Sentences with phrase «reducing health inequality»

He said: «The key to reducing this health inequality is empowerment; to create the conditions for people to have control over their lives.»

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

The Global Strategy has not yet been fully implemented in the countries of the UK and the APPG will continue to explore the policy options, while hearing from experts on how these will contribute to improving infant and young child feeding practices, improving short and long - term health outcomes and reducing health inequalities.

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 abroad.

New GPs will be parachuted into deprived areas in a bid to reduce health inequalities, the government announced today.

But it is not always clear how much has actually been spent on reducing health inequalities, and what the impact of this or that programme has been,» Audit Commission's health managing director Andy McKeon said.

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

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

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

All of these programmes aim to connect families and communities across the area and provide a coherent, holistic and sustained approach to tackling the attainment gap and reducing health inequalities.

The vital importance of investing in early childhood development in order to reduce health inequalities has been underscored by the second Boyer Lecture, recently delivered by World Medical Association president, Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

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.

There is a strong culture in general practice of working to reduce health inequalities.

Research evidence in this area will inform policy directed at reducing health inequalities by interventions that promote support for parents and effective parenting.

However, the findings suggest that the role of parenting in reducing health inequalities may be greater for some health outcomes and behaviours than others.

In the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England by Marmot and others, 46 Marmot discusses the concept of proportional universalism, whereby focusing solely on the most disadvantaged will not reduce health inequalities and that actions must be universal, but with a scale and intensity that is proportionate to the level of disadvantage.

[45] The Steering Committee welcome the fact that the discussion paper released by the review team as the basis of its consultation process Improving Maternity Services in Australia was developed with reference to the Framework for Implementation of Primary Maternity Services in Australia, which in turn endorsed a guiding set of principles in relation to reform of the delivery of maternity services including: «working to reduce the health inequalities faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies».

Not exact matches

Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health is an important public health goal.1 A key first step toward achieving that goal is to evaluate and compare the impact of various interventions across socioeconomic strata.

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.

Mothers of babies with Down's syndrome need tailored guidance to help them breastfeed and reduce the risk of health inequalities they may otherwise face.

This blog shows how the data can be used as a tool to inform decision - making, especially for commissioning services, to reduce inequalities in child health.

However, they could be required to direct resources to areas most likely to reduce income inequalities such as health campaigns and school spending.

The Council Conclusions stress that harmful use of alcohol is recognised as an important risk factor in the need to reduce the burden of alcohol - related avoidable deaths, chronic diseases, injuries, violence, health inequalities and other social consequences to third parties.

«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.»

JON SOPEL: The Oral Health unit, the independent national forum, says that screening does not lead to any improvement, does nothing to reduce inequalities between rich and poor.

Anyone looking to back a left - winger will be disappointed and may well have to settle for the one outsider, Patrick Vernon, a councillor in the London Borough of Hackney and Chief Executive of the Afiya Trust that works to reduce inequalities in health and social care provision for BME communities.

«It is important to understand such patterns, because if inequality in the offline world translates into differential resources online, especially those that affect health over time, then new technologies like social network sites could exacerbate rather than reduce health disparities.»

«The significance of the economic and inequality variables in the model suggests that systematic national policies aimed at reducing social, gender, and economic equality could positively affect health workforce production,» said Dr. Squires.

«It can contribute to alleviating poverty, creating jobs, reducing inequalities, increasing income and enhancing health and well - being.

The last two governments have recognised the need to reduce inequalities in health.

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.

Education is a powerful instrument for reducing poverty and inequality, improving health and social well - being, and laying the basis for sustained economic growth... [We will] ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

The new taskforce will launch later this year — with a mission to reduce childhood obesity in the capital and close the health inequality gap that exists across the city

Reducing this inequality gap is a key public health priority for the Mayor, and will be a major focus of the new taskforce.

Albert Shanker, the head of the AFT from 1974 to 1997, believed that teachers» unions should be affiliated with the AFL - CIO in part because teachers could do a much better job of educating students if educators were part of a coalition that fought to reduce income inequality, and provide for better housing and health care for children.

These can enable the transport systems of developing countries to play their part in the attainment of national goals: to develop economies, to create jobs, to reduce poverty and inequality, to produce more food, to improve health and education, and in general to ensure that citizens can live healthy and satisfying lives.

PECKHAM: Their main conclusions were that there was no evidence to suggest that it reduced inequalities in dental health, that there was no evidence to support that it had a positive effect on adult teeth, and that there was no evidence to suggest that if you stopped water fluoridation, levels of decay would increase.

The bulk of evidence shows that decent work is the foundation of a strong economy, better health outcomes, and reduced inequality.

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

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.

Such systems will be invaluable tools for assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of policies and interventions that aim to reduce inequalities in health and development across populations.3

The bulk of evidence shows that decent work is the foundation of a strong economy, better health outcomes, and reduced inequality.

Indigenous health inequalities will not be reduced by pretending that racism isn't really affecting us, psychologically, materially, and physiologically.

It will discuss the multiple ways in which racism influences health and health inequalities, with particular implications for Indigenous cancer research, policy and practice, and look to evidence regarding promising interventions to reduce racism and its harmful health effects.

Multiple studies undertaken over many years attest to the effect of parenting on the development of children and young people, 1,2 and on their mental3 — 5 and physical health in adult life.6, 7 Good quality, timely support for parents has now been identified in national and international policy documents as important for reducing social inequalities in health, 8 preventing mental illness, 9 — 11 and enhancing social and educational development.12

Although the results from the present study may not be conclusive on whether children who participate in ECE have better learning outcomes due to lack of robust longitudinal support, it is undeniable that stimulation of child characteristics that are targeted to reduce educational inequalities at school entry between advantaged and disadvantaged children represents a critical foundation in reducing the economic, health, and social burdens associated with poverty.

A cost effectiveness analysis of the Incredible Years parenting programme in reducing childhood health inequalities

In their signing of the Statement of Intent to reduce Indigenous Health Inequality, in 2008, both Government and Opposition committed to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples by the yearHealth Inequality, in 2008, both Government and Opposition committed to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples by the yearhealth status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples by the year 2030.

Experts have shown in study after study that high - quality early care and education produce external benefits that are abundant and long - lasting.29 Quality child care may be costly, but many of its associated benefits spill over into society over time, reducing inequality in educational, health, and social outcomes.

If parenting is an important explanation for inequalities in health according to level of family adversity, we would expect the strength of the association between family adversity and health (observed in stage 1) to be reduced after controlling for parenting in this way.