• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • Today, the cost has almost tripled (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009). (ukessays.com)
  • Funding: The American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded the analysis, interpretation, and compilation of surveillance data. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2003, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention audit concluded that 95.3% of all cancer cases diagnosed or treated in hospital facilities in Puerto Rico were appropriately reported to the PRCCR, a result comparable to the US median of 95% (9). (cdc.gov)
  • Findings from the present study support this hypothesis as individual-level and neighborhood level social determinants did contribute significantly to disparities in diabetes," the authors wrote, adding "prevention efforts that address racial inequalities in socioeconomic factors (eg. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Unfortunately, when we talk about cancer, considerable disparities and inequalities continue to persist across Europe. (europa.eu)
  • The European Cancer Inequalities Registry (ECIR), the flagship initiative of the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan , has shown trends, disparities and inequalities in cancer prevention and care across EU countries, Norway and Iceland, during its first year of activity. (europa.eu)
  • These collections cover diverse issues communities are faced with: poverty, racial and socio-economic segregation, health care policy inequalities, public health and sexual education and prevention, disparities in the HIV response, the impact of HIV on migrant communities, and the intersection of the criminal justice system and HIV. (ucsf.edu)
  • This year's conference theme, "Using Prevention Science to Promote Health Equity and Improve Well-being," offers the opportunity to consider ways in which the prevention science community can effectively contribute to reducing health disparities and achieve health equity across populations around the world. (preventionresearch.org)
  • Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health and well-being based on their racial or ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, geography, mental health, disability or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion. (preventionresearch.org)
  • Background: Eliminating socioeconomic disparities in health is an overarching goal of the U.S. Healthy People decennial initiatives. (cdc.gov)
  • Notably, deaths occurring in this age interval have examined temporal trends in mortality disparities by are of societal importance as they tend to affect individuals and socioeconomic status found widening rather than narrowing of families with dependent children and/or other family members the disparities [3-10]. (cdc.gov)
  • The objective of this study was to create an area-based socioeconomic position (SEP) index to assess possible socioeconomic disparities in incidence and mortality of selected cancers in Puerto Rico. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from the Census 2000 indicate that socioeconomic disparities exist geographically across Puerto Rico, where municipalities differ by socioeconomic determinants such as proportion of residents living below the poverty level and with lower educational attainment. (cdc.gov)
  • Socioeconomic disparities influence patterns of cancer morbidity and mortality (2) and may result in cancer disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • Socioeconomic position is a major cause of health disparities worldwide and is closely related to social class (4,5). (cdc.gov)
  • Background Smoking contributes to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, but the extent to which this contribution has changed over time and driven widening or narrowing inequalities in total mortality remains unknown. (bmj.com)
  • We studied socioeconomic inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality and their contribution to inequalities in total mortality in 1990-1994 and 2000-2004 in 14 European countries. (bmj.com)
  • Results In 2000-2004, smoking-attributable mortality was higher in lower socioeconomic groups in all countries among men, and in all countries except Spain, Italy and Slovenia, among women, and the contribution of smoking to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality varied between 19% and 55% among men, and between −1% and 56% among women. (bmj.com)
  • Since 1990-1994, absolute inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality and the contribution of smoking to inequalities in total mortality have decreased in most countries among men, but increased among women. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions In many European countries, smoking has become less important as a determinant of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among men, but not among women. (bmj.com)
  • Inequalities in smoking remain one of the most important entry points for reducing inequalities in mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality is an important challenge for public health and is one of the main priorities of the European Region of the WHO. (bmj.com)
  • In Europe, smoking is not only the largest avoidable health risk in the general population, 2 but it also constitutes the single most important contributor to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, at least among men. (bmj.com)
  • Air pollution concentrations were linked to small area socioeconomic, population and mortality data. (bmj.com)
  • The overall goal of cancer prevention and control is to reduce the incidence and mortality of cancer and to improve the quality of life of cancer patients and their families. (who.int)
  • To date, no studies in Spain have comprehensively analyzed social inequalities in cardiovascular mortality by considering the joint influence of age, sex, and education (intersectional perspective). (revespcardiol.org)
  • The relative index of inequality (RII) and the slope index of inequality (SII) were calculated by using Poisson regression models with age-adjusted mortality. (revespcardiol.org)
  • Cluster analysis of social and environment inequalities of infant mortality. (aaem.pl)
  • Coronary artery bypass graft surgery: socioeconomic inequalities in access and in 30 day mortality. (bmj.com)
  • In particular, this year, the Data Tool aims to include more evidence-based indicators on environmental factors contributing to cancer mortality and incidence, in addition to exploring inequalities existing in vulnerable population groups. (europa.eu)
  • Socioeconomic differences in and on the completeness of both on cancer survival from low- and cancer incidence and mortality are the registration of cases and their middle-income countries (LMICs) large, and it is general y acknowl- follow-up. (who.int)
  • Starting with the latest trends in cancer incidence and mortality worldwide, this publication provides wide-ranging insights into cancer prevention based on the known causes of cancer, factors that determine how cancer develops, and the behaviour of different tumour types, and presents a broad scope of interventions to reduce the cancer burden from a global perspective. (who.int)
  • Evaluation of the extent of socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality is essential to generate hypotheses in population health research and provides evidence for population-based strategies for comprehensive cancer control. (cdc.gov)
  • Not necessarily, though, since some forms of affluence and socio-economic inequality often work to the benefit of the most disadvantaged in the context of non-communicable diseases, or NCDs. (livemint.com)
  • This is also the main cause of extreme socio-economic inequality, leading to poverty. (rightsanddemocracy.blog)
  • It is my assertion that the common denominator to this fabric of problems is the socio-economic inequality, caused by the unequal right and access to the prosperity created by the development of society - the fruits of our joint effort. (rightsanddemocracy.blog)
  • 25-64 years by educational attainment as a marker of socioeconomic status, using national vital registration data for 26 states with consistent educational information on the death certificates. (cdc.gov)
  • The analyses were restricted to age 25-64 years because and sexual orientation has been an overarching goal of the educational attainment information is more complete and provides decennial Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy a better index of socioeconomic position in this age group than at People Initiative, which began in 1979 [1,2]. (cdc.gov)
  • Are occupational factors important determinants of socioeconomic inequalities in musculoskeletal pain? (sjweh.fi)
  • The Theil index (T), between group variance (BGV) were used to measure relative and absolute inequalities in the utilization of maternal healthcare across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. (edu.au)
  • The BGV results do not suggest any changes in absolute inequalities in ANC, FBD, and SBA utilization across the geopolitical zones over time. (edu.au)
  • La pandémie de la COVID-19 de 2020 a souligné l'importance du travail lié à la santé publique, ainsi que la nécessité d'un plan de rétablissement suite à une pandémie qui priorise l'investissement dans tous les domaines de santé publique en Nouvelle-Écosse. (springer.com)
  • McDonald MD, Dombrowski SU, Skinner R, Calveley E, Carroll P, Elders A, Gray CM, Grindle M, Harris FM, Jones C & Hoddinott P (2020) Recruiting men from across the socioeconomic spectrum via GP registers and community outreach to a weight management feasibility randomised controlled trial. (stir.ac.uk)
  • The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has launched World Cancer Report: Cancer Research for Cancer Prevention on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of World Cancer Day, 4 February 2020. (who.int)
  • 3-9 Unfortunately, although tobacco control efforts may have gradually contributed to reducing the prevalence of smoking among men in many countries, socioeconomic inequalities in smoking have increased in many European countries, due to faster declines of smoking among those with higher levels of education, occupation and income. (bmj.com)
  • Persons with new outcomes among blacks in high prevalence EHE jurisdic- diagnoses were those whose HIV test results were positive dur- tions, using CDC's 2017 National HIV Prevention Program ing the current test and were not previously reported in the Monitoring and Evaluation data. (cdc.gov)
  • Different lifestyle choices threaten to exacerbate existing health inequalities, yet evidence monitoring the extent of this impact in emerging economies is lacking. (tobaccopreventioncessation.com)
  • across the continuum of prevention, early detection, treatment, and palliative care, as set out in WHO's guidelines for national cancer control programmes.1 A national cancer control programme can help policy-makers and programme managers make the most efficient use of available resources to benefit the whole population by taking a balanced approach to evidence-based interventions. (who.int)
  • It is these upstream interventions that are generally more effective and progressive for health inequalities. (bmj.com)
  • PrEP has already had an impact on HIV rates in the UK, with Public Health England clear that PrEP, alongside other HIV combination prevention interventions, has played a part in reducing HIV transmission - particularly among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). (tht.org.uk)
  • Effective interventions for the prevention and treatment of child and adolescent obesity play an important role in reducing the global health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases. (researchgate.net)
  • Interventions to reduce income inequalities and health inequalities generally could support a reduction in polypharmacy, however, more research is needed in this area. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • In addition to standard and from countries in transition are edged that such differences require data quality control and central y scarce, suffer from methodological suitable interventions in the area of performed analysis, many registries or quality limitations, or do not in- primary prevention (Fox and Gold- in emerging economies in Asia and clude all cancer types. (who.int)
  • These issues are described in Reducing Social Inequalities in Cancer: Evidence and Priorities for Research ( IARC Scientific Publication No. 168 ), and understanding them is essential to inform local and supranational planning for cancer control interventions. (who.int)
  • Underdeveloped countries adopt legislative measures and interventions, environmental and educational activities, including tobacco and alcohol reduction, proper nutrition and physical activity promotion, or adoption of multi-sector action for road safety and injury prevention. (bvsalud.org)
  • There are still striking geographical differences for prevention, screening or treatment indicators, which is unacceptable within the Union. (europa.eu)
  • Using longitudinal survey data from 2012 and 2014 plus longitudinal administrative injury and payroll data, we tested for socioeconomic differences in changes in self-reported safe patient-handling practices, and for socioeconomic differences in changes in injury rates using administrative data. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on how cancer is distributed worldwide, and differences between and within particular countries, this new assessment offers a comprehensive overview of the global cancer burden as a starting point for documenting all known options for cancer prevention through the latest research. (who.int)
  • There are ongoing racial/ethnic differences in knowledge of status and HIV prevention and treatment outcomes among gay and bisexual men. (cdc.gov)
  • Exploring changes in children's diet over time and the relationship between these changes and socio-economic status (SES) may help to understand the impact of social inequalities on dietary patterns. (cambridge.org)
  • Another example is the failure to take into consideration the social inequalities related to cancer prevention and control. (who.int)
  • However, doubts have been raised about the efficacy of social cohesion when there is extreme economic inequality in the wider environment. (livemint.com)
  • Indeed, extreme inequality is so insidious that not only does it weaken social cohesion, but also leads to adverse health outcomes. (livemint.com)
  • These inequalities are then decomposed to gain a deeper understanding of the factors and broader social forces driving inequality. (tobaccopreventioncessation.com)
  • PA FO evidence of social inequalities in cancer focus 3. (who.int)
  • However, social inequalities in cancer vary substantially between countries, which indicates the potential for prevention. (who.int)
  • The work is conducted within the IARC Cancer Inequalities Team , and it is structured across three main programmatic areas: (1) Global development, (2) Social inequalities, and (3) Health-care inefficiencies. (who.int)
  • This edition deals with the development and application of science of disease prevention, increased longevity and health promotion by community action, to promote the physical, psychological and mental well-being of subjects, involving technology, social sciences, and politics. (bvsalud.org)
  • Researchers have found that people living in precarious socioeconomic conditions are more favorable to be exposed to risk factors that influence oral health conditions, and this is directly related to quality of life, not only in functional domains, but also in its social and psychological ones 2 . (bvsalud.org)
  • For instance, as a response to this and for the very first time, the Southern Obesity Summit, the largest regional obesity prevention unit, held its 7th Annual Southern Obesity Summit in November, 2013, drawing a majority of the participants from the sixteen southern states. (ukessays.com)
  • As the national PrEP guidance from BASHH and BHIVA states, "limiting provision of PrEP to level 3 sexual health clinics risks widening health inequalities disproportionately among black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) populations. (tht.org.uk)
  • The article sets out to measure the level of wealth-related inequality and its drivers in one of these lifestyle choices, tobacco consumption, among populations aged ≥50 years in six Low- and Middle-Income Countries. (tobaccopreventioncessation.com)
  • The study provides empirical evidence of the inequality in tobacco consumption across wealth groups in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, the Russian Federation and South Africa using the Erreygers' corrected concentration indices. (tobaccopreventioncessation.com)
  • Policies aimed at reducing wealthrelated inequalities should especially target high tobacco consumption rates among males, while simultaneously pre-empting and curbing rising rates among women. (tobaccopreventioncessation.com)
  • There are clear links between tobacco use and inequality, and therefore with health inequalities. (healthscotland.scot)
  • Dr. Yael Bar-Zeev, chairwoman of The Israeli College of Physicians for Smoking Prevention and Cessation, stated that according to the findings of the study, tobacco companies are violating Israeli law ("the Ban on Advertising and Restrictions on Marketing Law") by spending huge sums of money in order to attract additional target audiences. (theyeshivaworld.com)
  • Bar Ze'ev added that it is known from international studies that tobacco companies direct their advertising specifically to low socioeconomic populations, which significantly contributes to the inequality of health of these populations. (theyeshivaworld.com)
  • Objectives To examine the socioeconomic and demographic drivers associated with polypharmacy (5-9 medicines), extreme polypharmacy (9-20 medicines) and increased medication count. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Exploring these data sets reveals socio-economic and demographic inequalities from cancer burden, prevention, screening and early detection, to diagnosis, treatment and quality of life. (europa.eu)
  • Socioeconomic factors measured for employment status, marital status, participant's level of education as well as his or her parent's level of education, and ability to pay for basic household items. (medpagetoday.com)
  • U.S. population defined in terms of socioeconomic status (income, version of the death certificate (1989-version) throughout the study education, insurance status, etc.), race/ethnicity, residence, sex, period. (cdc.gov)
  • 14]. Education is used as marker of socioeconomic status. (cdc.gov)
  • There have been significant advances in HIV prevention and treatment but missed testing opportunities in healthcare settings are preventing some gay and bisexual men from knowing their HIV status and benefitting from these advances. (cdc.gov)
  • No measure exists for monitoring inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status in Puerto Rico. (cdc.gov)
  • The effectiveness of tax policy changes in Montenegro - Smoking behavior by socioeconomic status. (who.int)
  • This study examines the geographical and socioeconomic inequalities in maternal healthcare utilization in Nigeria over the period between 2003 and 2017. (edu.au)
  • Black participants generally tended to have worse profiles for socioeconomic, behavior, and neighborhoods baseline characteristics. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Emerging countries have growing market economies that substantially mold the private sector and the population seeking information on health behavior, with direct impacts on the quality of care and the growing inequalities in access to health care. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although the existing body of knowledge about cancer prevention, treatment and palliative care is extensive, more still needs to be known in many areas, notably in etiology and prevention research. (who.int)
  • The Country Cancer Profiles , prepared by the OECD and published today, to allow countries identifying inequalities and understand their strengths and weaknesses in cancer prevention and care. (europa.eu)
  • Now, and in the coming years, both EU and national funding instruments are available to tackle inequalities and reach equity in cancer prevention and care for all. (europa.eu)
  • The new IARC World Cancer Report is the product of a collaboration between leading international scientists that describes multiple aspects of cancer research for cancer prevention. (who.int)
  • World Cancer Report: Cancer Research for Cancer Prevention features the latest research from across multiple disciplines. (who.int)
  • Produced about every 5 years, World Cancer Report provides the latest evidence on cancer prevention and serves as an authoritative reference in the cancer research community. (who.int)
  • Given the importance of public health efforts for disease prevention and addressing health inequities, and the documented return on investment, governments should be increasing, not decreasing, their investments in public health. (springer.com)
  • World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe)/European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). (eurosurveillance.org)
  • There is an ever increasing number of data sources that potentially could be used to gain new insights into areas such as disease prevention, policy formulation/ evaluation and personalised medicine, but these are not optimised for use within an analytics type user interface. (ulster.ac.uk)
  • It is aimed at decision-makers, policy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region analysts and health professionals involved in designing appropriate and effective noncommunicable disease prevention and control programmes. (who.int)
  • Five domains of modifiable risk factors in young adulthood were measured for in the analysis: biological, neighborhood, psychosocial, socioeconomic, and behavioral. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Understanding these factors will provide valuable cues for maintaining high retention rates in future HIV biomedical prevention studies in this cohort. (scirp.org)
  • We aimed to document retention rates and associated factors relevant in conducting future HIV prevention studies using a cohort of HIV exposed sero-negative individuals. (scirp.org)
  • The authors conclude that while this knowledge could be used to help drive prevention initiatives, a simple categorisation of cause of death on death certificates does not capture all the factors that contribute to a child's death or provide the information necessary to develop effective prevention programmes to protect other children [Paper 1]. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Following this review, the Bureau synthesized and grouped the inputs thematically, according to the request of the INB, to provide a composite, coherent working draft that captures as many areas, perspectives and views as possible, taking into account the different stages of a pandemic (prevention, preparedness, response and recovery). (who.int)
  • These challenges also include population growth, loss of biodiversity, and exacerbation of socio-economic inequalities. (onehealthinitiative.com)
  • Apolinário D , Ribeiro AI , Krainski E , Sousa P , Abranches M , Duarte R . Tuberculosis inequalities and socio-economic deprivation in Portugal. (eurosurveillance.org)
  • Policy makers as a result will have the capability to perform data-driven evaluations of the efficiency and effectiveness of proposed policies in terms of expenditure, delivery, wellbeing, and health and socio-economic inequalities, thus improving current policy formulation, delivery risk stratification and evaluation. (ulster.ac.uk)
  • To identify and characterize socio-economic inequalities in professionally administered topical fluoride treatment to schoolchildren. (uwi.edu)
  • The results of the study suggest certain socio-economic inequalities. (uwi.edu)
  • San- the Caribbean and Central America economic inequalities in cancer sur- karanarayanan and Swaminathan, (SurvCan) (Sankaranarayanan et al. (who.int)
  • For example, the Cancer Mission systematically addresses inequalities in its mission work programmes, cancer mission project clusters and one of its flagship actions, in close collaboration with the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan, which aims to establish a network of comprehensive cancer infrastructures in each EU country. (europa.eu)
  • The Plan of action for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases of noncommunicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region represents a step forward in preventing noncommunicable diseases in the Region, and in strengthening regional efforts to implement prevention and control programmes. (who.int)
  • Using two recruitment strategies produced samples with different health risk profiles, which could add value to research where either primary or secondary prevention is of interest. (stir.ac.uk)
  • This is encouraging for combined biomedical prevention strategies where consistent condoms use is desired. (scirp.org)
  • Retention strategies should consider these barriers and predictors of drop out as exclusion criteria in preparation for future HIV biomedical prevention trial. (scirp.org)
  • The cornerstone of SPR's efforts is the Annual Meeting, where the prevention science community, including researchers, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy-makers, come together to discuss advances in prevention science and strategies to achieve this goal. (preventionresearch.org)
  • Prevention science is uniquely positioned to inform science-based efforts to reduce inequality by implementing evidence-based strategies that strengthen individuals, families, schools, and communities and creating opportunities for improved quality of life for all. (preventionresearch.org)
  • Strategies aimed at eliminating such inequalities across the socioeconomic spectrum are necessary if this population group is to follow recommended frequency schedules for topical fluoride applications. (uwi.edu)
  • Politicians should recognise that child survival is as much linked to socioeconomic policies that reduce inequality as it is to a country's overall gross domestic product and systems of health-care delivery. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Ce sous-financement chronique est problématique étant donné les hauts taux de maladies non transmissibles en Nouvelle-Écosse et les inégalités en matière de santé qui existent au sein de la population. (springer.com)
  • The inequalities widen when we focus solely on the male population. (tobaccopreventioncessation.com)
  • This and other federal health-care reform initiatives have provided an unprecedented opportunity to shift the nation from a focus on disease to one based on prevention and population-level health. (preventionresearch.org)
  • Cancer and heart disease are the second and third leading causes of death in this population, but little attention has focused on these women's needs for primary prevention of chronic disease outside of routine screening for cancer (3,4). (cdc.gov)
  • It was found low influence of oral health on quality of life of the preschool children and the assessment of socioeconomic conditions of the children's families may guide practices aiming to reducing inequalities in the distribution of dental caries in the population. (bvsalud.org)
  • A full section is devoted to multiple chapters on the inequalities that affect the distribution of cancer within communities, clearly illustrating that in both high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries, there are groups of people in every community who are at a major disadvantage with respect to risk of cancer. (who.int)
  • Greater reductions in air pollution in more deprived areas are likely to make a small contribution to reducing socioeconomic inequalities in air pollution impacts. (bmj.com)
  • We report the first model-based analysis of these impacts and their socioeconomic variation. (bmj.com)
  • The European Cancer Inequalities Registry is an essential evidence-based policy instrument to help countries identify areas that need to, and can be, improved. (europa.eu)
  • Individual Substance Abuse Prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention involves numerous different sessions depending on the individual to help cease or reduce the use of substances. (wikipedia.org)
  • Furthermore, increased prevention and support, particularly with medication management, for those with mental health conditions may reduce adverse medication effects. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • We do not want any EU country to lag behind, and together, we can and we will reduce cancer inequalities in the EU. (europa.eu)
  • The 2004 Oral Health National Policy aimed to expand access to public services, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, and improve preventative care. (nature.com)
  • Options for prevention include avoiding exposure to carcinogens, for example by smoking cessation, as well as vaccination, screening, monitoring those at high genetic risk, using therapeutics to reduce cancer risk, and emerging molecular technology for early diagnosis. (who.int)
  • For example, primary prevention, early detection and palliative care are often neglected in favour of treatment-oriented approaches, even in cases where these approaches are not cost-effective and cause unnecessary human suffering. (who.int)
  • The Data Tool to explore interactively cancer inequality indicators. (europa.eu)
  • No consensus exists in the United States regarding which indicators should be used to measure socioeconomic inequalities and at which level of geography they should be measured and monitored (2,7). (cdc.gov)
  • While awareness and uptake of PrEP in gay and bisexual men is high (but could always be higher), HIV Prevention England has found that Black African men and women are less likely to know about PrEP and may have misconceptions about what it means, who it is for and how to access it. (tht.org.uk)
  • A national PrEP programme must also understand and seek to address the structural inequalities that drive inequity in PrEP access. (tht.org.uk)
  • Indeed, the five high-income countries with the worst child death rates (USA, New Zealand, Portugal, Canada, and the UK) are also those with the widest inequalities in income. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Studies on how prevention programs or policy implementation have played a role in improving health equity in other countries are encouraged. (preventionresearch.org)
  • Although the results differ by country, the major drivers of inequality include wealth, locality, and gender. (tobaccopreventioncessation.com)
  • The relative and absolute concentration index (RC and AC) were used to measure education-and wealth-related inequalities in the utilization of maternal healthcare services. (edu.au)
  • Substance use prevention efforts typically focus on minors and young adults - especially between 12-35 years of age. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of the present study was to describe dietary patterns by applying a cluster analysis to 9301 children participating in the baseline (2-9 years old) and follow-up (4-11 years old) surveys of the Identification and Prevention of Dietary- and Lifestyle-induced Health Effects in Children and Infants Study, and to describe the cluster memberships of these children over time and their association with SES. (cambridge.org)
  • Extreme income inequality, following Thomas Piketty, is measured as the ratio of the share in total income of the top 1% to that of the bottom 50% at the state level. (livemint.com)
  • It recognises the need to move away from crisis containment to a more structural, long-term, non-linear approach to vulnerabilities, with an emphasis on anticipation, prevention and preparedness. (europa.eu)
  • GSHS data can be obtained from https://www.who.int/ncds/surveillance/gshs/country/en/ . (bmj.com)
  • In stemming this route of new transmission, HIV sero-discordant couples have provided invaluable data for HIV prevention preparedness studies, demonstrating higher retention rates than other cohorts (USAID HIV prevention for Sero-discordant couples technical brief 2010) [8] and therefore suitable for HIV biomedical prevention trials. (scirp.org)
  • The Series highlights a "persistent socioeconomic gradient" for child deaths, with children from deprived backgrounds significantly more likely to die than their wealthier peers [Paper 3]. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Although additional studies are needed to establish causality, the present study suggests that the amelioration of food insecurity could have implications beyond the prevention of its direct consequences. (bmj.com)
  • Based on the foregoing considerations, the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of oral healthrelated quality of life of preschool children of Bauru, State of São Paulo, Brazil, and associate it with socioeconomic profile of households. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Commission's European Cancer Inequalities Registry is helping policy makers and researchers to address them. (europa.eu)
  • Achieving health equity requires focused and ongoing efforts to address avoidable inequalities and historical and contemporary injustices. (preventionresearch.org)
  • The burden of HIV is not evenly distributed, nor is the use of PrEP as a method of HIV prevention. (tht.org.uk)