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Cross-country evidence on the social determinants of the post-socialist mortality crisis in Europe
An unprecedented mortality crisis befell the former socialist countries between 1989 and 1995, representing one of the greatest demographic shocks of the period after the Second World War. While it is likely that country-level...
Neighbourhood environment and dementia in older people from high-, middle- and low-income countries
Yu-Tzu Wu, Carol Brayne, Zhaorui Liu, Yueqin Huang, Ana Luisa Sosa, Daisy Acosta, Matthew Prina
Sep 02, 2020
Abstract: Background: A growing number of studies have explored how features of the neighbourhood environment can be related to cognitive health in later life. Yet few have focused on low- and middle-income countries and...
Neighbourhood environment and dementia in older people from high-, middle- and low-income countries
Yu-Tzu Wu, Carol Brayne, Zhaorui Liu, Yueqin Huang, Ana Luisa Sosa, Daisy Acosta, Matthew Prina
Sep 01, 2021
Abstract: Background: A growing number of studies have explored how features of the neighbourhood environment can be related to cognitive health in later life. Yet few have focused on low- and middle-income countries and...
Is digital health care more equitable?
Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK...
e-Health Health Policy healthism Internet Social Determinants of Health Youth /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306 name=Health(social science) /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2719 name=Health Policy /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2739 name=Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Interventions in South Africa, a Rapidly Urbanising Middle-Income Country.
Informal settlements are becoming more entrenched within African cities as the urban population continues to grow. Characterised by poor housing conditions and inadequate services, informal settlements are associated with an...
Social Determinants of Health Are Associated with Markers of Renal Injury in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes.
Laura AM Cummings, Antoine Clarke, Etienne Sochett, Denis Daneman, David Z Cherney, Heather N Reich, James W Scholey, David B Dunger, Farid H Mahmud
Sep 21, 2018
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the social determinants of health and markers of early renal injury in adolescent patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). STUDY DESIGN: Renal outcomes included estimated glomerular...
Lifestyle drift and the phenomenon of ‘citizen shift’ in contemporary UK health policy
Despite political change over the past 25 years in Britain there has been an unprecedented national policy focus on the social determinants of health and population-based approaches to prevent chronic disease. Yet, policy...
advanced liberalism England health inequalities obesity physical activity Social Determinants of Health /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306 name=Health(social science) /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2719 name=Health Policy /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2739 name=Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Modification of social determinants of health by critical illness and consequences of that modification for recovery
Joanne McPeake, Leanne Boehm, Elizabeth Hibbert, Katrina Hauschildt, Rita Bakhru, Anthony Bastin, Brad Butcher, Tammy Eaton, Wendy Harris, Aluko Hope, James Jackson, Annie Johnson, Janet Kloos, Karen Korzick, Judith McCartney, Joel Meyer, Ashley Montgomery-Yates, Tara Quasim, Andrew Slack, Dorothy Wade, Mary Still, Giora Netzer, Ramona O Hopkins, Mark E Mikkelsen, Theodore Iwashyna, Kimberley Haines, Carla Sevin
Oct 29, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Social determinants of health (SDoH) contribute to health outcomes. We identified SDoH that were modified by critical illness, and the effect of such modifications on recovery from critical illness. DESIGN: In-depth...
Social disadvantage, linguistic distance, ethnic minority status and first-episode psychosis
Hannah E Jongsma, Charlotte Gayer-Anderson, Ilaria Tarricone, Eva Velthorst, Els van der Ven, Diego Quattrone, Marta Di Forti, EU-GEI WP2 Group, Paulo Rossi Menezes, Christina Marta Del-Ben, Celso Arango, Antonio Lasalvia, Domenico Berardi, Caterina La Cascia, Julio Bobes, Miguel bernardo, Julio Sanjuán, Jose Luis Santos, Manuel Arrojo, Lieuwe de Haan, Andrea Tortelli, Andrei Szöke, Robin M Murray, Bart P Rutten, Jim van Os, Craig Morgan, Peter B Jones, James B Kirkbride
Feb 18, 2020
discrimination EPIDEMIOLOGY Ethnicity Psychotic Disorders social disadvantage Adolescent Adult Black People Case-Control Studies Communication Barriers Ethnic and Racial Minorities Ethnicity Europe Female Gene-Environment Interaction Health Status Disparities Humans Male Middle Aged Odds Ratio Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia Social Determinants of Health White People Young Adult
Allied health professionals
A Gkiouleka, MRJ Aquino, O Ojo-Aromokudu, KR van Daalen, IL Kuhn, E Turner-Moss, K Thomas, R Barnard, R Strudwick, J Ford
Oct 15, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) have a crucial role in reducing health inequalities. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding the ways they can fulfil this role. This rapid review explores the ways in which...
Culture Matters in Communicating the Global Response to COVID-19.
CO Airhihenbuwa, J Iwelunmor, D Munodawafa, CL Ford, T Oni, C Agyemang, C Mota, OB Ikuomola, L Simbayi, MP Fallah, Z Qian, B Makinwa, C Niang, I Okosun
May 17, 2021
Current communication messages in the COVID-19 pandemic tend to focus more on individual risks than community risks resulting from existing inequities. Culture is central to an effective community-engaged public health...
Dietary Patterns, Food Insecurity, and Their Relationships with Food Sources and Social Determinants in Two Small Island Developing States.
Divya Bhagtani, Eden Augustus, Emily Haynes, Viliamu Iese, Catherine R Brown, Jioje Fesaitu, Ian Hambleton, Neela Badrie, Florian Kroll, Arlette Saint-Ville, Thelma Alafia Samuels, Nita G Forouhi, Sara E Benjamin-Neelon, Nigel Unwin, On Behalf Of The CFaH Team
Sep 02, 2022
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have high burdens of nutrition-related chronic diseases. This has been associated with lack of access to adequate and affordable nutritious foods and increasing reliance on imported foods....
Socioeconomic determinants of leprosy new case detection in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort
Joilda Silva Nery, Anna Ramond, Julia Moreira Pescarini, André Alves, Agostino Strina, Maria Yury Ichihara, Maria Lucia Fernandes Penna, Liam Smeeth, Laura C Rodrigues, Mauricio L Barreto, Elizabeth B Brickley, Gerson Oliveira Penna
Sep 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Although leprosy is recognised as a disease of poverty, there is little evidence on the specific socioeconomic factors associated with disease risk. To inform targeted strategies for disease elimination, we...
Social determinants of depression and suicidal behaviour in the Caribbean
Catherine R Brown, Ian R Hambleton, Natasha Sobers-Grannum, Shawn M Hercules, Nigel Unwin, E Nigel Harris, Rainford Wilks, Marlene MacLeish, Louis Sullivan, Madhuvanti M Murphy, U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR)
Jul 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Depressive disorder is the largest contributor to years lived with disability in the Caribbean, adding 948 per 100,000 in 2013. Depression is also a major risk factor for suicidal behaviour. Social inequalities...
'They Are Kids, Let Them Eat'
Erica Jane Cook, Faye Caroline Powell, Nasreen Ali, Catrin Pedder Penn-Jones, Bertha Ochieng, Georgina Constantinou, Gurch Randhawa
Jan 04, 2022
In the UK, ethnic minority children are at greater risk of obesity and weight-related ill health compared to the wider national population. The factors that influence the provision of a healthy diet among these populations...
Gender and palliative care
There has been a systematic and largely unconscious neglect of gender in palliative care research, practice and policy. This is despite significant, although previously uncollated, evidence that gender influences almost all...
Sociodemographic inequities associated with participation in leisure-time physical activity in sub-Saharan Africa
Anna Louise Barr, Uttara Partap, Elizabeth H. Young, Kokou Agoudavi, Naby Balde, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Mary T. Mayige, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Gerald Mutungi, Omar Mwalim, Chea S. Wesseh, Silver K. Bahendeka, David Guwatudde, Jutta M. Adelin Jørgensen, Pascal Bovet, Ayesha A. Motala, Manjinder S. Sandhu
Jun 15, 2020
Abstract: Background: Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is an important contributor to total physical activity and the focus of many interventions promoting activity in high-income populations. Little is known about LTPA in...
Is digital health care more equitable?
Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK...
e-Health Health Policy healthism Internet Social Determinants of Health Youth /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306 name=Health(social science) /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2719 name=Health Policy /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2739 name=Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Sociodemographic inequities associated with participation in leisure-time physical activity in sub-Saharan Africa
Anna Louise Barr, Uttara Partap, Elizabeth H. Young, Kokou Agoudavi, Naby Balde, Gibson B. Kagaruki, Mary T. Mayige, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Gerald Mutungi, Omar Mwalim, Chea S. Wesseh, Silver K. Bahendeka, David Guwatudde, Jutta M. Adelin Jørgensen, Pascal Bovet, Ayesha A. Motala, Manjinder S. Sandhu
Jun 15, 2021
Abstract: Background: Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is an important contributor to total physical activity and the focus of many interventions promoting activity in high-income populations. Little is known about LTPA in...
Association of Environment With the Risk of Developing Psychotic Disorders in Rural Populations
IMPORTANCE: Social determinants are important risk factors for the development of first-episode psychosis (FEP); their effects in rural areas are largely unknown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate neighborhood-level factors associated...
Lifestyle drift and the phenomenon of ‘citizen shift’ in contemporary UK health policy
Despite political change over the past 25 years in Britain there has been an unprecedented national policy focus on the social determinants of health and population-based approaches to prevent chronic disease. Yet, policy...
advanced liberalism England health inequalities obesity physical activity Social Determinants of Health /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306 name=Health(social science) /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2719 name=Health Policy /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2739 name=Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Changing behaviour
Theresa Marteau and colleagues argue that behavioural and social causes of poor health must be tackled in parallel to reduce inequalities
Promoting physical activity among community groups of older women in socio-economically disadvantaged areas
BACKGROUND: Insufficient physical activity (PA) is a major public health issue. Whilst PA is an important contributor to disease prevention, engagement in PA decreases with age, particularly among women in socio-economically...
community-based intervention Older women physical activity social networks Socio-economically disadvantaged Age Factors Community Health Services Cultural Deprivation Exercise Feasibility Studies Female Group Processes Health Knowledge Attitudes practice Health Promotion Healthy lifestyle Humans Middle Aged Northern Ireland Patient Education as Topic Patient Participation patient satisfaction Poverty Sex Factors Social Determinants of Health social support Telephone Vulnerable Populations Women's Health Women's Health Services
Social determinants of breast cancer in the Caribbean
Catherine R Brown, Ian R Hambleton, Shawn M Hercules, Miriam Alvarado, Nigel Unwin, Madhuvanti M Murphy, E Nigel Harris, Rainford Wilks, Marlene MacLeish, Louis Sullivan, Natasha Sobers-Grannum, U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR)
Jul 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the Caribbean and accounts for >1 million disability adjusted life years. Little is known about the social inequalities of this disease in the...