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- Education increases the chances of living a long and healthy life and has the potential to reduce health inequalities. However, educational success is itself significantly influenced by social background, so unless the social determinants are addressed, education can end up reinforcing health inequalities.
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This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and we review a wide range ...
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- Evidence Map
- Delivery Arrangements Intervention
- Financial Arrangements Intervention
- Governance Arrangements Intervention
- Implementation Strategies
From the characterization of the included studies, an evidence map was developed, which graphically distributes these studies according to a matrix with 38 interventions and 39 findings that can be observed in Fig. 2 and at the following link: https://public.tableau.com/profile/bireme#!/vizhome/desigualdades-en-salud-en/evidence-map. In this eviden...
Of the total of LRs that included the delivery arrangements domain, eight displayed a high quality [18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25]. The two most frequent categories in this domain were “coordination of care and management of care processes”, and “who provides care and how the health care workforce is managed”. In addition, the most common subcategories w...
The six LRs that included the financial arrangements domain were of an average quality [26, 43, 50, 53,54,55]. The category of “mechanisms for the payment of health services” was the most common within this domain (Table 2), which focused on providing financial support to disadvantaged groups to guarantee health care – for example, transportation a...
Governance arrangements domain was identified in seven of the included studies, one of high quality and three of medium quality [53, 56, 57]. Interventions aimed at public policy in health or organizations were identified, where the construction of social networks and organizational interventions carried out in work environments improve health con...
Sixty two LRs were included in the implementation strategies domain, of which six were of high quality [18, 22,23,24, 58, 59]. The category of interventions targeting specific practices and conditions was the most frequent (Table 2). Among these, effective strategies were identified in oral health care in the immigrant population and the reduction...
- Nathaly Garzón-Orjuela, Daniel Felipe Samacá-Samacá, Silvia Catalina Luque Angulo, Carmen Verônica M...
- 2020
The framework identifies key areas of action for the reduction of health and care inequalities in general practice across the structural, cultural, disciplinary, and interpersonal domains and suggests five principles that should inform relevant action.
Mar 8, 2023 · When studies were sufficiently homogenous to allow data pooling, meta-analyses revealed that health education interventions targeting socially disadvantaged populations produced positive behavioural effects that were small or negligible in magnitude. The certainty of evidence was low (at best).
Sep 10, 2020 · Our review shows that complex community-based interventions can contribute to reducing socio-economic inequalities in health behavior and health status outcomes, or at least do not increase inequalities, respectively.
- Stefan Nickel, Olaf von dem Knesebeck
- 10.1186/s12939-020-01271-8
- 2020
- Int J Equity Health. 2020; 19: 157.
May 19, 2015 · Moreover, education is a fundamental social determinant of health – an upstream cause of health. Programs that close gaps in educational outcomes between low-income or racial and ethnic minority populations and higher-income or majority populations are needed to promote health equity.
Findings from this research agenda can inform policies and effective interventions to reduce health disparities and improve health for all Americans.
