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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"inequalities in health"”.
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The social determinants of health: an empirical analysis of ethnic and spatial inequalities in health.
This thesis consists of three self-contained research articles that empirically examine the ethnic and spatial patterning of health outcomes in England today. Health is defined here as a multidimensional concept encompassing physical and mental health and wellbeing, in line with the Public Health …
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The role of commonsense understandings in social inequalities in health : an investigation in the context of dental health / Michael Davies.
… with the contribution of commonsense understandings of disease to social differentials in health outcomes. Argues that understandings in part reflect the social circumstances of an individual and mediate preventive activities and use of services, thereby influencing health outcomes. These are …
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Intersections of Gender, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Position in Health in England: A Mixed Methods Study
Background: Social inequalities in health represent one of the greatest challenges to public health today. Traditionally, studies investigating health inequalities have treated gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic position as independent and additive explanatory variables. Consequently, important …
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Neighborhood social environments and the distribution of low-birthweight in Chicago
Mothers in different social groups tend to have very different health outcomes in pregnancy. Ordinarily, social inequalities in rates of low birthweight (LBW) are discussed in terms of risk factors for these conditions, such as race, income, education, or prenatal care use, which largely focus on …
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The association of young maternal age and low socioeconomic status with poor birth outcomes in urban British Columbia
The reduction of inequalities in health and longevity have been endorsed by various levels of government, associations of health professionals and others in Canada. Despite the proportional decline in births to women less than 20 years of age in both the United States and Canada, births to young …
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Coming in from the margins: migrant voices, community broadcasting and social inclusion
This study provides fresh insights into the process of social exclusion by comparing it with the discourse of developmentalism to offer a wider theoretical understanding of the issues related to marginalisation and powerlessness. The study argues that people experiencing exclusion from the social …
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Essays on Human Capital Investments: Pharmaceuticals and Education
This thesis consists of four essays on individual health behaviour and investment in higher education. Three of them consider different aspects of pharmaceutical utilization and aim at explaining some of the observed individual variation in access and adherence to treatment regimens. The fourth …
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Primary care buildings: government policy, implementation and community involvement in facility planning and design
… took the decision to shift the balance of health service delivery away from acute hospitals into an expanded network of primary care services provided from local and community based settings. This had implications for the architecture of primary care, as new and extended facilities were …
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The birth of the global clinic: Gender, markets, and care in Taiwan’s three AIDS regimes
This dissertation examines the shift in Taiwan’s AIDS response from the exclusion of those deemed morally deviant to the inclusion of epidemiologically defined risk populations. It shows how HIV in Taiwan constitutes a site that reflects the dynamics between international organizations, state …
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Mortality and morbidity patterns in ethnic minorities in England and Wales: evidence from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study
Ethnic differences in the prevalence of diseases are known but the underlying causes and mechanisms remain unclear. The field of ethnic inequalities in health is relatively young in the UK, compromised by the lack of relevant data. It is, nevertheless, curious that while the UK has long provided …
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Obstructive sleep apnoea in Aotearoa/New Zealand : an objective and questionnaire-based approach to population prevalence and clinical screening : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health at Massey University, Wellington Campus, New Zealand
… syndrome (OSAS) among Māori and non-Māori adults in a community-based sample, and to develop a questionnaire-based multivariate predictive tool for OSAS, to help improve referral of patients to specialist sleep services, and prioritise waiting lists. This research was situated within the wider …
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Explaining the socio-economic inequalities in child immunisation coverage in Zimbabwe
Socioeconomic inequalities in health have received significant attention globally because of the well-known association between wealth and health. A lot of studies show that poor people are more prone to sickness than their counterparts. Immunisation has been a key antidote to avert deaths for …
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Health Care Utilization and Expenditures among People with Disabilities: Variations by Disability Spans
<p>Background:Working-age adults with disabilities who tend to be socioeconomic disadvantaged account for a disproportionate share of publically funded health care services and expenditures. Prescription drug costs are also one of the most significant expenses for those with disabilities and may …
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Estimating income-related health inequalities associated with tobacco and alcohol in Namibia
A number of studies have examined the contribution of tobacco and alcohol use to the socioeconomic-related inequalities in health. Such evidence has been important for the formulation of anti-smoking and alcohol policies. However, focus has been on self-assessed health, a subjective health outcome …
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Social capital, trust in institutions, discrimination and self-rated health. An epidemiological study in southern Sweden.
The rational for studying health consequences of social determinants is to enable understanding of factors that affect population patterns of health, disease and well-being in order to produce knowledge useful for guiding policies and actions to reduce social inequalities in health and promote …
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Addressing health inequalities in South Africa : policy insights and the role of improved efficiency
… technical efficiency aspects of the South African health system. It empirically assesses the status qua and trends in equity as it relates to child morbidity and mortality and self-reported illness and utilization of different service providers in adulthood. Furthermore, an assessment of the …
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An exploration of primary care policy and practice for reducing inequalities in mental health
Mental health problems in individuals and in the Scottish population are less well defined by routine data and diagnostic criteria than are physical health problems, but they have similar relationships with social gradients. Primary care in Scotland in recent years has been given an emphasis on …
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Implementing a Social Determinants of Health Screening Tool at a Federally Qualified Health Center
Abstract Social determinants of health (SDOH) are social conditions, forces, and systems shaping individuals’ daily lives. Education, employment, income, safety, social support, and access to healthy food items and exercise are all social conditions that impact individual and community health …
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Spatial urban environmental change and Malaria/Diarrhoea mortality in Accra, Ghana
Introduction and Theoretical Background: Environmental change processes, including demographic and climate change, have been widely predicted to have profound consequences (both direct and indirect) on human health. There is a strong consensus that such health impacts of environmental change would …
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Financial Risk Protection, Decomposition and Inequality Analysis of Household Out-of-Pocket Health Payments
English: This research examines equity trends in financing health care through out-of-pocket payments (OOP) using South African Income and Expenditure Surveys for the periods 1995, 2000, 2005-06 and 2010-11. South Africa is interesting to examine for a variety of reasons. In 1994, South Africa …