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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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Global action on social determinants of health
TL;DR: The European Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide is led by Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, and it is essential that work be done to adapt the CSDH findings to the diverse countries that make up the WHO European Region.
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Systematic Review
Tanja A. J. Houweling,Henrike E. Karim-Kos,Margarete C. Kulik,Margarete C. Kulik,Wilma A. Stolk,Juanita A. Haagsma,Edeltraud J. Lenk,Jan Hendrik Richardus,Sake J. de Vlas +8 more
TL;DR: NTD control activities as proposed in the London Declaration, when set up in a way that they reach the most in need, will benefit the poorest populations in poor countries.
The challenge of non-communicable diseases and road traffic injuries in Sub-Saharan Africa : an overview
TL;DR: The report suggests that NCDs and RTIs should not be tackled separately as a vertical program, nor should they displace communicable diseases as priorities, and there is scope for an integrated approach focusing on functions (prevention, treatment, and care) rather than on disease categories.
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Socioeconomic inequality in domains of health: results from the World Health Surveys
TL;DR: Inequalities which favor groups who are advantaged either with respect to wealth or education, were consistently statistically significant in each of the individual domains of health, and in health overall, however the size of these inequalities differed between health domains.
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Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding and associated factors among mothers in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.
Prakash Chandra Joshi,Prakash Chandra Joshi,Mirak Raj Angdembe,Mirak Raj Angdembe,Sumon Kumar Das,Shahnawaz Ahmed,Abu Syed Golam Faruque,Tahmeed Ahmed,Tahmeed Ahmed +8 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of EBF in Mirzapur (36%) is lower than the national figure (64%).
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