Understanding Health Inequalities

Cohort Profile: Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviours: the GLOBE study.

The main aim of the Gezondheid en Levens Omstandigheden Bevolking Eindhoven en omstreken (GLOBE) study (the letters of whose name represent the first letters of the Dutch acronym for Health and Living Conditions of the Population of Eindhoven and surroundings) is to quantitatively assess mechanisms and factors explaining socio-economic inequalities in health in the Netherlands. Baseline data fo...

Understanding Inequalities in Child Health in Ethiopia: Health Achievements Are Improving in the Period 2000–2011

OBJECTIVE In Ethiopia, coverage of key health services is low, and community based services have been implemented to improve access to key services. This study aims to describe and assess the level and the distribution of health outcomes and coverage for key services in Ethiopia, and their association with socioeconomic and geographic determinants. METHODS Data were obtained from the 2000, 20...

Health Inequalities

Recent policy on inequalities targeting The drive to reduce health inequalities by targeting health improvement action and resources at the most disadvantaged areas, has been a central theme of recent health policy. This has been reflected in the Health Efficiency Access and Treatment (HEAT) Targets which in specific areas, such as smoking cessation , aims to improve the speed of reduction of m...

Health Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pandemics are associated with significant and destructive national and global impacts on health, economy, society, and security. COVID-19 pandemic has imposed adverse economic consequences on the whole population. This is while the elderly and those with comorbidities, the economically disadvantaged and ethnic minorities were at increased risk of viral infection. Moreover, the mortality rate an...

Health Selection and Health Inequalities