Diversity, inclusion, and health equity

Equity, social inclusion and health promotion: major challenges.

Currently, there are several issues that deserve attention in the area of oral health promotion, such as dental caries, oral health programs and oral cancer. These issues were discussed during the 18th Congress of the Brazilian Association for Oral Health Promotion (Associação Brasileira de Odontologia de Promoção de Saúde ABOPREV), held April 11 to 13, 2013 in Bauru, SP. In the ABOPREV symposi...

Increasing racial/ethnic diversity in nursing to reduce health disparities and achieve health equity.

As nursing continues to advance health care in the 21st century, the current shift in demographics, coupled with the ongoing disparities in health care and health outcomes, will warrant our ongoing attention and action. As within all health professions, concerted efforts are needed to diversify the nation's health-care workforce. The nursing profession in particular will be challenged to recrui...

Health and equity.

In national and international journals, dedication to the subject of social medicine and interrelated issues, such as health equity, social and cultural determinants in health and access to health care, is still rather simplistic. In a scenario of global crisis, Europe and Latin America are facing a time where they must rethink their respective health systems, as in the case of the Unified Heal...

Equity and health.

Diversity and relative arbitrage in equity markets

An equity market is called “diverse” if no single stock is ever allowed to dominate the entire market in terms of relative capitalization. In the context of the standard Itô-process model initiated by Samuelson (1965) we formulate this property (and the allied, successively weaker notions of “weak diversity” and “asymptotic weak diversity”) in precise terms.We show that diversity is possible to...