Sentences with phrase «health inequities across»

The NCCAH has increased evidence - informed resources on Aboriginal public health and health inequities across Canada.

Not exact matches

Further, Dr Patel notes, there are, «widespread inequities in health outcomes that are apparent in the large morbidity and mortality differentials across socioeconomic status, caste, class, sex, and geographic location.»

Michelle is also on the faculty of BUILD's Equity Leader's Action Network working with leaders from across the country acting on specific racial inequities in state early childhood systems — in early learning, health, mental health, nutrition, and family support — and especially at the intersection of these systems.

In the lead up to this hard fought for progress, Planned Parenthood worked with women's health and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer supporters in Congress and across the country to support the Peace Corps Equity Act, a bill that would correct this inequity and ensure fair treatment for Peace Corps Volunteers.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

Addressing inequity in outcomes for children across health and education is an issue of timely and significant policy interest at a state and federal level.68, 69 If right@home is effective and demonstrates benefit, the study design enables replicability at scale, with significant implications for the development of early childhood policy and strategy throughout Australia and internationally.

Tackling health inequities (or in other words: achieving a fair distribution of health in Australia), is also about addressing the gradient of health across society.

This is a really tough gig, as the Minister will be charged with working across all portfolios to assess the impact of all policies upon the population's health, and particularly upon health inequities.