Identification of underprivileged areas.

Underprivileged areas and health care planning: implications of use of Jarman indicators of urban deprivation.

OBJECTIVE To analyse critically the use of the Jarman underprivileged area index in health care planning and distribution of resources. DESIGN The original derivation of the score was examined and evidence to support criticisms of the use of underprivileged area scores examined. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Discrepancies between areas classified as deprived according to the index and areas known t...

An analysis of actions to promote health in underprivileged urban areas: a case in Brazil

BACKGROUND Two policies stood out in the 2000s geared towards changing the care model adopted in Brazil: The National Policy on Primary Health Care, based on a family health care model, and the National Policy on Health Promotion.The aim of this study was to analyze health promotion actions developed by family health care teams in the municipality of Belford Roxo. This town was chosen by virtue...

Focus on the Mentally Underprivileged

Mental retardation is recognised as a major mental health problem, especially in terms of its long term social management and rehabilitation. Mental health professionals have ob-.erved that institutionalization of these cases serves no useful purpose. In fact solving the problem by institutionalization has turned out to be a failure, in that it deprives the subjects or social and emotional supp...

Cortical thickness of bone in underprivileged populations.

City hospitals: the undercare of the underprivileged

RENATE SMOLLICH, Der Bisamapfel in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 342, illus., DM 58.00 (paperback). As the author has written, it is the modern developments in medicine which have completely displaced the use of pomanders for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes, but at one time the matter was quite otherwise. From at least the days of the Ebe...