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8. The Determinants of a Population's Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation's Health Status?
Theodore R. Marmor,Morris L. Barer,R. G. Evans +2 more
- pp 215-230
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The article was published on 1994-12-31. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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Social determinants and the health of drug users: socioeconomic status, homelessness, and incarceration.
Sandro Galea,David Vlahov +1 more
TL;DR: Public health interventions aimed at improving the health of drug users must address the social factors that accompany and exacerbate the health consequences of illicit drug use.
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Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Amy J. Schulz,Barbara A. Israel,David R. Williams,Edith A. Parker,Adam B. Becker,Sherman A. James +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that differences in socioeconomic status, exposure to unfair treatment or discrimination and experiences of acute life events make significant contributions to racial differences in women's health status.
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Population health and health promotion: what do they have to say to each other?
TL;DR: There is no single definition of health promotion, notwithstanding the World Health Organization's attempt to describe it as "the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health."
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A spatial analysis of the determinants of pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations in Ontario (1992-2001)
Eric J. Crighton,Susan J. Elliott,Rahim Moineddin,Pavlos S. Kanaroglou,Ross E.G. Upshur,Ross E.G. Upshur +5 more
TL;DR: The findings demonstrate the importance of broad age and gender-specific population-level factors in determining pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations, and illustrate the need for place and population-specific policies that take these factors into consideration.
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Applying an Ecosystem Approach to the Determinants of Health in Centro Habana
Annalee Yassi,Pedro Mas,Mariano Bonet,Robert B. Tate,Niurys Fernandez,Jerry Spiegel,M. Pérez +6 more
TL;DR: Findings in this first phase indicated that an ecosystem framework is invaluable in ascertaining determinants of health and prioritizing and evaluating interventions to improve the health of communities.
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Sharon Friel,Michael Marmot +1 more