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Migration-related health inequalities: Showing the complex interactions between gender, social class and place of origin
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The findings on immigrants from Spain highlight the transitory nature of the 'healthy immigrant effect', and that action on inequality in socio-economic determinants affecting migrant groups should not be deferred.Citations
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Mental Disorders in Megacities: Findings from the Sao Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey, Brazil
Laura Helena Andrade,Yuan-Pang Wang,Solange Andreoni,Camila Magalhães Silveira,Clóvis Alexandrino-Silva,Erica Rosanna Siu,Raphael Nishimura,James C. Anthony,Wagner F. Gattaz,Ronald C. Kessler,Maria Carmen Viana +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a representative cross-sectional household sample of 5,037 adults was interviewed face-to-face using the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), to generate diagnoses of DSM-IV mental disorders within 12 months of interview, disorder severity and treatment.
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Challenges in the provision of healthcare services for migrants: a systematic review through providers' lens.
TL;DR: It was evident that healthcare providers faced several challenges in managing care for migrants, which included not only language and cultural barriers, but also resource constraints within their workplaces, and disharmony between the law and their professional norms.
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Critical race theory as a tool for understanding poor engagement along the HIV care continuum among African American/Black and Hispanic persons living with HIV in the United States: a qualitative exploration
Robert Freeman,Marya Gwadz,Elizabeth Silverman,Alexandra Kutnick,Noelle R. Leonard,Amanda S. Ritchie,Jennifer Reed,Belkis Y. Martinez +7 more
TL;DR: Critical race theory proved useful in uncovering how macro-level structural racism affects individual-level health decisions and behaviors and interventions fostering core self-determination needs including autonomy may prove culturally appropriate and beneficial for AABH-PLWH.
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Undocumented immigrants and their use of medical services in Orange County, California.
TL;DR: Examination of medical care utilization of undocumented Latino immigrants compared to Latino legal immigrants and citizens, and non-Latino whites in Orange County, California shows that undocumented immigrants had relatively low incomes and were less likely to have medical insurance; experience a number of stresses in their lives; and underutilize medical services.
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Identifying socio-demographic and socioeconomic determinants of health inequalities in a diverse London community: the South East London Community Health (SELCoH) study
Stephani L. Hatch,Souci Frissa,Maria Verdecchia,Robert Stewart,Nicola T. Fear,Abraham Reichenberg,Craig Morgan,Bwalya Kankulu,Jennifer L. Clark,Billy Gazard,Robert Medcalf,Matthew Hotopf +11 more
TL;DR: Higher socioeconomic status was protective for common mental disorder, fair or poor health and long standing illness, but those with higher socioeconomic status reported higher levels of hazardous alcohol use and hazardous alcohol consumption.
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
A conceptual framework for action on the social determinants of health.
Orielle Solar,Alec Irwin +1 more
TL;DR: A shared understanding of where and how to intervene to reduce health inequities is sought that can orient the work of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health.
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health
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Human Development Report 2006 - Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis
TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors argue poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem of water scarcity in the early 21st century, and that prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis.
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Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development
TL;DR: The 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09) as mentioned in this paper investigates migration in the context of demographic changes and trends in both growth and inequality, and explores less visible movements typically pursued by disadvantaged groups such as short term and seasonal migration.