Sentences with phrase «health inequities as»

1 We define health inequities as differences in health which are unnecessary and avoidable but, in addition, are also considered unfair and unjust.

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While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

The consequences of mass incarceration are enormous, as are the ongoing realities of neighborhood and school segregation, education inequity, and employment and health care disparities.

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

As a group, offenders and ex-offenders experience entrenched socio - economic inequities and are vulnerable to mental ill health.

As new technologies transform health care delivery and health inequity is better understood, we recognize that we must constantly reimagine how new physicians are educated.

Jessica Yeh, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the General Internal Medicine Divisionand core faculty member at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, has been selected to join the American Diabetes Association's National Health Disparities Committee, which serves as an advisory and steering committee for the association's work on reducing inequities facing populations disparately affected by diabetes.

Poor math skills exacerbate inequities, shut people out of jobs and make it hard for voters to understand complex issues such as the cost of health care and the size of the national debt.

We'll focus on health and early learning systems «asks» and «offers» to each other as they both work toward building early childhood systems that address child well - being and health inequities.

There are many similarities between cultural safety and cultural responsiveness, such as: providing guidelines to health practitioners to improve their capabilities; putting the onus on change onto non-Indigenous systems and employees; debunking the myth that culture is the «problem», as opposed to racism and systemic inequity; and progressing the conversations beyond cultural awareness or sensitivity, to create real change.

Substantial evidence exists to support the use of home visiting as a strategy for addressing inequities in children's health status, school readiness, and development.

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.

It does nothing to address some of the most serious health inequities in our community, such as the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and between those of us in cities and those who live in the bush.

Leading Indigenous health researchers have called on the Federal Government to accept the Uluru Statement from the Heart «in its entirety» as a crucial step in efforts to address health inequities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

In particular, his support of Primary Healthcare Organisations as a vehicle to reduce health inequity in this country & his idea of citizens» juries as a means of harnessing broad community involvement in their development has been very important.

Key areas such as Indigenous health, dental care and preventive health were virtually ignored, despite their critical importance to addressing growing health inequities in the community.

Second, we sought to determine whether the frequency of S allele carriers predicts cultural individualism and collectivism by conducting a multiple regression analysis with individualism — collectivism as the criterion variable and frequency of S allele carriers, as well as four other economic and health factors previously associated with individualism — collectivism including GDP per capita, inequity in the distribution of wealth (Gini index) as well as historical and contemporary pathogen prevalence as predictor variables (Fincher et al. 2008).

They covered diverse topics including refugees, mental health, social movements and activism, chronic illnesses and infectious diseases, inequities in data and health care provision, gender inequalities and family violence, screening and diagnostic tests, Indigenous health, the NDIS, health reform, and voluntary assisted dying, as well as philosophical questions.

Reid talked about how unconscious bias creates barriers to change and positions culture as a cause of health problems, rather than recognising it as a positive factor in addressing inequity.

Dr. Loppie has undertaken research and published in areas such as: Aboriginal health inequities, Aboriginal HIV / AIDS, social determinants of Aboriginal health, racism and cultural safety, cancer among Aboriginal peoples, Aboriginal ethics and research capacity building as well as the sexual and reproductive health of Aboriginal women.