The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of reported hypertension among the elderly in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, identifying related factors, the use of healthcare services, and knowledge and practices related to treatment options. This was a cross-sectional population-based study, with stratified clustered multiple-stage sampling. Data analysis for the 426 individuals (60 ye...

Background Healthcare in developing countries faces a number of challenges due to economic constraints, poor infrastructure, a shortage of trained clincial staff, extreme climate and geographical barriers among others. Information and communication technologies are seen as one approach to address these issues and improve inequalities in healthcare facing low and middle income countries. In part...

The lack of health insurance is traditionally considered a problem faced by individuals and their families. However, because of the geographically bounded organization and funding of healthcare in the United States, levels of uninsurance in a community may affect everyone living there. Health economists have examined how the effects of uninsurance spillover from the uninsured to the insured, ne...

What is known on this subject . Care homes play a significant role in UK healthcare. Almost one in five of the population of England and Wales, and a third of those aged 85 years or over, will die in a care home. . here is very little data on the ethnicity of care home residents or staff, or the implications that this will have for care preferences, or the care that is provided towards the end ...

North America is a large, diverse continent, which has longstanding history of inequality for its population. These historical inequalities continue to impact health outcomes and access healthcare non-majority groups. To ensure the best patients, pediatric orthopaedic surgeons must be aware these inequities in order combat them minimize their effects.

Minkowski type inequalities for the seminormed fuzzy integrals on abstract spaces are studied in a rather general form. Also related inequalities to Minkowski type inequality for the seminormed fuzzy integrals on abstract spaces are studied. Several examples are given to illustrate the validity of theorems. Some results on Chebyshev and Minkowski type inequalities are obtained.

Researchers in the field of religious studies have been actively exploring moral implications pandemic from various angles. They investigated healthcare ethics, addressing issues such as allocation limited resources, vaccination prioritization, and ethical responsibilities workers. These scholars drawn on ideas values to inform decision-making, emphasizing justice, equity, compassion, solidarit...

BACKGROUND To explore inequalities in the provision of hip/knee replacement surgery and produce small-area estimates of provision to inform local health planning. METHODS Hospital Episode Statistics were used to explore inequalities in the provision of primary hip/knee operations in English NHS hospitals in 2002. Multilevel Poisson regression modelling was used to estimate rates of surgical p...

Clear definitions and measurement of preventive health behaviors, as well as the relevant demographic and socioeconomic variables, is important to understanding what factors explain inequalities in health and in the use of health care services. This commentary addresses issues related to the measurement of preventive health behaviors and suggests a distinction between personal life style behavi...