OBJECTIVES Social determinants of health include social and demographic factors such as poverty, education status, race and ethnicity, gender, insurance status, and other factors that influence (1) development of illness, (2) ability to obtain and utilize healthcare, and (3) health and healthcare outcomes. In otolaryngology, as in other subspecialty surgical fields, we are constantly confronted...

problem statement: the research's problem lies in the fact that deploying m-commerce technology in jordan represent the first serious trail to understand and explore the critical determinants that affect deploying mobile commerce technology. approach: this research applied tam model using the following variables: perceived trust, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social and cultural ...

Atefeh Ghanbari, Pardis Rahmatpour, Fatemeh Jafaraghayee, Malahat Khalili. Associate Professor, PhD of Nursing, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran; Msc of Nursing Education, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran; Assistant Professor, PhD of Nursing, Social Determinants of H...

Social Determinants of Health Research Centre, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Umeå International School of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå , Sweden. Department of Social Work, Umeå University, Umeå , Sweden. Social Determinants of Health Research Centre, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitati...

INTRODUCTION Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 calls for reducing mortality of children under-five years by two-thirds by 2015. Indonesia is on track to officially meet the MDG 4 targets by 2015 but progress has been far from universal. It has been argued that national level statistics, on which MDG 4 relies, obscure persistent health inequities within the country. Particularly inequities in ...

Background: This media content analysis explored the Canadian newspapers reporting on men's health, and their contribution to public understanding of the social determinants of men's health and lifestyles. Methods: A media content analysis of 44 news articles on boys', youth's and men's health,published from 2010 to 2014 by three national newspapers (The Globe and Mail, National Post,and Metro ...

BACKGROUND Health inequities are increasing worldwide, with mounting evidence showing that the greatest cause of which are social determinants of health. To reduce inequities, a lot of citizens need to be able to access, understand, appraise, and apply information on the social determinants; that is, they need to improve health literacy on social determinants of health. However, only a limited ...

BACKGROUND Indicators of the level of education are the most important parameters influencing each country's development. Social indicators considered to be a determinant of one's health consists of two constituents namely; (1) Rate of students enrolled in elementary, guidance, secondary and higher education and (2) the rate of adult literacy. This study is aimed to evaluate the situation of sc...

HIV infection disproportionately affects Blacks in the southern United States (U.S.), a region where legal policies that may unintentionally impede earlier HIV detection and treatment are prevalent. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have historically facilitated social change in communities of color and have been underexplored as partners for HIV prevention. We describe geogr...

health, as a public good, and equity in health, as a moral concept are considered as human right. equity in health is defined as lack of systematic discrepancies in health or social determinants of health among different groups of a community. social justice is considered as a matter of life and death. it is believe that inappropriate distribution of health services is one of the major determin...