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Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives
(2020-12)
The COVID-19 is disproportionally affecting the poor, minorities and a broad range of vulnerable populations, due to its inequitable spread in areas of dense population and limited mitigation capacity due to high prevalence ...
National health inequality monitoring: current challenges and opportunities
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-12-03)
National health inequality monitoring needs considerably more investment to realize equityoriented health improvements in countries, including advancement towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Following an overview ...
Fostering Health Equity: Clinical and Research Training Strategies from Nursing Education
(The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2009)
Racism, ethnocentrism, segregation, stereotyping, and classism are tightly linked to health equity and social determinants of health. They lead to lack of power, money, resources, and education which may result in poor ...
Big Data and the Study of Social Inequalities in Health: Expectations and Issues
(Frontiers in Public Health, 2018-10-26)
Understanding the construction of the social gradient in health is a major challenge in
the field of social epidemiology, a branch of epidemiology that seeks to understand
how society and its different forms of organization ...
An overview of reviews on strategies to reduce health inequalities
(2020-12)
Background: Governments are incentivized to develop and implement health action programs focused on equity to ensure progress with effective strategies or interventions. Objective: Identify and synthesize strategies or ...