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Health disparities are differences and/or gaps in the quality of health and healthcare across racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups. It can also be understood as population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to healthcare. Another useful definition has been provided by the Institute of Medicine that ...
- The Influence of Inequality on Health Outcomes
Health and wealth have always been closely related...
- Race, Healthcare, and Health Disparities: A Critical Review ...
Social determinants of health (SDoH) as defined by the US...
- The Root Causes of Health Inequity - Communities in Action ...
Health inequity, categories and examples of which were...
- ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND DISPARITIES IN ACCESS
Access to healthcare means having “the timely use of...
- The Influence of Inequality on Health Outcomes
Health and wealth have always been closely related (Wilkinson, 1994), and economically disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States experience worse health status on multiple indicators of physical health (Williams, in press). The existence of inequality—a property of the population in question—thus has important consequences for the health of individuals and ...
- Burton H Singer, Carol D Ryff
- 2001
- 2001
Social determinants of health (SDoH) as defined by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are the conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play that are determined by the distribution of money, power, and resources and that affect a wide range of health and quality-of-life risks and outcomes. 1 Influenced by the social construct of race, SDoH exert disparate impacts ...
- Primary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 1: Fiscal
- Primary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 2: Regulation
- Primary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 3: Education
- Secondary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 1: Preventative Treatment
- Secondary Prevention Delivery Mechanism 2: Screening
- Primary and Secondary Prevention: Multiple Intervention Studies
Fiscal strategies employed by the state use the tax system to change demand for products deemed healthy/unhealthy by increasing or decreasing price or rewarding/punishing particular behaviours. Eight reviews of the health inequality effects of fiscal policies in the domains of tobacco (n = 1), alcohol (n = 1), food and nutrition (n = 5) and the con...
These interventions were concerned with making and enforcing regulation to encourage/discourage products and services deemed healthy/unhealthy. Fourteen reviews of the effects on health inequalities of regulation in the domains of tobacco (n = 3), food and nutrition (n = 6), environment (n = 3), workplace (n = 1) and the control of infectious disea...
Education, communication and mass media are other policy delivery mechanisms available to governments to encourage/discourage products and services deemed healthy/unhealthy. Twelve reviews were included relating to the tobacco (n = 3), food and nutrition (n = 8) and reproductive health services (n = 1) domains. The results are summarised below and ...
These interventions were concerned with increasing the uptake of preventative health care services. Two reviews of the effects of preventative treatment on health inequalities in the domain of infectious disease control were included in our umbrella review; the results are summarised below and are described in Table 4.
Screening involves offering age-appropriate population-level testing for certain diseases. One review showed the impact of interventions on cancer control and prevention (n = 1); this is summarised below, and are described in Table 5.
Three systematic reviews also included studies that involved multiple types of policy mechanisms simultaneously. These results are summarised below and are described in Table 6. The smoking review by Brown et al. included four studies on the effects of multiple policies, including a combination of fiscal, regulation and education approaches. The e...
- Katie Thomson, Frances Hillier-Brown, Adam Todd, Courtney L. McNamara, Tim Huijts, Clare Bambra
- 2018
Jan 11, 2017 · Health inequity, categories and examples of which were discussed in the previous chapter, arises from social, economic, environmental, and structural disparities that contribute to intergroup differences in health outcomes both within and between societies. The report identifies two main clusters of root causes of health inequity. The first is the intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional ...
- Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James N. Weinstein
- 2017/01/11
- 2017
Feb 22, 2016 · Scholars say that inequality in health is actually three related problems. The first, and most critical, involves disparities in health itself: rates of asthma, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, drug abuse, violence, and other afflictions. The second problem involves disparities in care, including access to hospitals, clinics, doctors’ offices ...
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Access to healthcare means having “the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes.”1 Access to comprehensive, quality healthcare services is important for promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing disease, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans.2 Attaining good access to care means ...
