Sentences with phrase «addressing health inequality»

Chapter 2 of the report examines existing commitments and processes for addressing the health inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and sets out a human rights framework for achieving such equality within a generation.

commit to celebrate and support the success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in addressing health inequality;

The comparably better health status of Indigenous peoples from New Zealand and Canada could in part be a reflection of how, over time, the legislative and health service standards that incorporate the culture and health needs of their Indigenous populations have been one way of effectively addressing health inequality.

We will not know if services are effective or if we are addressing health inequalities.

Although there are national strategies to promote breastfeeding and address health inequalities, it is not clear whether these meet the needs of babies with Down's syndrome and their mothers, Sooben says.

«It is an effective and relatively easy way to help address health inequalities - giving children from poorer backgrounds a dental health boost that can last a lifetime, reducing tooth decay and thereby cutting down on the amount of dental work they need in the future.»

Given that many social and health policies are implemented at the state level, looking at how specific states have fared can provide important clues for addressing these health inequalities.

Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death: How Researchers in Differential Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Are Collaborating to Understand and Address Health Inequalities.

Do health technologies provide an opportunity for addressing health inequalities?

We have an unprecedented opportunity to address health inequality due to the solid work in the health sector over the past decade and the new coordinated service delivery processes.

The long term vision of the centre is to improve the community's health and well being through a focus on improved primary health care services and development of policies and strategies that address health inequalities.

This framework therefore offers a relatively new perspective on the factors necessary to address health inequalities and ensure to all people the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health.

The campaign calls on governments to put in place firm targets, funding and timeframes to address health inequalities, including providing equal access to primary health care for Indigenous Australians within 10 years.

The Social Justice Report 2005 proposes a human rights based campaign to address the health inequality of Indigenous Australians.

Several dimensions of health - related planning are needed in a national effort to achieve health equality: to address both health inequality itself, and its social and cultural determinants.

The Social Justice Report 2005 proposes a human rights based campaign to address the health inequality of Indigenous Australians and asks governments to commit to addressing the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within a set timeframe.

Not exact matches

[The proposed approach] only requires you to address obesity, not address the income inequality that underlies it and a whole host of other health and social problems.»

These included distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to reduce inequalities; lay health workers and training of traditional birth attendants to increase participation in health by consumers; contracting out of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit providers to increase the effectiveness of care; subcontracting the delivery of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors by nurses, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to increase coverage or access; and outpatient referrals to improve the coordination of care.

The report does not address controversial issues surrounding abortion or reproductive health, but rather seeks to curb economic inequality between men and women.

«New Yorkers are looking for new and bold leadership to fix our unequal schools and broken infrastructure; invest in good jobs and health care for all; and address economic and racial inequality.

That report, which is entitled Taking New York Backwards: Pataki Commission's Tax Cuts Exacerbate Inequality and Favor the Wealthy, details the flawed budgeting and severe inequity of the recommendations, which fail to adequately address urgent needs in education funding, health care, infrastructure investments, and progressive tax relief for lower and middle - income families.

Kath Checkland, professor of health policy at Manchester University, said the new processes could help address inequality if different groups within the coalition pooled budgets together but, in practice, little would change as legislation remained the same.

It also recommends improving psychology training programs to make sure clinicians are capable of adequately discussing and addressing the effects of inequality on individual health.

«We need to focus on addressing structural inequalities in society like poverty and discrimination that shape individual experience and health,» she said.

The papers included in this interdisciplinary special issue address how poverty can affect human biology and cover issues including war and forced displacement, minorities and migrants, poverty in both developed and developing countries, health inequalities among girls and women in poverty and the impact of the economic downturn.

An article and an editorial in The BMJ both address the issue of trans fats public health, with the article reporting that bans or labelling or food with trans fats would reduce deaths from coronary heart disease, inequality from mortality and save money.

«To reduce health inequalities among future generations, policymakers will likely need to address inequalities in our education system.

Currently she is co-editing Reporting Inequality: Tools and methods for covering race and ethnicity, with Venise Wagner of San Francisco State University, and working on Skin Deep: The Search for Race in Our Genes, about the quest to address health disparities, for Oxford University Press.

The Social Justice Report 2005 set a range of challenges for government to address Indigenous health inequality through adopting a rights based approach.

Chapter five looks at progress made in addressing Indigenous health inequality since 2005.

It is recognised that the opportunities for prevention and public health interventions will be enhanced the more we understand the early pathways to poorer health and development1 and that to have an impact on health inequalities will require us to address the social determinants of early child health, development and well - being.2 However, appropriate service and systemic improvements for reducing developmental inequalities requires an understanding of the patterns of child health and development across population groups and geographies in order to underpin a progressive universal portfolio of services.3

The authors warn that Australia will not address Indigenous health inequalities without a specific focus on adolescents, who make up one - third of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

In order to achieve this, my study will seek to address key gaps in current knowledge about cultural safety and the scarcity of empirically based research on reducing Aboriginal health inequality.

The Rudd Government has yet to deliver on the substantial reforms promised to tackle the prevention and better management of chronic diseases, to provide the outreach, team work and coordination that is needed to ensure physical and mental health and wellbeing, and to address the inequalities and inequities that are inherent in the current system.

That sounds like a big fat non-acknowlegement of the Redfern Statement in which Indigenous organisations, with the backing of many health groups and NGOs, issued a landmark election challenge calling for transformative action to address structural inequalities, and to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Speakers said the role must be set up for success and judged on whether it leads to reduced health inequalities in rural and remote Australia compared to metropolitan Australia, with the need to address the social determinants of health, including poverty, inequality, racism and prejudice.

The social determinants of health inequality (income, education, racism) also must be addressed at a fundamental level.

His argument that prisons are central to maintaining modern inequality, suggests that efforts to address the social determinants of Indigenous health must have a strong focus on policing and justice systems.

And wrapped around and under everything we do, we must seek to address the causes of ill - health and health inequality — the social determinants of health, and in particular issues relating to income, welfare and poverty.

Research suggests that addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality will involve no more than a 1 per cent per annum increase in total health expenditure in Australia over the next ten years.

The challenge now is how to build on that foundation — how to implement the commitments and agreements we have secured in a comprehensive, integrated and coordinated manner and across all the necessary government portfolios, in a way that addresses not only health but also the many social and cultural determinants of Indigenous health inequality.

Lead development of a National Strategy on the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health that identify key evidence based policies and programs to address factors such as education, income inequality, alcohol and other drugs, employment and public housing

This builds on the issue of health inequalities highlighted in the Scottish Government report Equally Well (Scottish Government 2008, page 3), which stressed the need to address the «inter-generational factors that risk perpetuating Scotland's health inequalities from parent to child, particularly by supporting the best possible start in life for all children in Scotland».

It is clear that most of the resilience measures that are significantly associated with avoiding negative outcomes do not sit entirely within the health domain and that effective action to promote resilience and address child health inequalities requires action at many different levels and from a wide range of agencies and bodies.

This section provides an overview of the commitments and processes that have been entered into by governments and the potential contributions of each of these to addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.

Addressing inequality in health status is not insurmountable, although it will require long term action and commitment.

There is now a joint commitment from all governments in Australia to coordinated service delivery with the objective of addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage, including health inequality.

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.

The second issue to consider in terms of human rights compliance receives less attention - namely, whether the current processes in place to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality comply with the key elements of the human rights based approach to health.

There are three main failings in the approach of Australian governments to date in addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.