BACKGROUND England has a long history of government-commissioned reviews of national inequalities. The latest review, the Marmot Review, was commissioned by a government headed by the same party (the Labour Party) that had introduced the National Health Service in 1948, but the review was implemented by a coalition of different parties (Conservatives and Liberal Democrats). At the same time, a ...

Purpose. To design a Methodical Approach to assessing the level of economic security Ukraine under destructive influence exogenous determinants and verification results its application. Methodology. The methods analysis synthesis are used substantiate functional components aspects ensuring state develop system indicators for their assessment. index method is in developing an integral indicator ...

the aim of this study is to review the rentier state theory, with special regard to iran. iran’s rentier state is highly dependent on oil revenues, but much less on tax revenues. even this negligible reliance on tax revenues, itself seems to be indebted to oil revenues. thus the main research hypothesis is that iran’s oil revenue is one of the main determinants of tax revenues. to empirically t...

Mammals maintain homeostatic control of their body temperature. Therefore, these organisms are expected to have adaptations that confer the ability to detect and react to both self and ambient temperature. Temperature-activated ion channels have been discovered to be the primary molecular determinants of thermosensation. The most representative group of these determinants constitutes members of...

The commitment to social justice is an essential feature of professional nursing practice (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008). Social justice involves critically evaluating major determinants of health, including an individual’s personal attributes, acquired health behaviors, health care accessibility, as well as social, economic, and cultural resources and environments (Reutter...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves clinical symptoms and prognosis of heart failure patients. However, it has been shown that up to 40% of patients do not respond to this therapy. Three main determinants of cardiac resynchronization therapy response have been identified: left ventricular dyssynchrony, left ventricular lead position, and extent and location of myocardial scar tissue. Two...

This study examined the reliability of a newly developed child and parental questionnaire on specific determinants of cycling to school among 10-12 year olds. Validity of child reported distance, bicycle equipment and basic bicycle skills was also investigated. In total 211 children and 33 parents participated in this study. The reliability of the questionnaires was acceptable with results indi...

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Commission on Social Determinants of Health formally adopted Health Impact Assessment (HIA) more than a decade ago as a promising concept to address underlying health issues. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) remains one of the regions of the world with minimal application of HIA in public programs and policies. This special report documents the need ...

OBJECTIVES Work status is an important outcome in SpA. The objective was to assess work instability and its determinants in a cohort of patients with SpA, using the AS-work instability scale (AS-WIS). METHODS We performed a cross-sectional monocentre study. Patients were definite SpA patients with paid work. Work instability was measured by the AS-WIS. Its determinants were assessed by correl...

BACKGROUND Social determinants, similar to equity, have been considered by policymakers in many countries. However, there is not a correct and complete understanding of them. This study aimed to analyze the systematic relationships among social determinants of health (SDH) and identify their prioritization in Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 201...