Social class differences in lung cancer mortality: risk factor explanations using two Scottish cohort studies
The study investigated differences in lung cancer mortality risk between social classes. Methods Twenty years of mortality follow-up were analyzed in 7052 men and 8354 women from the Renfrew/Paisley g...
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Lung Neoplasms, Social Class, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Women's exposure to early and later life socioeconomic disadvantage and coronary heart disease risk: the Stockholm Female Coronary Risk StudY
Measures of low socioeconomic position have been associated with increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) among women. A more complete understanding of this association is gained when socioecon...
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Coronary Disease, Women, Socioeconomic Factors, Coronary Disease, Health Equity
Time trends of major coronary risk factors in a northern Italian population (1986-1994). How remarkable are socioeconomic differences in an industrialized low CHD incidence country?
The goals are to estimate time trends (1986-1994) of major coronary risk factors in an industrialized low CHD incidence population and to assess education class (EC) differences in risk factor prevale...
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Gender Identity, Coronary Disease, Health Equity, Coronary Risk Factors/TD, Socio-economic Factors
Commentary: General or cause-specific factors in explanations of class inequalities in health
Findings in these papers are particularly relevant to our understanding of the causes of class inequalities in health. The first of these concerns the extent to which controlling for the known higher ...
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Health Status Disparities, Mortality, Social Class, Health Equity
Grupo de trabajo: Biblioteca Virtual en Salud, Equidad y Desarrollo Humano
La Biblioteca Virtual en Salud en general es la expresión de un nuevo paradigma de disponibilidad, organización y acceso a la información. Donde el espacio es virtual, con acceso desde cualquier lu...
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16/05/2001
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Libraries, Digital, Information Centers, Abogacía
The Economics of public and private roles in health care: Insights from institutional economics and organizational theory
International experience indicates that the underlying cause of most threats to good health are well known today, and affordable drugs, surgeries and other interventions are often available, even in l...
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Health Services, Health Equity, Financing, Health, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease
Climate changes can clearly influence many infectious diseases, but it is not yet possible to determine whether global warming will cause diseases to spread. Although some studies have linked higher i...
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01/05/2001
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Communicable Diseases, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Hoja resumen sobre desigualdades en salud: Nicaragua
Las "Hojas-Resumen" presentan una breve descripción de cada variable estudiada, las gráficas y datos utilizados, con un comentario sintético sobre los mismos. Una de las principales utilidades de e...
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Equidad en estado de salud
Fit and fifty?
In countries across Europe governments are facing aging populations, increasing dependency ratios and the need to increase the labor market participation of older men and women. In the past, the lifes...
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Aged, Health Equity
Equality of what? Sovereign virtue: The theory and practice of equality
Here are two important questions of public policy in which it looks as though we have to choose between liberty and equality. Some people think tax laws, which clearly limit our freedom to spend our m...
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