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Health Equity Fact Sheet Health Equity CDC

(9 days ago) WEBThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to ensuring health equity is embedded in an all-of-public health approach to overcoming persistent health disparities and health inequities across a range of population groups that …

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/core/fact-sheet/index.html

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Measuring health inequalities: a systematic review of widely used

(3 days ago) WEBIntroduction. Strong efforts to tackle health inequalities can be seen at international and national level since the 1980s. In early 2008, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Commission on Social Determinants of Health called for action on the social determinants of health, the conditions in which persons are born, grow, work, live, and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7945367/

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Health inequities and their causes - World Health Organization …

(9 days ago) WEBHealth inequities are unfair and could be reduced by the right mix of government policies. Every day 16 000 children die before their fifth birthday. Maternal mortality is a key indicator of health inequity. Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty. 87% of premature deaths due to noncommunicable diseases occur in low- and middle-income countries.

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes

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2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

(4 days ago) WEBThe National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report assesses the performance of our healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities, for access to healthcare and quality of healthcare. Quality is described in terms of six priorities: patient safety, person-centered care, care coordination, effective

https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr21/index.html

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Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the …

(3 days ago) WEBHealth inequalities, as defined in this article and in many others, Government power works in legal, regulatory and public service spaces, whilst the deployment of armed forces, policing and custodial spaces are important for military, physical and legal force. The positions of power here include the civil service, elected officials

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7894306/

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Health Disparities Report 2021 - America's Health Rankings

(2 days ago) WEBAmerica’s Health Rankings Health Disparities Report, produced by the United Health . Foundation, documents the breadth, depth and persistence of health disparities across the nation to provide objective data to inform action for advancing health equity. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated longstanding health disparities in the U.S.

https://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/2021_ahr_health-disparities-comprehensive-report_final.pdf

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The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We …

(9 days ago) WEBMaternal health: The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of industrialized countries, and the 2022 NHQDR shows that this rate is increasing. The overall maternal mortality rate in 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, up from 20.1 deaths in 2019 and 17.4 deaths in 2018.

https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2022-national-healthcare-disparities-report.html

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Understanding and Mitigating Health Inequities — Past, Current, …

(Just Now) WEBOver the past half-century, understanding of health and health care disparities in the United States — including underlying social, clinical, and system-level contributors — has increased.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2008628

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An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: …

(3 days ago) WEBSeveral inequalities scholars interviewed were keen to highlight the historical context of Cluster 1, in the wake of the Black Report (Black, Morris et al., 1980), the first systematic effort by any national government to understand and explain health inequalities between social classes (Smith, 2013).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449896/

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Health Equity in Healthy People 2030

(1 days ago) WEBSimilar to Healthy People 2020, Healthy People 2030 defines health equity as “the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health

https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/health-equity-healthy-people-2030

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Health equity - World Health Organization (WHO)

(7 days ago) WEBHealth equity. Equity is the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other dimensions of inequality (e.g. sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation). Health is a fundamental human right.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/health-equity

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The effects of public health policies on health inequalities in high

(6 days ago) WEBSocio-economic inequalities are associated with unequal exposure to social, economic and environmental risk factors, which in turn contribute to health inequalities. Understanding the impact of specific public health policy interventions will help to establish causality in terms of the effects on health inequalities. Systematic review methodology was used to …

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-5677-1

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Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and …

(9 days ago) WEBA health care disparity typically refers to differences between groups in health insurance coverage, affordability, access to and use of care, and quality of care. The terms “health inequality

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/disparities-in-health-and-health-care-5-key-question-and-answers/

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Health disparities and health inequalities: applying All Our Health

(6 days ago) WEBThe causes of health inequalities or disparities are complex, but are generally associated with variation in a range of factors that positively or negatively influence our ability to be healthy

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-disparities-and-health-inequalities-applying-all-our-health/health-disparities-and-health-inequalities-applying-all-our-health

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Health promotion and the need to accelerate advocacy for health …

(Just Now) WEBThe emergence of neoliberalism and cuts to spending on social programmes ended progress in reducing health inequalities in Europe and the USA in the 1980s, and improvements in population health in England and Brazil came under threat due to austerity measures following economic recessions from 2010 onwards in England and from 2015 …

https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/39/3/daae040/7667539

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Tackling health inequalities through the development of the wider

(3 days ago) WEBJamaica N, Jessica A, Michael M. Skills and health inequalities in London. London: Institute of Health Equity; 2023. Google Scholar. 5. Lawrence W, Black C, Tinati T, et al. ‘Making every contact count’: evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17579139241249788

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Economic relationships and health inequalities: improving public …

(7 days ago) WEBAlthough health inequalities are increasingly understood as being caused by inequalities in income, power and wealth, 6, 7, 8 the policy recommendations and (especially) government responses to these inequalities often fail to understand and address the social and economic relationships that underlie inequalities in income, power and …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350621003449

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What Are Health Inequalities? The King's Fund

(9 days ago) WEBHealth inequalities can therefore involve differences in: health status, for example, life expectancy. access to care, for example, availability of given services. quality and experience of care, for example, levels of patient satisfaction. behavioural risks to health, for example, smoking rates. wider determinants of health, for example

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/what-are-health-inequalities

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Equity and endurance: how can we tackle health inequalities this …

(8 days ago) WEBIt took time for the Labour government to take concerted action on health inequalities. However, the government’s strategy emerged more strongly in the early 2000s, building on health action zones (area-based initiatives focused on community approaches to tackling health inequalities), and set out in a cross-government strategy. This had a

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/how-can-we-tackle-health-inequalities

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Health inequalities statistics released - gov.scot

(8 days ago) WEBHealth inequalities statistics released. Published. 01 March 2022 09:45. Part of. Health and social care. An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland. Scotland’s Chief Statistician today announced the publication of the latest Long-term Monitoring of Health Inequalities report. The report includes a range of indicators selected in order

https://www.gov.scot/news/health-inequalities-statistics-released-7/

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Socio-economic inequalities drive antimicrobial resistance risks.

(6 days ago) WEBAntimicrobial resistance (also known as AMR) is estimated to be directly responsible for 1.27 million deaths in 2019 alone, equivalent to approximately 3,500 people each day. This number is estimated to reach 10 million per annum by 2050 without substantial action. The economic consequences of antimicrobial resistance for individuals, health

https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int/news-room/news/item/15-05-2024-socio-economic-inequalities-drive-antimicrobial-resistance-risks.-here-s-how-to-curb-it

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Addressing health inequalities across allied health professional …

(1 days ago) WEBpart 1: a 4-step approach to addressing health inequalities: this section supports AHP leaders to take a gradual approach to explore health inequalities in their local area and co-produce

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/addressing-health-inequalities-across-allied-health-professional-ahp-services-a-guide-for-ahp-system-leaders

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Strategies and governance to reduce health inequalities: evidences …

(3 days ago) WEBGovernment policy audited through health impact assessment and equity impact assessment. Instruments that institutionalize collaboration across sectors and levels of government. “Health inequalities can be tackled with appropriate health and social policies cutting across sectors, involving all community groups and governments, from …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5683456/

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A new South Africa health law aims at deep inequality, but critics …

(3 days ago) WEBAccording to Ramaphosa, the aim of the National Health Insurance is to provide access to quality health care for all and integrate the health system. “In its essence, the National Health Insurance is a commitment to eradicate the stark inequalities that have long determined who in our country receives adequate healthcare and who suffers from

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-health-law-elections-e1e15892eaa6efa51cc1bf14959d3453

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Updating NIH Minority Health and Health Disparities Categories to

(Just Now) WEBWe are committed to ensuring accountability and transparency of NIH research spending. To this end, we are sharing how we review and adapt our methodologies to provide accurate reports of NIH expenditures for NIH Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) categories.This year, the categories of Minority Health, Health …

https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/05/14/updating-nih-minority-health-and-health-disparities-categories-to-improve-accuracy-and-transparency/

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Public health expert lambasts UK government as fund to tackle

(7 days ago) WEBOne of the UK’s leading public health experts has attacked the Conservative government’s record on health inequality, expressing hope that the next government will “take the right steps

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/14/michael-marmot-legal-general-public-health-fund-inequality

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American Youth Address Mental Health through National Service

(1 days ago) WEBThe US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has called for a swift and comprehensive response to the youth mental health crisis. One in three high school students, and half of female students, have reported persistent feelings of hopelessness, with 122 million Americans living in communities that lack adequate mental health services.The nation’s current …

https://americorps.gov/blogs/2024-05-16/american-youth-address-mental-health-through-national-service

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Public health expert lambasts UK government as fund to tackle

(1 days ago) WEBProfessor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity) calls for government cuts to be reversed as a fund backed by Legal & General and his research institute opens to support local initiatives. Public health expert lambasts UK government as fund to tackle inequality launches . 14 May 2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/headlines/2024/may/public-health-expert-lambasts-uk-government-fund-tackle-inequality-launches

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Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

(3 days ago) WEBMotivation for studying health inequalities. Despite considerable attention to the problem of health inequalities since the 1980s (), striking differences in health still exist among and within countries today ().In 2010, for example, Haitian men had a healthy life expectancy of 27.8 years, while men in Japan could expect 70.6 years, over twice as long, in full …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481045/

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Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada,

(6 days ago) WEBCall for papers: Generating stronger evidence to inform policy and practice: natural experiments on built environments, health behaviours and chronic diseases. Other PHAC publications. Next. Date modified: 2024-05-15. The articles of this issue focus on gender identity, health inequalities, opioids, overdose, housing, and health communication.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publications/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice/vol-44-no-5-2024.html

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Government of Canada supports development & point-of-care …

(6 days ago) WEBThe federal government will continue to build on this collaborative work with provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous people, industry stakeholders, and with partners across One Health sectors. Continued collaboration will facilitate the implementation of the Action Plan's 10 shared priorities and will help preserve the effectiveness

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2024/05/government-of-canada-supports-development--point-of-care-dissemination-of-national-antimicrobial-prescribing-guidelines.html

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US government suspends funding for virus research group at …

(3 days ago) WEBThe US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday suspended funding to EcoHealth Alliance, a virus research organization tied to controversy about the origins of the virus that causes

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/health/us-government-suspends-fundingforvirus-research-group-at-center-of-covid-19-origin-controversy/index.html

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Pro-cannabis advocates in Thailand rally ahead of the …

(Just Now) WEBMembers of a pro-cannabis group gather at Public Health Ministry to oppose Thai government’s plan to relist cannabis as narcotics in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, Thursday, May 16, 2024.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/16/thailand-cannabis-rally-law-health-narcotics/4af43332-136b-11ef-9d37-865890cc2670_story.html

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