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Explaining Health Inequities — The Enduring Legacy of Historical …

(Just Now) WebMany emphasize intrinsic causes of health inequities, which absolve researchers and their readers of responsibility for intervening (e.g., to provide care or to reform social and economic

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2307312

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The Historical Roots of Racial Disparities in American Health Care

(3 days ago) WebThe physician lent his expertise to Color of Care, a new documentary from the Smithsonian Channel about racial disparities in health—and how to address them. The program, executive produced by

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/historical-roots-racial-disparities-american-health-care-180979800/

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How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - KFF

(4 days ago) WebA Timeline of Policies and Events. This timeline offers a historical view of significant U.S. federal policies and events spanning the early 1800s to today that have influenced present-day health

https://www.kff.org/how-history-has-shaped-racial-and-ethnic-health-disparities-a-timeline-of-policies-and-events/

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A Historical Overview of Health Disparities and the Potential of

(3 days ago) WebThus, in 1977, the British government formed the Research Working Group on Inequalities in Health and selected Sir Douglas Black as its chair. The committee’s report, issued three years later in 1980, became known as the Black Report, and it represents the first attempt by a national government to systematically study,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550690/

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Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities

(3 days ago) WebToward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619. See " Four Hundred Years Since Jamestown: An AJPH Dossier " in volume 109 on page 1309. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”. — Martin Luther King, 1966. There has never been a time in the United States

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727310/

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A history of health and health inequalities Berkeley

(Just Now) WebBelieved to be a 1918 U.S. Public Health Service poster (via Wikimedia Commons) Now, in the fourth period, inequalities appear to be growing “because the new health-producing technologies [are] private goods requiring income to purchase and education (or its correlates) to use effectively.”. The level of education matters more, in …

https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/15/a-history-of-health-and-health-inequalities

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Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy

(Just Now) WebThis article provides historical context and a detailed account of modern structural racism in health care policy, highlighting its role in health care coverage, financing, and quality. Members of

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01466

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Race, Inequality, and Health KFF

(5 days ago) WebThis Health Policy 101 chapter provides an overview of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care and the factors that drive them, including the role of historical events and social

https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-race-inequality-and-health/

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Race, History, and the Science of Health Inequities SPH

(2 days ago) WebRace, History, and the Science of Health Inequities. Markers display the names and locations of individuals killed by lynching at the National Memorial For Peace And Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. …

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2019/race-history-and-the-science-of-health-inequities/

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Historic and Geographic Patterns of Health Inequalities

(9 days ago) WebHistory also provides some examples of success in tackling health inequalities in the UK, a basis on which to build. These range from the Elizabethan Poor Laws of the 16th century to the social welfare programmes developed in the aftermath of the Second World War and the health inequalities strategy put forward for England by the Labour

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/3662/Historic_and_Geographic_Patterns_of_Health_Inequalities_-_report.PDF

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Health inequities and their causes - World Health Organization …

(9 days ago) WebHealth inequities are unfair and could be reduced by the right mix of government policies. Every day 16 000 children die before their fifth birthday. Maternal mortality is a key indicator of health inequity. Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty. 87% of premature deaths due to noncommunicable diseases occur in low- and middle-income …

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes

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Social Inequalities in health: Challenges, knowledge gaps, key …

(2 days ago) WebHealth inequalities refer to the systematic differences in health that exist between socioeconomic positions, social classes, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations or other social groups with differentiated access to material and non-material resources. Throughout its history, health inequality research has generally been committed to

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1403494819866416

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Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

(3 days ago) WebMotivation for studying health inequalities. Despite considerable attention to the problem of health inequalities since the 1980s (), striking differences in health still exist among and within countries today ().In 2010, for example, Haitian men had a healthy life expectancy of 27.8 years, while men in Japan could expect 70.6 years, over twice as …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481045/

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Health equity - World Health Organization (WHO)

(7 days ago) WebKnowledge, monitoring, and analysis make up the backbone of actions needed to achieve equity. Monitoring health inequality must be central to a country’s health information system. This begins with the collection, analysis and reporting of data disaggregated by age, sex, education, income, disability and other factors.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/health-equity

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Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

(7 days ago) WebMotivation for studying health inequalities. Despite considerable attention to the problem of health inequalities since the 1980s (Citation 8), striking differences in health still exist among and within countries today (Citation 9).In 2010, for example, Haitian men had a healthy life expectancy (Citation 10) of 27.8 years, while men in Japan could …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/gha.v8.27106

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Health Equity Timeline - Think Cultural Health

(3 days ago) WebThe report highlighted health disparities by sex, race, and ethnicity, income, education, disability status, and other social characteristics in the U.S. The report also provided analysis and reporting of the recent trends and ongoing variations in health disparities and inequalities in selected social and health indicators.

https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/clas/health-equity-timeline

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A brief history of racism in healthcare World Economic Forum

(1 days ago) WebCOVID-19 has raised awareness of the connection between ethnicity and health today - but there is a long, disturbing history of medical racism. Health and Healthcare Systems A brief history of racism in healthcare Today, medical algorithms are accused of racism and systemic housing inequalities continue to create bad health outcomes.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/medical-racism-history-covid-19/

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Why Racial Inequities Still Persist in Health Care - The New York …

(7 days ago) Web“The topics of racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care are of critical importance,” Dr. Phil B. Fontanarosa, interim editor in chief of JAMA, said in a statement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/health/racial-disparities-health-care.html

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Defining health and health inequalities - PMC - National Center for

(3 days ago) WebResults. A definition of health as a structural, functional and emotional state that is compatible with effective life as an individual and as a member of society and a definition of health inequalities as the systematic, avoidable and unfair differences in health outcomes that can be observed between populations, between social groups …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558275/

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A history of health inequalities in England Studying health

(5 days ago) WebMajor reports on health inequalities (Black, Acheson and Marmot) have persistently emphasised the complex nature of health inequalities and the interrelationship of these with social and structural determinants. However, fundamental drivers of social inequality have not been prioritised following the publication of these reports.

https://academic.oup.com/policy-press-scholarship-online/book/17909/chapter/175711564

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Equally inequitable? A cross-national comparative study of racial

(1 days ago) WebRacial health disparities in the United States are well-known, and well-documented, but the extent of similar inequalities in other wealthy countries are comparatively understudied, even in neighboring countries like Canada. However, initial explorations have suggested that these inequalities are much smaller in America’s …

https://socialequity.duke.edu/research-duke/equally-inequitable-a-cross-national-comparative-study-of-racial-health-inequalities-in-the-united-states-and-canada/

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Childhood immunization in Ghana: Tracing the history and …

(2 days ago) WebIn addressing inequality in vaccine coverage to rural areas and urban slums, national immunization campaigns should be directed at women and children living in these areas. The rapid pace of urbanization demands the need for public health policies to adopt strategies to meet the health needs of children in urban slums .

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/puh2.176

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Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the …

(3 days ago) WebReducing health inequalities remains a challenge for policy makers across the world. Beginning from Lewin’s famous dictum that “there is nothing as practical as a good theory”, this paper begins from an appreciative discussion of ‘fundamental cause theory’, emphasizing the elegance of its theoretical encapsulation of the challenge, the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7894306/

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Join the "EU Election Night 2024" EEAS

(6 days ago) WebThe Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL is a left-wing political group advocating for anti-capitalism, social equality, and environmental sustainability. It supports policies aimed at reducing social and economic inequalities, strengthening public services, and promoting peace and solidarity.

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