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The political origins of health inequity: prospects for change
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Ole Petter Ottersen, Jashodhara Dasgupta, Chantal Blouin, Paulo Buss, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Julio Frenk, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Bience P Gawanas, Rita Giacaman, John Gyapong, Jennifer Leaning, Michael Marmot, Desmond McNeill, Gertrude I Mongella, Nkosana Moyo, Sigrun MAbout:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2014-02-15. It has received 528 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health equity & Social determinants of health.read more
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health
Philip J. Landrigan,Richard Fuller,Nereus J R Acosta,Olusoji Adeyi,Robert G. Arnold,Niladri Basu,Abdoulaye Bibi Baldé,Roberto Bertollini,Stephan Bose-O'Reilly,Stephan Bose-O'Reilly,Jo Ivey Boufford,Patrick N. Breysse,Thomas C. Chiles,Chulabhorn Mahidol,Awa M Coll-Seck,Maureen L. Cropper,Julius N. Fobil,Valentin Fuster,Valentin Fuster,Michael Greenstone,Andy Haines,David Hanrahan,David J. Hunter,Mukesh Khare,Alan Krupnick,Bruce P. Lanphear,Bindu Lohani,Keith Martin,Karen V Mathiasen,Maureen A. McTeer,Christopher J L Murray,Johanita D Ndahimananjara,Frederica P. Perera,Janez Potočnik,Alexander S Preker,Alexander S Preker,Jairam Ramesh,Johan Rockström,Carlos Salinas,Leona D. Samson,Karti Sandilya,Peter D. Sly,Kirk R. Smith,Achim Steiner,Richard B. Stewart,William A. Suk,Onno C. P. van Schayck,Gautam N. Yadama,Kandeh K. Yumkella,Ma Zhong +49 more
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Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Rupert R A Bourne,Seth Flaxman,Tasanee Braithwaite,Maria V Cicinelli,Aditi Das,Jost B. Jonas,Jill E Keeffe,John H Kempen,Janet L Leasher,Hans Limburg,Kovin Naidoo,Kovin Naidoo,Konrad Pesudovs,Serge Resnikoff,Serge Resnikoff,Alexander J Silvester,Gretchen A Stevens,Nina Tahhan,Nina Tahhan,Tien Yin Wong,Hugh R. Taylor,Rupert R A Bourne,Peter Ackland,Aries Arditi,Yaniv Barkana,Banu Bozkurt,Alain M. Bron,Donald L. Budenz,Feng Cai,Robert J Casson,Usha Chakravarthy,Jaewan Choi,Maria Vittoria Cicinelli,Nathan Congdon,Reza Dana,Rakhi Dandona,Lalit Dandona,Iva Dekaris,Monte A. Del Monte,Jenny deva,Laura Dreer,Leon B. Ellwein,Marcela Frazier,Kevin D. Frick,David S. Friedman,João M. Furtado,H. Gao,Gus Gazzard,Ronnie George,Stephen Gichuhi,Victor H. Gonzalez,Billy R. Hammond,Mary Elizabeth Hartnett,Minguang He,James F. Hejtmancik,Flavio E. Hirai,John J Huang,April D. Ingram,Jonathan C. Javitt,Jost B. Jonas,Charlotte E. Joslin,John H. Kempen,John H. Kempen,Moncef Khairallah,Rohit C Khanna,Judy E. Kim,George N. Lambrou,Van C. Lansingh,Paolo Lanzetta,Jennifer I. Lim,Kaweh Mansouri,Anu A. Mathew,Alan R. Morse,Beatriz Munoz,David C. Musch,Vinay Nangia,Maria Palaiou,Maurizio Battaglia Parodi,Fernando Yaacov Pena,Tunde Peto,Harry A. Quigley,Murugesan Raju,Pradeep Y. Ramulu,Alan L. Robin,Luca Rossetti,Jinan B. Saaddine,Mya Sandar,Janet B. Serle,Tueng T. Shen,Rajesh K. Shetty,Pamela C. Sieving,Juan Carlos Silva,Rita S. Sitorus,Dwight Stambolian,Gretchen Stevens,Hugh Taylor,Jaime Tejedor,James M. Tielsch,Miltiadis K. Tsilimbaris,Jan C. van Meurs,Rohit Varma,Gianni Virgili,Jimmy Volmink,Ya Xing Wang,Ningli Wang,Sheila K. West,Peter Wiedemann,Tien Wong,Richard Wormald,Yingfeng Zheng +109 more
TL;DR: There is an ongoing reduction in the age-standardised prevalence of blindness and visual impairment, yet the growth and ageing of the world's population is causing a substantial increase in number of people affected, highlighting the need to scale up vision impairment alleviation efforts at all levels.
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