race, class and place are powerful predictors of health and social justice. This study was conducted to identify the lived experiences of individuals who were hired and trained as part of a green job program that created trails within a city park in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington Community. This …
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Critiquing Economic Frameworks in Sustainable Development: Health Equity, Resource Management and Materialism
… to three topics in sustainable development: health equity, sustainable non-renewable resource management and development approaches. The themes of the three papers are as follows: Political Dimensions of Health Equity in Mozambique - In order to promote equity in health, analysis should look …
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Improving Social Determinants of Health Provider Education: A Step Towards Health Equity
… regarding the impact of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) on health equity and to increase awareness of the importance of including SDOH questions in the intake of patients. This knowledge will help prepare clinicians for future implementation of SDOH data collection and utilization to …
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Assessing Academic Health Centers’ Readiness to Implement Social Accountability to Advance Health Equity
… dissertation examines how AHCs can advance healthcare equity by implementing social accountability (SA) into their structures, policies, and practices. research has significant implications for healthcare equity and social responsibility theory, practice, and policy.</p><p dir="ltr">This …
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Integrating health equity into implementation science to advance chronic disease prevention and control
… heart disease, obesity, and cancer. The goal of health equity work is to ensure all people have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health. Implementation science has made health equity a greater focus and priority in recent years. There has been a proliferation of guidance on what …
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Navigating the Health Equity Gap: Bridging Systemic Challenges in Health Promotion Across Welfare States
This dissertation examines the capacity of public health systems to advance health promotion and health equity within two contrasting welfare state typologies: Anglo-Saxon liberal welfare states and Nordic social democratic welfare states, with Canada as the central case study. Using political …
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Enhancing health equity in antidiabetic medication use and diabetes care outcomes through data science approaches
Diabetes remains a major public health concern in the United States, affecting more than 10% of the population, with 90% to 95% of cases attributable to type 2 diabetes (T2D). Antidiabetic medications play a central role in glycemic control and in preventing or delaying diabetes-related …
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HEALTH EQUITY IN PAIN MANAGMENT DURING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC: HOW STEREOTYPES, RACISM, BIAS HARM VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
… crises. Additional oversight and inclusion of healthcare equity is needed to combat this unethical gap in patient care. There are numerous ways to create pain management equity, in terms of conversations around pain along with the proper distribution of pain medication, especially opiates. The …
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Lessons Learned: Can a Principled Mechanism for Improving Health Equity be Integrated into a Budgetary Process?
<p>Health equity is the social justice lens that public health institutions across the United States have increasingly embraced as a mandate, however there are few jurisdictions addressing how to prioritize funding toward that end. The practical translation of a social justice concept necessitates …
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Addressing Health Equity in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Review of Distributional and Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Background Equity is rarely included in health economic evaluations, partly because the techniques for addressing equity have been inadequate. Since 2013 health economists have developed two competing health economic technologies: distributional costeffectiveness analysis (DCEA) and extended …
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A Systems Thinking, Community-Based Exploration of Health Equity and Agency: Women’s Migraine as a Paradigmatic Case
<p>Background. Creating health equity—“the attainment of the highest level of health for all people”— is a core tenet of public health (American Public Health Association, 2015; United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2011, p. 1). Achieving health equity requires the identification …
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Applying a Health Equity Lens to Virtual Primary Care for Socially Vulnerable Groups During the Covid-19 Pandemic
… not just for a solitary, defining, major health condition. Making primary care available to all population segments helps maintain a community's or entire population's health. However, many disaster planning documents do not adequately consider social determinants of health and community …
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HEALTH EQUITY IN TOBACCO CONTROL THROUGH AN INTERSECTIONALITY FRAMEWORK: EXAMINING THE COMPOUNDING EFFECTS OF MINORITY STRESSORS AND TOBACCO ADVERTISING
… that smoking cigarettes has negative downstream health consequences, and this dissertation seeks to contribute to our understanding of why there is higher tobacco-related morbidity and mortality for people with marginalized identities who do not necessarily have additional biological risk …
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Advancing Digital Health Equity in a Safety-Net Health System: Identifying Barriers, Evaluating Training, and Assessing Impact on Diabetes Outcomes
Digital health technology, including patient portal use and telehealth visits, has been increasingly utilized across healthcare settings, transforming how individuals access healthcare and contributing to improved quality of care. However, there are differences in which types of patients use …
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Implementation and Evaluation of the "Human Trafficking 201 Workshop" Pilot conducted in partnership with Seattle Children's Center for Diversity and Health Equity
Human trafficking (HT) is a public health issue. The trafficking of children and adolescents is of special concern due to their increased vulnerability. Health care professionals (HCPs) are uniquely positioned to detect, support, and aid in the care of patients suspected of or known to be involved …
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Centering and Advancing Health Equity within a Federal Maternal and Child Health Initiative: A Case Study of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
<p dir="ltr">Adverse maternal and child health outcomes affect women and infants across all racial and ethnic populations, with a disproportionate burden of loss among Black and Indigenous families. The study presents racial and ethnic disparity data. The intent is not to imply there is a White …
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