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A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
(2013)
The intention of A practitioner’s guide for advancing health equity is to help practitioners and leaders incorporate a health equity view in their collaborations with community organizations. It offers ideas — with stories ...
A new typology of policies to tackle health inequalities and scenarios of impact based on Rose's population approach
(Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2013)
The last decade has witnessed a surge in interest for policies to tackle health inequalities. Adequate theoretical development of policy models is needed to understand how to design and evaluate equity-oriented health ...
Closing the health equity gap: policy options and opportunities for action
(World Health Organization, 2013)
This report, which highlights policy options for consideration within national discussions, was developed in conjunction with WHO regional offices and others across the Organization who are working on the social determinants ...
Socioeconomic Status and Health: Mediating and Moderating Factors
(Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2013-03-28)
Health disparities (differences in health by socioeconomic groups) are a pressing issue in our society. This article provides an overview of a multilevel approach that seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying health ...
Ethnic Minority Development
(2013)
This paper was presented in the sixth China-ASEAN Forum on Social Development and Poverty Reduction, which was held on 26-27 September 2012 in Liuzhou, China. The forum was supported under the UNDP-IPRCC project. Southeast ...
Inequality and inequity in access to health care and treatment for chronic conditions in China: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
(2013)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a large and rapidly-growing problem in China and other middle-income countries. Clinical treatment of NCDs is long-term and expensive, so it may present particular problems for equality ...
The Normative Dimensions of Health Disparities
(Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 2013)
Understanding what conditions must be satisfied for a health inequality to be a health inequity (disparity) is crucial for health policy makers. The failure to understand what constitutes a health inequity, and confusing ...
HEALTH, VITAL GOALS, AND CENTRAL HUMAN CAPABILITIES
(Bioethics, 2013)
I argue for a conception of health as a person’s ability to achieve or exercise a cluster of basic human activities. These basic activities are in turn specified through free-standing ethical reasoning about what constitutes ...