• For the case of paediatric injuries, as well as for domestic injuries, variables such as poverty, low socioeconomic position, less privileged social class, ethnic group, urban deprivation, low educational level, and unfavourable family context have shown to be associated with a higher risk of injury morbidity and mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Although population life expectancy in different countries has generally increased with the development of socioeconomic and medical technology, mortality has decreased, but more is the benefit of the upper social population, which exacerbates health inequalities. (ukessays.com)
  • Socioeconomic inequalities were in fact found across the health indicators analysed: functional state, sickness rate, perceived health, mental and emotional health, cognitive state, life quality, mortality and life expectancy. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • The government's health strategy set out in the Health of the Nation includes specific targets for reducing mortality from lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease. (bmj.com)
  • Importantly, epigenetic-BMI was found to prospectively predict adult health and mortality beyond adults' actual BMI. (mpg.de)
  • Thus, tobacco smoking is responsible for the emergence and magnification of socioeconomic inequality in terms of quality of life, morbidity, and mortality ( 9 ). (aerzteblatt.de)
  • Completing mortality data by information on possible socioeconomic inequalities in mortality is crucial for policy planning. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The aim of this study was to build deprivation-specific life tables using the Portuguese version of the European Deprivation Index (EDI) as a measure of area-level socioeconomic deprivation, and to evaluate mortality trends between the periods 2000-2002 and 2010-2012. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Persistent differences in mortality and life expectancy were observed according to ecological socioeconomic deprivation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • While the effect of, for example, age is largely unavoidable, the gap in mortality due to socioeconomic characteristics could be reduced with policies oriented to improve population living conditions and to change the social and economic structures [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The second aim was to evaluate mortality ratios between deprivation groups and trends in inequalities between 2000 and 2002 and 2010-2012 in Portugal. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Social inequalities in multimorbidity, frailty, disability, and transitions to mortality: A 24-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Socioeconomic status is strongly associated with smoking prevalence and social class differences contribute substantially to social inequalities in mortality. (bmj.com)
  • 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Social class differences in smoking contribute substantially to social inequalities in mortality. (bmj.com)
  • Objective The present study sought to identify inequalities in cause-specific mortality across different occupational groups in Korea. (bmj.com)
  • Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between socioeconomic position and mortality in Korea, but there have been few detailed reports of differences between occupation groups because most studies categorise occupations simply into manual and non-manual labour. (bmj.com)
  • Injury, suicide and male liver disease were important contributors to mortality inequality between occupation groups. (bmj.com)
  • Since the Black Report was published by the Working Group on Inequalities in Health in 1980, social inequalities in mortality have been an important public health issue in many countries. (bmj.com)
  • 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)
  • Within the context of universal health coverage and reduction in premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), cervical cancer mortality and morbidity bring to the fore the social and economic inequities across developing and developed countries. (who.int)
  • A new study, led by scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in collaboration with researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center (Netherlands) and other international partners (including Imperial College London, University College London, and the United States National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health), investigated socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality in Europe. (who.int)
  • Investments in infrastructure, health and education coincided with economic growth, urbanisation and mortality decline. (lu.se)
  • 2021. Covid-19 collaborated with the increase in maternal mortality, highlighting interstate inequalities and vulnerabilities in prenatal care, hospital, and socioeconomic infrastructure in the North Region, especially in Roraima and Amazonas. (bvsalud.org)
  • Starting in the early 2000s, the World Health Organization facilitated the academic and political work on social determinants in a way that provided a deep understanding of health disparities in a global perspective. (wikipedia.org)
  • With a series of affirmations and announcements, the Declaration aimed to communicate that the social conditions in which an individual exists were key to understanding health disparities that individual may face, and it called for new policies across the world to fight health disparities, along with global collaborations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research investigating psychosocial factors that contribute to socioeconomic disparities in mental health and wellbeing suggests perceived control, inclusion, and perceived worth to be important underlying mechanisms. (bvsalud.org)
  • Conclusion Socio-economic disparities in health and health care are major concerns in India. (lu.se)
  • These resources are from external organisations, such as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). (medway.gov.uk)
  • Communities are challenged with integrating equity into bicycle duce physical inactivity-related health disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • Examining the realities of racial, social, and gender-related health disparities. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Urbanization level has long been recognized as a key characteristic when studying health disparities among communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Identifying and understanding the underlying causes of the health disparities among communities is key in designing effective public health policies and interventions (4). (cdc.gov)
  • The existence of differences in the impact of injuries among socioeconomic groups has been well documented, similarly to what is known for most health outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • A paper by Hasselberg et al 2 in this issue provides new evidence on the existence of substantial differences in RTIs during childhood and youth between socioeconomic groups in the Swedish population. (bmj.com)
  • Whether such socioeconomic gaps reflect differences in exposure to traffic, in risk factors or in the severity of the outcome, remains to be clarified. (bmj.com)
  • In any society, there is always a gap in people's health, which is largely linked to differences in socioeconomic status. (ukessays.com)
  • To reduce these differences, people do need better health care systems and improved health-related behaviors such as income distribution. (ukessays.com)
  • Productive differences as espoused by the traditional neoclassical as well as the institutions and markets advancement are not sufficient to explain gender inequality. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The social determinants of health (SDOH) are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status. (wikipedia.org)
  • Real price increases in cigarettes could narrow differences between socioeconomic groups in smoking and the related inequalities in health, but specific measures would be necessary to ameliorate effects on the most deprived families that may include members who continue to smoke. (bmj.com)
  • However, lower case fatality was shown for women with higher socioeconomic status, which could be explained by differences in tumour characteristics, treatment factors, comorbidity and lifestyle factors. (ihe.se)
  • There are differences in health outcomes between males and females, older and younger people, ethnic groups, and across geographical areas. (medway.gov.uk)
  • This may suggest that very early life environmental differences, such as those related to social inequality as well as those related to (prenatal) differences between identical twins, may have a critical influence on lifetime epigenetic profiles of later life health. (mpg.de)
  • Added to this are pronounced socioeconomic differences, which are reflected in the fact that socially more disadvantaged subgroups of the population are more likely to smoke and less likely to succeed in their attempts to quit smoking ( 7 , 8 ). (aerzteblatt.de)
  • what are the psychological mechanisms explaining these differences in health? (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Lahelma E., Arber S., Martikainen P., Rahkonen O., Silventoinen K.: Gender differences in health in Britain and in Finland. (helsinki.fi)
  • Martikainen P., Ishizaki M., Marmot M., Nakagawa H., Kagamimori S.: Socioeconomic differences in behavioural and biological risk factors: a comparison of a Japanese and an English cohort of employed men. (helsinki.fi)
  • A distribution of intervention impact across socioeconomic groups can be estimated from socioeconomic differences across a staircase from need (e.g. prevalence) up to intervention characteristics (e.g. effectiveness) using distributional cost effectiveness analysis (DCEA). (york.ac.uk)
  • These two categories were created because of striking differences in several health measures between residents of these two types of counties. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • With reference to significant socioeconomic determinants of health risk and spatial inequality in the Czech Republic, the main goal of the SYRI project is support of healthy life expectancy and reduction of health inequalities, modernization and development of research infrastructure, and building of a database and provision of research outputs for professionals and the general public. (syri.institute)
  • Another aspect they highlight in the study is that elderly women have a longer life expectancy but a worse state of health. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • Our health does not depend exclusively on our genetics or healthcare system, life conditions are very important to enjoy better health, healthier aging and a longer life expectancy. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • provides information on the causes of death and age groups that are driving inequalities in life expectancy at local area level. (medway.gov.uk)
  • They are important demographic tools as they are the basis for the estimation of life expectancy at birth, an important indicator of population health and development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Conclusions Socioeconomic inequalities in work ability among municipal employees correspond to the inequalities in ill health found in general populations. (sjweh.fi)
  • Conclusions Inequalities have been increasingly unfavourable to the worse-off in Portugal, although better-off women are still more likely to smoke. (who.int)
  • Conclusions: Substantial socioeconomic inequalities in frailty were observed in LMICs, but additional research is needed to find explanations for these. (eur.nl)
  • We used DCEAs in smoking cessation and alcohol interventions to explore how socioeconomic inequality in model inputs impacts upon final conclusions about health inequality and value for money. (york.ac.uk)
  • Still, these results underscore the need to consider socioeconomic inequities when designing policy interventions in the field of RTI prevention. (bmj.com)
  • Appropriate intervention design should prioritize minimizing socioeconomic inequities in MDD, especially targeting the contributing factors of these inequities. (unl.edu)
  • While we should aim to reduce health inequalities across all society, actions must be focused and increased in proportion to the level of disadvantage. (medway.gov.uk)
  • Could Easier Access to University Improve Health and Reduce Health Inequalities? (repec.org)
  • In a longitudinal study of a large sample of Americans, the authors found that people with a low socioeconomic status (SES) gained more weight during the Covid-19 pandemic, further exacerbating their vulnerability to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. (insead.edu)
  • These findings demonstrate how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health inequalities and provides insights for market-based and government solutions. (insead.edu)
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms. (bvsalud.org)
  • Women (trapped in low paid and "unattractive" sectors just like healthcare), elderly, migrants and atypical workers are the ones who, prior to the pandemic, already suffered from inequalities in access to appropriate healthcare. (etuc.org)
  • By ignoring social inequalities, a vicious circle is reinforced whereby the more socially and economically disadvantaged a person is, the more his needs remain unmet, the more likely they are to suffer from health conditions, especially during a pandemic. (etuc.org)
  • Describe the impact of telehealth on health equity from the perspective of large healthcare systems, describe lessons learned from healthcare systems experiences and using telehealth to address health equity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, list strategies to address health equity and telehealth, and discuss CDC's health equity and telehealth initiatives and recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • In her brief presentation Dr. Liburd described telehealth access as one actionable step through which health equity may be promoted, and she did so specifically in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Added to this, the emergence of the conditions of the population, the capacity of pandemic caused by the new coronavirus the health system to respond to health needs, in (SARS CoV-2), which brought the biggest addition to providing information on the quality public health crisis of the 21st century. (bvsalud.org)
  • A relative index of inequality (RII) was calculated to compare socioeconomic inequalities in frailty between countries. (eur.nl)
  • Gaining in-depth knowledge about the socioeconomic inequalities in health which affect the elderly population is an indispensable first step when it comes to designing suitable interventions and strategies aimed at reducing these inequalities. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • Understanding predisposing factors for meningococcal carriage may identify targets for public health interventions. (cdc.gov)
  • Greater knowledge of risk factors for meningococcal carriage may help to identify useful public health interventions. (cdc.gov)
  • In response to the cervical cancer burden, WHO has developed a global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem, which proposes cost-effective interventions. (who.int)
  • The objective of this regional framework is to contribute to the global goal of accelerating the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem by reducing the age-adjusted incidence rate of cervical cancer to less than 4 per 100 000 women by implementing interventions to reach the vaccination, screening and treatment targets set for 2030. (who.int)
  • The framework sets targets and milestones and defines guiding principles and priority interventions to guide Member States in accelerating the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem in the Region. (who.int)
  • In this paper we present a new regression approach that decomposes the correlation between socioeconomic conditions and health outcomes more directly than has been done so far. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Currently, it is difficult to track social, economic, environmental and health outcomes in cities with high spatial and temporal resolution, needed to evaluate policies regarding urban inequalities. (nature.com)
  • The Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) has in collaboration with Lund University performed a systematic literature review and meta-analysis on the association between socioeconomic status and breast cancer outcomes in Europe. (ihe.se)
  • Additionally, these risk factors and chronic conditions are related to adverse reproductive health outcomes, including cesarean delivery, eclampsia, perinatal infections and complications, preterm delivery, low birth weight, and infant death (9-13). (cdc.gov)
  • Preventing and managing these risk factors and conditions in women of reproductive age may improve pregnancy outcomes and the overall health of women. (cdc.gov)
  • The surveillance of trends among women of reproductive age in indicators related to adverse birth outcomes and development of chronic disease can identify groups at increased risk and guide public health prevention and management efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • Background Southern European countries were traditionally characterized by a higher prevalence of smoking among high socioeconomic groups. (who.int)
  • Results: People in lower socioeconomic positions had higher prevalence rates of frailty. (eur.nl)
  • Mediation analyses revealed that the chronic diseases considered in this study do not explain the higher prevalence of frailty seen in lower socioeconomic groups. (eur.nl)
  • Price significantly affected smoking prevalence in socioeconomic group V (-0.6 for men and -0.5 for women) and for all women (-0.2). (bmj.com)
  • 1- 4 Not only are social inequalities in smoking prevalence pervasive, but they have been widening in such countries as Australia, the UK, the USA, Spain, Italy and Denmark in the past few decades. (bmj.com)
  • 1 Unless action is taken to address the high prevalence of smoking among lower SES groups, we can expect a future widening of social inequalities in health. (bmj.com)
  • We calculated prevalence ratios over time to assess trends for 4 selected risk factors and 4 chronic conditions, accounting for age, race/ethnicity, education, health care coverage, and individual states. (cdc.gov)
  • Measuring socioeconomic inequalities in health / by Anton E. Kunst and Johan P. Mackenbach. (who.int)
  • Measuring socio-economic gender inequality: towards an alternative to the UNDP gender-related development index. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • We applied a deep learning approach to street images for measuring spatial distributions of income, education, unemployment, housing, living environment, health and crime. (nature.com)
  • Measuring urban inequalities at high spatial and temporal resolution is crucial for informing and evaluating policies. (nature.com)
  • Reducing the uneven distribution of social and economic resources and reducing inequality in social and economic status are the most effective and fundamental ways to solve health inequalities and improve national health. (ukessays.com)
  • The study also concludes that higher educational attainment and the maintaining of adequate pensions may be key policies that contribute towards reducing inequalities in this population group. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • Reducing inequalities is at the forefront of global sustainable development agenda 12 , and is a policy objective in cities such as London 13 , 14 . (nature.com)
  • Here are some useful links for further information and data related to reducing health inequalities. (medway.gov.uk)
  • Reducing health inequalities is a matter of fairness and social justice. (medway.gov.uk)
  • Moreover, there is a growing recognition of the role that better health can play in reducing poverty. (who.int)
  • promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing risk factors to human health that arise from environmental, economic, social and behavioural causes. (who.int)
  • The association between the work ability index with socioeconomic status was examined by fitting logistic regression models. (sjweh.fi)
  • Socioeconomic status was measured by the educational and income levels of respondents. (who.int)
  • Results Among men, smoking was initially more concentrated in high-socioeconomic status individuals (RII = 0.84, 95% Confidence Intervals [95% CI] 0.76-0.93, 1987) but this pattern reversed in the last survey (RII = 1.49, 95% CI 1.34-1.65, 2005/6). (who.int)
  • We conduct a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between subjective experiences of economic scarcity, as indexed by low subjective socioeconomic status at the individual level, and income inequality at the national level, and various self-reported measures linked to morality. (nature.com)
  • Our findings demonstrate that low subjective socioeconomic status at the individual level, and income inequality at the national level, are associated with higher levels of moral identity, higher morality-as-cooperation, a larger moral circle, and increased prosocial intentions. (nature.com)
  • Finally, exploratory analyses indicate that observed income inequality at the national level is not a statistically significant moderator of the associations between subjective socioeconomic status and the included measures of morality. (nature.com)
  • The rapid development of medicine has greatly improved the health of all human beings, but the difference in socioeconomic status has led to inequality in health. (ukessays.com)
  • People with higher socioeconomic status are able to pay for the daily medical expenses, and the education they receive allows them to understand the importance of health. (ukessays.com)
  • Conversely, in people with low socioeconomic status, there are high rates of harmful behaviors such as smoking, lack of exercise, and long-term consumption of junk food. (ukessays.com)
  • The difference in social class determines the distribution of national health in a pyramid-like way in terms of material and social psychological pressures - whenever a socioeconomic status is upgraded to a higher level, it corresponds to a healthier population. (ukessays.com)
  • It is widely believed that the health status of groups with higher socioeconomic status is significantly better than those with lower socioeconomic status, and this trend has not changed with time. (ukessays.com)
  • This study is a really good example of the extent to which health inequality is associated with socioeconomic status throughout Europe. (ukessays.com)
  • The health effects of socioeconomic status also include children and adolescents. (ukessays.com)
  • those who had poor health in childhood had significantly lower education level and social stratum in adulthood, and their health status was also poor. (ukessays.com)
  • In A. Börsch-Supan, J. Bristle, K. Andersen-Ranberg, A. Brugiavini, F. Jusot, H. Litwin & G. Weber (Ed.), Health and socio-economic status over the life course: First results from SHARE Waves 6 and 7 (pp. 99-106). (degruyter.com)
  • The concentration index (CIX) value for inequalities in MDD due to wealth status was positive and the concentration curve lay below the line of equality (CIX: 0.1211, p (unl.edu)
  • MDD was higher among higher socioeconomic status (SES) groups. (unl.edu)
  • Given that lower socioeconomic status (SES) students typically have poorer mental health and wellbeing than their peers, this may be, in part, caused by an increase in the number of students attending university from lower SES backgrounds. (bvsalud.org)
  • Economic status (62.3%), pension support (11.5%), health insurance coverage (11.5%), social caste (10.7%) and place of residence (4.1%) were important contributors to inequalities in poor health. (lu.se)
  • The results indicated a significant association between higher socioeconomic status and increased breast cancer incidence, which may be explained by reproductive factors, participation in mammography screening, hormone replacement therapy and lifestyle factors. (ihe.se)
  • Socioeconomic status at birth was most strongly associated with epigenetic-BMI, which was pretty stable across adolescence. (mpg.de)
  • 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)
  • Tobacco consumption is very high in Germany compared to other countries in Western and Northern Europe, and its distribution across the population is markedly uneven, with a heavy influence of socioeconomic status. (aerzteblatt.de)
  • Ferrie J.E., Martikainen P., Shipley M.S., Marmot M.G., Stansfeld S., Davey Smith G.: Employment status and health after privatisation in white-collar civil servants: prospective cohort study. (helsinki.fi)
  • Socioeconomic status, workplace characteristics and plasma fibrinogen level in Japanese male employees. (helsinki.fi)
  • Jalovaara M.: Divorce by family composition and socioeconomic status in Finnish first marriages. (helsinki.fi)
  • Lower socioeconomic status was associated with lower awareness of the harms of smoking and misunderstanding around nicotine. (bmj.com)
  • Socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly associated with smoking behaviour. (bmj.com)
  • Health status, emotional well-being, and social cohesion are influenced by the physical, social, and cultural dimensions of the individual's or community's environment and personal attributes (e.g., behavior patterns, psychology, genetics). (cdc.gov)
  • structure, place of residence, and health status. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, the impact of children's health insurance status on access to care is described. (cdc.gov)
  • We sometimes believe that just by having a universal healthcare system we are already making everyone have better health, but health is not taken care of through healthcare policies alone, but also through urban, employment policies, etc. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • Objective The objectives of this study were to measure socio-economic inequalities in self-reported health (SRH) and healthcare visits and to identify factors contributing to health inequalities among older people aged 50-plus years. (lu.se)
  • We estimated the concentration index to measure socio-economic inequalities in SRH and healthcare visits. (lu.se)
  • 0.141) and healthcare visits 0.364 (95% CI: 0.324, 0.403) indicated pro-poor and pro-rich inequality, respectively. (lu.se)
  • 2002 . Social inequalities in health within countries: not only an issue for affluent nations . (ajtmh.org)
  • Adjusting for physical stress accounted for a substantial part of the socioeconomic inequalities. (sjweh.fi)
  • The aim of this article is to synthesize the various views of gender inequality and various indicators used to measure it. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The Measurement of Socio-economic Gender Inequality Revisited. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • 1999. "Gender Inequality, Income and Growth: Are Good Times Good for Women? (uni-muenchen.de)
  • To study the effects of childhood environments on adult health and well-being, researchers examined epigenetic profiles of children using algorithms developed in adults. (mpg.de)
  • The researchers investigated the lasting effects of childhood environments and development on adult health and well-being. (mpg.de)
  • The "long arm of childhood" is a phenomenon that describes the lasting effects of childhood environments and development on adult health and well-being. (mpg.de)
  • But understanding and intervening on the long arm of childhood is difficult because the effects of childhood environments can take decades to become visible in adult health and well-being. (mpg.de)
  • Because the epigenetic profiles were computed using algorithms developed in adults, this indicates a molecular link between childhood environments and adult health. (mpg.de)
  • Main outcome measures: Educational level and wealth were used as socioeconomic indicators. (eur.nl)
  • Despite the existence of reviews on an international level and European studies that point to these inequalities in the elderly population in a range of health indicators, there are very few reviews about this population group in Spain. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • In the conclusion to the study the researchers confirm that there are socioeconomic inequalities in health among the elderly population and that their magnitude varies according to sex in some health indicators. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • Educational attainment and ecological indices were the indicators that reflected the most inequalities in health. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • The method can be applied to both rank-dependent and level-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Our findings demonstrate that street imagery has the potential complement traditional survey-based and administrative data sources for high-resolution urban surveillance to measure inequalities and monitor the impacts of policies that aim to address them. (nature.com)
  • African countries need 'Green Growth' to address education and health-related inequalities that hinder socio-economic development on the continent and are likely to exacerbate the negative impacts of climate change, according to a recently released report. (org.in)
  • Kimhi, Ayal (2008) Male Income, Female Income, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: A Decomposition Analysis* Discussion Paper No. 17.08 The Center for Agricultural Economic Research. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Regression-based decomposition analysis was employed to explore the correlates contributing to poor SRH inequality. (lu.se)
  • Income Inequality Effects of Ukraine's Trade Liberalization with the EU. (repec.org)
  • The first level of the model (at the extreme right) includes individual biology and other personal characteristics, such as age, education, income, and health history. (cdc.gov)
  • The third level, community, explores the settings in which people have social relationships, such as schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods, and seeks to identify the characteristics of these settings that affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • Further, county-level measures of health, social, and economic characteristics are widely available, in contrast to the paucity of data available at the sub-county level. (cdc.gov)
  • And the profession will not only affect the individual's economic source but also affect the individual's health through the working environment. (ukessays.com)
  • In a society where social and economic resources are highly unevenly distributed, the health of all members, including the richest and most privileged, will be negatively affected. (ukessays.com)
  • With the development of medical technology and economic level, health inequality will be reduced. (ukessays.com)
  • The socio-economic-health gradient caps around retirement in the Communal States and a multitude of European outbacks. (gonato.com)
  • Urban landscapes and inequalities can also change due to processes like gentrification, urban decline, and changes in cities' economic activities. (nature.com)
  • and "This unequal distribution of health-damaging experiences is not in any sense a 'natural' phenomenon but is the result of a toxic combination of poor social policies, unfair economic arrangements [where the already well-off and healthy become even richer and the poor who are already more likely to be ill become even poorer], and bad politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Socio‑economic inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Bangl" by Satyajit Kundu, Pranta Das et al. (unl.edu)
  • This study aimed to measure the socio-economic inequalities in having minimum dietary diversity (MDD) among Bangladeshi children aged 6-23 months as well as to determine the factors that potentially contribute to the inequity. (unl.edu)
  • Education and health: long-run effects of peers, tracking and years ," Economic Policy , CEPR;CES;MSH, vol. 36(105), pages 3-49. (repec.org)
  • She is also involved in several research projects such as the 3WE (Work, Well-being and Women in Ethiopia) project and the Future Positive project in which a micro-intervention was developed to increase health behaviors of employees with a low socio-economic position (SEP). (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • With industrialisation, the Gini index, which measures socioeconomic inequality, decreased gradually up until the mid-1990s, but this trend reversed with the financial crisis in the mid-1990s and the subsequent economic, social and political changes. (bmj.com)
  • Economic and social policies to date have focused excessively on fiscal discipline rather than on public investment in health and care, this crisis clearly showing that this was to the detriment of the people in general. (etuc.org)
  • The European Economic Governance (EEG) repeatedly emphasised that, as the population is ageing fast, the costs of health needs of the elderly will soon be unsustainable for public budgets. (etuc.org)
  • Health system weaknesses, poor health and cancer literacy, as well as social, cultural, economic and gender-based barriers that are prevalent in the African Region have resulted in increased vulnerability and poor access to cervical cancer prevention and control services for women and girls in Africa. (who.int)
  • It is increasingly evident that achieving better health depends on many social, economic, political and cultural factors, in addition to health services. (who.int)
  • The NHIS is a continuing are best ensured by a ``medical home,'' and contagious diseases, recent household survey of the civilian or usual source of health care that is noninstitutionalized population of the economic and social changes have accessible and offers continuous, United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Results There was a consistent gradient in work ability, lower socioeconomic groups having poorer work ability. (sjweh.fi)
  • Indeed, higher cessation rates were observed among high-socioeconomic groups among all respondents (RII = 0.89, 95% CI 0.84-0.95), coupled with higher initiation rates among the worse-off in younger cohorts (RII = 1.18, 95% CI 1.05-1.31, for youngest generation, 2005/6). (who.int)
  • Price elasticities of demand for cigarettes (percentage change in cigarette consumption for a 1% change in price) were significant at -0.5 (95% confidence interval -0.8 to -0.1) for men and -0.6 (-0.9 to -0.3) for women, were highest in socioeconomic group V (-1.0 for men and -0.9 for women), and lowest (not significantly different from zero) in socioeconomic groups I and II. (bmj.com)
  • There was a significant decrease in smoking over time by women in socioeconomic groups I and II and by men in all age and social groups except socioeconomic group V attributable to health publicity. (bmj.com)
  • Men and women in lower socioeconomic groups are more responsive than are those in higher socioeconomic groups to changes in the price of cigarettes and less to health publicity. (bmj.com)
  • This paper is a report on the outputs of a three-year cooperative agreement between NIOSH and The University of Texas School of Public Health , which led to subject matter expert work shops in 2020 and an international conference of global interest groups in 2021. (cdc.gov)
  • They are the health promoting factors found in one's living and working conditions (such as the distribution of income, wealth, influence, and power), rather than individual risk factors (such as behavioral risk factors or genetics) that influence the risk for a disease, or vulnerability to disease or injury. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although many advances have been made to rectify gaps in occupational health within the past half century, still many persist due to the complex overlapping of occupational health and social factors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Do Socioeconomic Factors Really Explain Income-Related Inequalities in Health? (lu.se)
  • The inequalities can result from individual factors such as different lifestyle behaviours, namely, smoking, alcohol, physical activity and dietary habits, different health literacy or access to health care, among other factors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The social ecological model conceptualizes health broadly and focuses on multiple factors that might affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • The same environment may have different effects on an individual's health depending on a variety of factors, including perceptions of ability to control the environment and financial resources. (cdc.gov)
  • To inform its health promotion programs, CDC (2007) created a four-level model of the factors affecting health that is grounded in social ecological theory, as illustrated in Figure 1.2. (cdc.gov)
  • Finally, the fourth level looks at the broad societal factors that favor or impair health. (cdc.gov)
  • The CDC model enables community-engaged partnerships to identify a comprehensive list of factors that contribute to poor health and develop a broad approach to health problems that involves actions at many levels to produce and reinforce change. (cdc.gov)
  • The Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2017-2018 data were used in this study. (unl.edu)
  • Social Assistance and Mental Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Data on Pharmaceutical Consumption ," Working Papers 2018:2, Lund University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
  • Inequalities in Labour Market Consequences of Common Mental Disorders ," Working Papers 2018:15, Lund University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
  • However, such rich data are rare and in most countries and cities, measurement of urban inequalities poses a significant challenge because data on different social, environmental, and health measures come from varied sources, with different spatial resolutions and frequencies, and are often collected using costly processes. (nature.com)
  • There can also be ecological deprivation inequalities, defined by varying levels of availability of services or measures of the wellbeing of the population of a given area. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In a retrospective, cross-sectional study, data from the Statistical Centre of Iran were used to calculate inequality measures (Gini coefficient and index of dissimilarity) over the years 2005-11. (who.int)
  • Communities in the United States differ considerably on measures of health. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, residents of central cities in metropolitan areas of 1 million or more population fare worse on many health measures than do residents of the suburban areas surrounding the central cities. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods We used data from the four Portuguese national health interview surveys (N = 120,140) carried out so far. (who.int)
  • Methods Individual-level data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey from 89 countries were used (370 719 adolescents, aged 12-17 years). (bmj.com)
  • In recent years several regression-based decomposition methods have been developed in order to identify the main determinants of socioeconomic inequality of health. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Methods We accessed data of 7150 older adults from the World Health Organization's Study on Global AGEing and adult health Indian survey. (lu.se)
  • A mixed-methods process evaluation was performed among occupational health professionals (OHPs) and lower SEP workers with problems on multiple life domains. (lww.com)
  • ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate inequalities in the geographical distribution of human and physical resources in the health sector of Kermanshah province, Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • Your Name ) thought you would like to see this page from the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health web site. (bmj.com)
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2001;55(7):494-9. (helsinki.fi)
  • A socioeconomic deprivation level was assigned to each parish according to the quintile of their national EDI distribution. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate socioeconomic inequalities in work ability among municipal employees and the contribution of work conditions to these inequalities. (sjweh.fi)
  • This study investigates socioeconomic inequality in emotional symptoms, self-efficacy and social competence. (health-inequalities.eu)
  • Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate socioeconomic inequalities in frailty among older adults in six low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and to examine to what extent chronic diseases account for these inequalities. (eur.nl)
  • Study design: Data were used from the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) wave 1 (2007-2010). (eur.nl)
  • A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country concludes that health inequalities could be reduced by improving the socioeconomic situation of the elderly. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • The study of socioeconomic inequalities in the Spanish sphere is a subject of growing interest, but most of the studies deal with the general population. (globalhealthnewswire.com)
  • We illustrate our method by means of an empirical study using Australian health and income data. (ox.ac.uk)
  • 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)
  • The local consultant in communicable disease control (public health) asked schools and colleges in their health authority area to participate in the study, with the aim of selecting a sample of schools that broadly represented the social diversity of that population. (cdc.gov)
  • Mental Health Before and After Retirement-Assessing the Relevance of Psychosocial Working Conditions: The Whitehall II Prospective Study of British Civil Servants. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • This study examines SES variations in knowledge of the health effects of smoking and thereby sheds light on the mechanism of the SES-smoking relationship. (bmj.com)
  • This study evaluated an intervention to identify and solve problems on multiple life domains, called "Grip on Health. (lww.com)
  • This study evaluated an intervention that occupational health professionals can use to support lower SEP workers with solving problems on multiple life domains. (lww.com)
  • Generally, inequalities in the distribution of health care resources were lower at the end of the study period, although there was potential for more equitable distribution of pharmacists, specialists, health houses and beds. (who.int)
  • NCHS data systems are often used to study the association between urbanization level of residence and health and to monitor the health of urban and rural residents. (cdc.gov)
  • They were the principal investigators of a Rockefeller-funded grant to study heterosexual transmission of HIV in Uganda, and UCSF loaned two of its young faculty members to oversee this grant and work in Kampala, Uganda, before Global Health or any of that existed. (medscape.com)
  • Discussion The findings indicate that socioeconomic inequalities exist in the risk of intentional injuries among adolescents. (bmj.com)
  • Mechanisms of life-course socioeconomic inequalities in adult systemic inflammation: Findings from two cohort studies. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • For physical resources, the highest and lowest Gini coefficients were for rehabilitation centres in 2010 (0.59) and health houses in 2011 (0.12) respectively. (who.int)
  • Le coefficient de Gini le plus élevé pour les ressources humaines a été observé chez les pharmaciens en 2005 (0,75) et le plus faible chez les personnels paramédicaux en 2010 et 2011 (0,10). (who.int)
  • In the area of motor vehicle injury prevention, the Haddon matrix has proved to be a useful conceptual tool to apply basic principles of public health to traffic safety, 4 later extended to other types of injuries. (bmj.com)
  • Given that the population of older adults in many LMICs is expanding at a greater rate than in many high-income countries, our results indicate an urgent public health need to address frailty in these countries. (eur.nl)
  • Public Health , 141 , 32-41. (lu.se)
  • What are the implications for public health practice? (cdc.gov)
  • The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • An Intro to History, Politics, & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr. (harvard.edu)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health , 50 (5), 538-541. (uu.nl)
  • Results have implications for public health intervention development, implementation, and analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • Susan Desmond-Hellmann's remarkable career includes leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry, academia, and global public health. (medscape.com)
  • In this One-on-One interview with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol, she talks about the many chapters of her career, focusing on the launch of a "precision public health" movement in her current role as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (medscape.com)
  • After training in public health at Berkeley, you went to Uganda for a couple of years, right? (medscape.com)
  • Mental stress and problems in the social environment were not clearly associated with the inequalities. (sjweh.fi)
  • Physical stress at work explained a large part of the inequality. (sjweh.fi)
  • Development of policies to support occupations linked with a lower socioeconomic position should be prioritised. (bmj.com)
  • However, food insecurity remains pervasive, contributing to socioeconomic health inequalities. (bmj.com)
  • Italy is at the top of the ranking for the extent of inequality. (etuc.org)
  • Discuss the extent to which Grip on Health can reach and fits lower SEP workers with problems on multiple life domains. (lww.com)
  • The extent to which evidence on inequality at different steps of the staircase contributes to uncertainty in population level impact is not well understood. (york.ac.uk)
  • The sample included called attention to new challenges to comprehensive, family-centered, 16,907 children from infants through 17 children's health and their need for coordinated, and compassionate care (1). (cdc.gov)
  • According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 6 million people die every year as a result of tobacco-related diseases ( 1 ). (aerzteblatt.de)
  • Development of approaches such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)'s Total Work er Health ® concept and the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Healthy Work place Framework are concrete examples of how OSH can incorporate a new focus with a wider view. (cdc.gov)
  • This broad approach to thinking of health, advanced in the 1947 Constitution of the World Health Organization, includes physical, mental, and social well-being (World Health Organization, 1947). (cdc.gov)
  • 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) to 20154-6. (bvsalud.org)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health 2001;27(4):287-291. (helsinki.fi)
  • C.B. and M.H. are board members of AKC (Dutch expert center for occupational labor experts) and editorial board members of the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. (lww.com)
  • Consequently, the present research seeks to examine fulfilment of perceived control, inclusion, perceived worth, and competence needs as potential mediators in the relationship between subjective SES and mental health and wellbeing in university students . (bvsalud.org)
  • In line with prior research , we found evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among students . (bvsalud.org)
  • Research in this area marks a first step to improve socioeconomic equality within Higher Education . (bvsalud.org)
  • 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)
  • Education and Health: Long-run Effects of Peers, Tracking and Years ," Working Paper Series 1300, Research Institute of Industrial Economics. (repec.org)
  • Her research interests include research into explaining the (psychological) processes underlying health inequalities between people with a low and higher SEP, with a specific focus on these processes during adolescence. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • This research investigated socioeconomic and country variations in smokers' knowledge that smoking causes heart disease, stroke, impotence and lung cancer, that smoke contains cyanide, mercury, arsenic and carbon monoxide, and whether nicotine causes most of the cancer. (bmj.com)
  • This research fills a major gap in the current knowledge and mapping of socioeconomic inequalities in cancer in European countries, by providing a comprehensive and comparative assessment of several aspects of cancer inequalities between and within countries. (who.int)
  • In addition to the concepts just summarized, the literature provides models and frameworks for understanding health promotion and health research that can be helpful in the practice of community engagement. (cdc.gov)
  • This seminar is taking place at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, in the Richard Doll Building. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Workers with a lower socioeconomic position (SEP) often face problems on multiple life domains. (lww.com)
  • Grip on Health can support lower SEP workers with solving problems on multiple life domains. (lww.com)
  • Learn how occupational health professionals delivered the Grip on Health intervention among lower socioeconomic position (SEP) workers in occupational health practice. (lww.com)
  • Data (N=1827) were collected in the age-group-based medical check-ups by occupational health personnel. (sjweh.fi)
  • GSHS data can be obtained from https://www.who.int/ncds/surveillance/gshs/country/en/ . (bmj.com)
  • Data from the 2001 to 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a representative state-based telephone survey of health behavior in US adults, was analyzed for 327,917 women of reproductive age, 18 to 44 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from the 1993 Access to Care partially on their access to health care employs preventive and and Health Insurance questionnaires of services. (cdc.gov)
  • There is widespread recognition that the world of work is changing, and agreement is growing that the occupational safety and health (OSH) field must change to contribute to the protection of work ers now and in the future. (cdc.gov)
  • Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 2001;6(1):26-42. (helsinki.fi)
  • The core of our composite response variable consists of the product of an individual's health outcome and the rank or level the individual attains in the socioeconomic distribution, depending on whether a rank-dependent or level-dependent indicator is decomposed. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The largest inequalities in frailty were found in Mexico (RII 3.7, 95% CI 2.1-6.4), and the smallest inequalities in Ghana (RII 1.1, 95% CI 0.7-1.8). (eur.nl)
  • The existence of these behaviors makes it difficult to solve health problems. (ukessays.com)
  • This approach focuses on integrating approaches to change the physical and social environments rather than modifying only individual health behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • The pattern among women evolved towards a reduction of inequality, which however remained favourable to the worse-off. (who.int)
  • EPSU have repeatedly denounced the drastic reduction in public expenditure in health and long-term care as outrageous and anachronistic. (etuc.org)
  • This is most important when keeping in mind the highly negative prospects regarding the expected health impact of RTIs in the world, predicted to be the second leading cause of years of life lost and the third leading cause of disability adjusted life years in 2020. (bmj.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 Health Returns of University Eligibility ," Working Papers 2020:7, Lund University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
  • On September 15, 2020, the COCA webinar on telehealth and health equity involved comment by our office director Dr. (cdc.gov)