Inequalities in health

Socioeconomic inequalities in health among school-aged adolescents in Tehran

Background: Socioeconomic status has been found to have a significant impact on the health as well as risk behaviors of adolescents across different contexts. This study was conducted to assess the effect of social relations adjusted by social class on physical and psychological well-being of adolescences in Teheran, Iran.     Methods: This was a cross- sectional study and car...

Inequalities in child health.

Reducing Inequalities in Health

Gender Inequalities in Health

Inequalities in health.

In vol.78, issue no.1 of the Bulletin, Davidson Gwatkin’s critical reflection (1) argues that strategies such as primary health care within the health-for-all concept have failed to address inequalities in health, and that new ones are needed to deal more effectively with the problems of poverty and ill-health. In this context, he mentions a new strategy to be developed by a task force establis...