Sentences with phrase «health inequalities»

Without effectively addressing these underlying causes of health inequality, disease or condition - focused programs are not likely to result in sustainable changes.

These lectures «will explore the challenges faced by nations and communities in reducing health inequality».

Human rights provide a framework for addressing health inequality by providing a system to guide policy making and to influence the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of health programs and services.

Lots of focus on health inequality, not enough on wealth inequality.

Chapter 5 concludes with a review of progress made in addressing Indigenous health inequality since 2005, and identifies future measures required to consolidate and advance the current gains.

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.

The way to reduce health inequality isn't only increasing access to care or providing health insurance, they say.

This has led many to interpret obesity as a symptom of health inequality.

This commits the Government to work in partnership with Indigenous people, and their representative organisations, to «close the gap» on health inequality and life expectancy by 2030.

«Tackling health inequality means tackling wealth inequality but politicians lack the courage to do this»

The Close the Gap campaign calls on the Federal Government to prioritise Indigenous health in its May 2017 budget.The Campaign's 2017 Budget Position paper lists nine priorities that will help close the gap in health inequality for Aboriginal and...

The first is that the extent of health inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples raises issues of compliance with Australia's human rights obligations.

However, significant work has been completed over the past three years to reinvigorate the commitments of governments to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality through the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and related initiatives such as the Primary Health Care Access Program.

Governments have, after all, already made commitments to addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality as a major priority.

However, in most cases, family adversity remained significantly associated with health inequalities even after taking account of differences in parenting.

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

He warned that» If some operators would use branding in a way that confuses mothers, particularly the least educated ones, then this could result in a step backwards that would increase health inequalities in Europe and would affect member states and WHO efforts to combat childhood obesity and other child health problems.»

The increase in absolute terms of the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth population will require significant increases in services and programs simply to keep pace with demand and maintain the status quo, yet alone to achieve a reduction in existing health inequality.

The Welsh Labour Government has «no answers» over widening health inequalities in Wales, according to Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Kirsty Williams AM.

However, only recently have these differences in rates of children's services interventions begun to be thought of as an issue of childhood inequality, forty years on from the emergence of health inequalities into public discourse.

The Report examined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality within the framework of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health.

Topics have ranged from developing the European Respiratory Roadmap to discussions about health inequalities and research priorities.

This selection of articles on the social determinants of health was released to mark the 57th Boyer Lecture series by Marmot, the President of the World Medical Association, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and a leading researcher on health inequality issues for more than four decades.

More than 150,000 Australians will declare their support today for ending health inequality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other Australians, with a record number of schools, community groups, health services, businesses and government offices hosting over 1,548 events around the country to mark National Close the Gap Day on 19 March 2015.

And it is essential to tackling the gross health inequalities we still face in Britain.

By connecting social justice with economic development and sustainability goals, such a Green New Deal would go a long way toward dismantling the fundamental causes of environmental health inequalities.

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.

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.

A failure to link concerns about rural health inequalities into wider national and global debates about inequality is a missed opportunity, both for raising awareness about the issues at play, as well as for identifying potential solutions.

(While I'm at it, I'll through out a plug for the excellent Whitehall studies that are THE go - to for discussing health inequalities and inequities.)

Breastfeeding rates in the UK are lowest in its most - deprived communities, exacerbating health inequalities.

He suggested widening health inequalities raised serious concerns for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which plans on increasing the state pension age to 66.

Hollywood actors who win Oscars live on average three years longer than those who are nominated for an Oscar, but never win one, according to Sir Michael Marmot at the Fabian Health Inequalities conference this week.

Sharon Hodgson, Labour MP for Tyne and Wear, tells politics.co.uk that free, hot meals for all school children would help cut obesity and reverse health inequalities.

«This means following through on the current national health inequalities target on infant mortality and life expectancy which runs to the end of 2011 acknowledges the challenge posed by a social gradient - the lower a person's social position, the worse his or her health.»

Despite these successes the DoH has asked Professor Sir Michael Marmot to advise on the future direction of health inequalities policy.

Its head of science and ethics, Vivienne Nathanson, said: «There is no bottomless pit of resources to tackle health inequalities so it is essential that the government spends taxpayers» money wisely and on projects that will work.