Coastal proximity and visits are associated with better health but may not buffer health inequalities

Health 'care' interventions: making health inequalities worse, not better?

AIM The aim of this paper is to present a model, the 'Effect of the Professional Ego', which provides a psychodynamically informed analytical framework for examining professional practice in arenas where issues of inequalities need to be addressed. BACKGROUND There is a great deal of literature on the psychosocial aspects of inequalities in health care provision. However, the impact of intrap...

Implementing New Regulation Promotes Health but May Increase Inequality

Vaccination Rates are Associated With Functional Proximity But Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics

BACKGROUND Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of US adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. OBJECTIVE To determine whether employees are significantly more likely to get vaccinated if they have a higher probability of walkin...

short-term pre-pregnancy health education may improve maternal nutrition behavior, but not nutrition self-efficacy

Polymorphisms within Exon 9, But Not Intron 8, of the Vitamin D Receptor Gene Are Associated with Asthma

Objective(s) Deregulation of the immune system through allied factors and cytokine responses are thought to be important contributors to the pathogenesis of asthma. Vitamin D3 and its nuclear receptor appear to be factors that maybe involved in regulating immune responses during the progression of asthma. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between polymorphisms in intron ...