نتایج جستجو برای: health equity

تعداد نتایج: 999367  

Background National cancer control plans (NCCPs) are important documents that guide strategic priorities in cancer care and plan for the appropriate allocation of resources based on the social, geographic and economic needs of a population. Despite the emphasis on health equity by the World Health Organization (WHO), few NCCPs have ...

2005
Giorgio Tamburlini

Promoting equity in health is not an easy task. Current trends in the global economy, in the environment and in the scientific and technological development are all conducive to increasing disparities in exposure to risk factors for ill health as well as in access to health services. Indeed, available data point to increasing inequalities in health outcomes among countries and within countries ...

2015
Vivian Welch J. Jull J. Petkovic R. Armstrong Y. Boyer LG Cuervo SJL Edwards A. Lydiatt D. Gough J. Grimshaw E. Kristjansson L. Mbuagbaw J. McGowan D. Moher T. Pantoja M. Petticrew K. Pottie T. Rader B. Shea M. Taljaard E. Waters C. Weijer GA Wells H. White M. Whitehead P. Tugwell

BACKGROUND Health equity concerns the absence of avoidable and unfair differences in health. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can provide evidence about the impact of an intervention on health equity for specific disadvantaged populations or in general populations; this is important for equity-focused decision-making. Previous work has identified a lack of adequate reporting guidelines for a...

Distributional Equity in Public Health Budget: Hormozgan Province and Neighbouring Regions Ali Heyrani1* 1 MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran Abstract Equitable improvement in the health status of different regions is essential for the balanced and sustai...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2014
gemma carey

evidence now shows that the key drivers of poor health are social factors, such as education, employment, housing and urban environments. variations in these social factors—or the conditions in which we live our lives—have lead to a growth in health inequalities within and between countries. one of the key challenges facing those concerned with health equity is how to effect change across the b...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2014
dance gudeva nikovska fimka tozija

background health is a complex phenomenon and equity as a basic human right an integral part of constitutions in almost all countries in the world. in republic of macedonia (rm), tuberculosis (tb) is clustered regionally and in certain ethnic groups. the main objective of this study was to analyze social determinants of health (sdh) and equity in access to healthcare services for tb patients in...

Journal: :Shiraz E-Medical Journal 2017

Journal: :Journal of health politics, policy and law 2017
Colleen M Grogan

This commentary reviews the many different ways the Affordable Care Act (ACA) explicitly and implicitly attempted to improve health equity, and then assesses how the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the ACA (the proposed American Health Care Act) would impact efforts to improve health equity. Although the American health care system still had a long way to go to achieve health equity, ...

Journal: :Journal of health politics, policy and law 2017
Alan B Cohen Colleen M Grogan Jedediah N Horwitt

This special issue of the Journal is devoted to understanding the many roads that lead toward achieving health equity. The eleven articles in the issue portray an America that is struggling with the clash between its historical ideal of pursuing equality for all and its ambivalence toward achieving equity in all social domains, especially health. Organized in five sections, the issue contains a...

Journal: :Health and human rights 2010
Paula Braveman

The fields of health equity and human rights have different languages, perspectives, and tools for action, yet they share several foundational concepts. This paper explores connections between human rights and health equity, focusing particularly on the implications of current knowledge of how social conditions may influence health and health inequalities, the metric by which health equity is a...

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