Gender disparities in mortality: challenges for health equity in Puerto Rico

Milk consumption, calcium intake, and decreased hypertension in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Heart Health Program study.

The baseline observations in the Puerto Rico Heart Health Program during 1965-1968 involved blood pressure determinations, other measurements, and a 24-hour dietary recall in 7932 men aged 45-64 years. This extensive data base provided an opportunity to test the hypothesis that low calcium intake is related to increased blood pressure level. Among men without baseline coronary heart disease and...

Women's employment and changing gender relations in Puerto Rico.

This article discusses Helen Safa's analyses of the impact of development strategies and social policies on gender relations and women headed families in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. The discussion focuses on findings of a research project regarding patterns of women's employment, autonomy, marital relations, family headship and poverty in Puerto Rico in the decade beginning in the year 2000,...

Slavery in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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Challenges and Requirements for Achieving Equity in Health in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Challenges and Requirements for Achieving Equity in Health in the Islamic Republic of Iran Behzad Damari 1, Farima Minaee 2, Sahand Riazi-Isfahani 3 * 1 Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2 Community Medicine Specialist 3 Department of Social Determinants of Health, National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,...