منابع مشابه
Public health. Social context and action
Health is determined by the conditions in which we live our everyday lives. Those conditions include the social, cultural, economic, educational, and occupational as well as the physical and mental environment, which influence health behaviour and lifestyle and so the health status. Disparities in those determinants between social groups lead to inequalities in health. Those issues are contents...
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Recently a number of calls have been made to mobilise the arsenal of political science insights to investigate – and point to improvements in – the social determinants of health (SDH), and health equity. Recently, in this journal, such a rallying appeal was made for the field of public administration. This commentary argues that, although scholarly potential should justifiably be redirected to ...
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The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with numbers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Integrated Care
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1568-4156
DOI: 10.5334/ijic.863