نتایج جستجو برای: health equity

تعداد نتایج: 999367  

2017
Eric A. Friedman Lawrence O. Gostin

The proposal for a global health treaty aimed at health equity, the Framework Convention on Global Health, raises the fundamental question of whether we can achieve true health equity, globally and domestically, and if not, how close we can come. Considerable knowledge currently exists about the measures required to, at the least, greatly improve health equity. Why, then, do immense inequities ...

2011
Nicolette F Sheridan Timothy W Kenealy Martin J Connolly Faith Mahony P Alan Barber Mary Anne Boyd Peter Carswell Janet Clinton Gerard Devlin Robert Doughty Lorna Dyall Ngaire Kerse John Kolbe Ross Lawrenson Allan Moffitt

INTRODUCTION In all countries people experience different social circumstances that result in avoidable differences in health. In New Zealand, Māori, Pacific peoples, and those with lower socioeconomic status experience higher levels of chronic illness, which is the leading cause of mortality, morbidity and inequitable health outcomes. Whilst the health system can enable a fairer distribution o...

ژورنال: Journal of Research and Health 2013

Equity is the prime virtue of social institutions, and its role is as truth is for human thought system [1]. Equity has been studied in various areas such as economics, politics, and judicial system. One of the areas of social equity that has recently been considered by experts is health. Health is defined as complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Health refers not only to the physi...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 0
keith syrett cardiff school of law and politics, cardiff university, wales, uk

this brief commentary seeks to develop the analysis of daniels, porteny and urrutia of the implications of expansion of the scope of health technology assessment (hta) beyond issues of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. drawing in particular on experience in the united kingdom, it suggests that such expansion can be understood not only as a response to the problem of insufficiency of evi...

Journal: :Health policy and planning 2008
Abdullah H Baqui Amanda M Rosecrans Emma K Williams Praween K Agrawal Saifuddin Ahmed Gary L Darmstadt Vishwajeet Kumar Usha Kiran Dharmendra Panwar Ramesh C Ahuja Vinod K Srivastava Robert E Black Mathuram Santosham

Socio-economic disparities in health have been well documented around the world. This study examines whether NGO facilitation of the government's community-based health programme improved the equity of maternal and newborn health in rural Uttar Pradesh, India. A quasi-experimental study design included one intervention district and one comparison district of rural Uttar Pradesh. A household sur...

2013
Bernadette (Bernie) Pauly Marjorie MacDonald Trevor Hancock Wanda Martin Kathleen Perkin

BACKGROUND Within Canada, many public health leaders have long identified the importance of improving the health of all Canadians especially those who face social and economic disadvantages. Future improvements in population health will be achieved by promoting health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Many Canadian documents, endorsed by government and public health le...

Journal: :Health policy and planning 2012
Anne Mills Mariam Ally Jane Goudge John Gyapong Gemini Mtei

A desire to enhance protection against health care costs and improve equity of access to health care lies at the core of many health sector financing initiatives. Until recently, international debates about financing and health equity have focused primarily on mechanisms to promote equity in relation to very specific elements of health systems. However, in recent years there has been growing in...

Journal: :International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2014

Journal: :Public health reports 2014
Shanita D Williams Kristen Hansen Marian Smithey Josepha Burnley Michelle Koplitz Kirk Koyama Janice Young Alexis Bakos

It is widely accepted that diversifying the nation's health-care workforce is a necessary strategy to increase access to quality health care for all populations, reduce health disparities, and achieve health equity. In this article, we present a conceptual model that utilizes the social determinants of health framework to link nursing workforce diversity and care quality and access to two criti...

2016
Charmaine McPherson Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh Claire Betker Dianne Oickle Nancy Peroff-Johnston

BACKGROUND Effectively addressing the social determinants of health and health equity are critical yet still-emerging areas of public health practice. This is significant for contemporary practice as the egregious impacts of health inequities on health outcomes continue to be revealed. More public health organizations seek to augment internal organizational capacity to address health equity whi...

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