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PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Equity in prevention and health care
Study objective: There is an increasing body of evidence about socioeconomic inequality in preventive use, mostly for cancer screening. But as far as needs of prevention are unequally distributed, even equal use may not be fair. Moreover, prevention might be unequally used in the same way as health care in general. The objective of the paper is to assess inequity in prevention and to compare so...
متن کاملPolicy statement--health equity and children's rights.
Many children in the United States fail to reach their full health and developmental potential. Disparities in their health and well-being result from the complex interplay of multiple social and environmental determinants that are not adequately addressed by current standards of pediatric practice or public policy. Integrating the principles and practice of child health equity-children's right...
متن کاملPursuing health equity: zoning codes and public health.
journal of law, medicine & ethics Health equity can be defined as the absence of disadvantage to individuals and communities in health outcomes, access to health care, and quality of health care regardless of one’s race, gender, nationality, age, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status.1 Health equity concerns those disparities in public health that can be traced to unequal, systemic econ...
متن کاملPublic Health Policy and Practice
Study objective: This study examined the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) on sexual risk behaviours of HIV infected injecting drug users (IDUs) included in the French MANIF 2000 cohort study. Design: Longitudinal analysis including baseline and last follow up characteristics using generalised estimating equations (GEE). Setting: Hospital departments for specialist AIDS c...
متن کاملPublic Health Policy and Practice
Study objective: To explore how the increased supply of coronary bypass operations and angioplasties from 1988 to 1996 influenced socioeconomic and gender equity in their use. Design: Register based linkage study; information on coronary procedures from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register in 1988 and 1996 was individually linked to national population censuses in 1970–1995 to obtain patient...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Management
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1225-4266
DOI: 10.4332/kjhpa.2016.26.4.256