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Equity, social determinants and public health programmes
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This article is published in Indian Journal of Medical Research.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 311 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social determinants of health & Health equity.read more
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Changes in socioeconomic inequalities in the use of dental care following major healthcare reform in Chile, 2004-2009.
Marco Cornejo-Ovalle,Guillermo Paraje,Felipe Vásquez-Lavín,Glòria Pérez,Laia Palència,Carme Borrell +5 more
TL;DR: The use of dental care significantly increased between 2004 and 2009, especially in those with public health insurance, with lower educational level and lower socioeconomic status, and the CIndex for the total population significantly decreased.
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Universal health coverage and community engagement.
TL;DR: It is timely to consider the emerging role of non-traditional areas for health systems, such as community engagement, within UHC, in particular how community engagement can shape the delivery of quality health services that are safe, effective, efficient, equitable, people centred and that integrate care.
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Splash!: a prospective birth cohort study of the impact of environmental, social and family-level influences on child oral health and obesity related risk factors and outcomes.
Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski,Elizabeth Waters,Hanny Calache,Mike Smith,Lisa Gold,Mark Gussy,Anthony Scott,Kathleen E. Lacy,M Virgo-Milton +8 more
TL;DR: This research will provide a unique contribution to integrated health, education and social policy and program directions, by providing clearer policy relevant evidence on strategies to counter social and environmental factors which predispose infants and children to poor health, wellbeing and social outcomes.
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Situational analysis to inform development of primary care and community-based mental health services for severe mental disorders in Nepal.
TL;DR: Resources, challenges, and potential barriers to the development and implementation of evidence-based Comprehensive Community-based Mental Health Services (CCMHS) in accordance with the mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) for persons with severe mental health disorders and epilepsy are explored.
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The impact of the economic crisis on unmet dental care needs in Spain
Silvia Calzón Fernández,Alberto Fernández Ajuria,José Jesús Martín Martín,Matthew Joseph Murphy +3 more
TL;DR: There has been an increase in unmet dental care needs as well as in the social gradient for service access in Spain and the most vulnerable groups are those with less purchasing power and the unemployed.
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