Health Connections

Critical Connections: Health and Academics

BACKGROUND While it is a national priority to support the health and education of students, these sectors must better align, integrate, and collaborate to achieve this priority. This article summarizes the literature on the connection between health and academic achievement using the Whole School, Whole Community, and Whole Child (WSCC) framework as a way to address health-related barriers to l...

Global Health Nursing: Making Connections by Embracing the Other.

Chapter 9: Aboriginality, Poverty and Health—Exploring the Connections

In the broader context, poverty and poor health are incontrovertibly linked. The research evidence of inequality of health between the poor and the non-poor is overwhelming. Moreover, this pattern equally applies in affluent countries such as Australia, where a clear and widening health gap exists between low and higher income groups (Mathers 1994; Walker 2000). Within these data, the disparity...

Globalization, poverty and women's health: mapping the connections.

Poverty and other forms of inequity undermine individual and population health and retard development. Although absolute poverty has reportedly declined in recent years, research suggests that relative poverty or the gap between the rich and poor within and between countries has been exacerbated over this same period. There is growing concern about the feminization of poverty, and the impact gl...

Social Geography, Minority Women and Public Health: Making Connections

The purpose of this research is to address the health disparities that are prominent among minority populations, particularly African American and Hispanic/Latino American women. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for Americans along with diabetes. This research addresses the underlying causes for poor health among minority women in inner-cities. Social factors such as residen...