Structural racism, mass incarceration, and the widening income gap between rich and poor all feed growing health inequalities in the USA, which the health care system—by its very design and financing - only helps exacerbate, ...
Apr 7, 2017
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Cold homes cost lives and harm the environment, according to a BMJ editorial published today to coincide with a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth and written by Professor Sir Michael Marmot.
May 13, 2011
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The standards and expectations to which men and woman generally conform impact health across life stages, health sectors and world regions, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jun 10, 2019
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Life expectancy in Scotland is markedly lower compared to other European nations and the UK as a whole. But what are the reasons for this higher mortality? An explanatory framework, synthesising the evidence is published ...
May 29, 2012
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Scientists at Newcastle University analyzed three common elective surgery procedures, primary hip and knee replacements and knee arthroscopies, between 1 April 1997 to 31 March 2019. Hip replacements are commonly used to ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Female teenagers living in neighbourhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show changes to their brain maturation that could indicate a higher risk of developing mental illness in adulthood, suggests a recently ...
Aug 22, 2017
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A new University of Michigan study found that African American men between the ages of 35 and 54 who experience discrimination also suffer from significant levels of depressive symptoms.
May 25, 2011
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Social determinants of health—the social conditions in which people grow up, live and work—can influence the risk of contracting AIDS and the mortality associated with the disease. This is the main conclusion of a new ...
Aug 16, 2023
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If you've been tempted lately to pull a Jughead and draw pupils on your closed eyelids to catch a few extra Z's in your morning meetings, you're not alone.
Nov 29, 2018
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Over the past two decades, conditional cash transfer programs have led to a 24% reduction in child mortality in Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador, equivalent to more than 700,000 child deaths averted, according to an impact evaluation ...
Jul 14, 2023
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