Sentences with phrase «significant health disparities»

As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.

«Despite the presence of a universal health insurance system in Ontario, our research highlights the persistence of significant health disparities in breast cancer screening, particularly for women who are more vulnerable due to severe disability, multiple chronic conditions, low income and lower education,» said Dr. Guilcher, who has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

This has particular importance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience such significant health disparity.

March 17, 2016 Shared decision - making can improve health care outcomes for LGBTQ racial and ethnic minority patients Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) patients who are also racial and ethnic minorities suffer significant health disparities, while facing more complicated challenges than white LGBTQ or racial and ethnic minority patients alone.

Similar experiences of colonisation, marginalisation and dispossession have contributed to significant health disparities in all three countries.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the gap as a significant health disparity.

US epidemiology professor Dr David Chae says the video may hold a vital clue to why there is such a significant health disparity between black and white Americans that could also apply to closing the gap in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.