Sentences with phrase «where health inequality»

Where health inequality and inequality of opportunity exists, governments must identify appropriate health indicators with achievable benchmarks, so that the rate of progress can be monitored and assessed.

«Environmental injustice is a major concern, particularly in indigenous communities where health inequalities are already an issue,» said Verner.

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Collected for the most part by industrialized countries, where the principal financial markets are located, this money could be used to help struggle against inequalities, to promote education and public health in poor countries, and for food security and sustainable development.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and aHealth Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and ahealth inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

In Pelotas, he coordinates the International Center for Equity in Health, where he carries out cohort studies as well as global reviews of levels and trends of inequalities in maternal and child hHealth, where he carries out cohort studies as well as global reviews of levels and trends of inequalities in maternal and child healthhealth.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

Health inequalities are especially remarkable in Southern Europe countries, where women present a 27 % higher risk of having poor health compared tHealth inequalities are especially remarkable in Southern Europe countries, where women present a 27 % higher risk of having poor health compared thealth compared to men.

But knowing more about what causes low birth weight can help alleviate the intergenerational perpetuation of social inequality through poor infant health,» said Kane, formerly a postdoctoral scholar at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where the research was conducted.

Of interest is that the inequality between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children is greater for females than for males particularly on the Physical health and well - being domain, where the OR for male Aboriginal children is 1.81 (95 % CI 1.68 to 1.95) compared with 2.38 for female Aboriginal children (95 % CI 2.19 to 2.58).

There have been a number of developments in Indigenous policy over recent years where governments have made commitments to addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality a major priority.