Impact Initiative - Health: Recent submissions
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Sociodemographic Differences Between Alcohol Use and Sickness Absence: Pooled Analysis of Four Cohort Studies
(Oxford University Press, 2018)We examined differences in sickness absence in relation to at-risk drinking and abstinence, taking into account potential changes in consumption. -
The Sustainable Development Goals and Health Equity
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018)Invite the world to dream. That is what the United Nations (UN) did in 2012 through launching its unprecedented global consultation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the banner “the world we want.”1 Three ... -
Just Societies, Health Equity, and Dignified Lives: the PAHO Equity Commission
(Elsevier, 2018)The USA is the richest country in the Americas and its residents enjoy good health: female life expectancy is 81 years and male is 76 years. Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas; its residents suffer poor health: ... -
An Inverse Care Law for our Time
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018)“We are still able to do the most civilized thing in the world—put the welfare of the sick in front of every other consideration.” Julian Tudor Hart begins his book on his credo as a general practitioner with this quote, ... -
Man-made Disaster
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)In its last years, the Soviet Union was not meeting the needs of its citizens. One simple measure, life expectancy at age 15 years, showed the USSR to fall progressively further behind western Europe, all through the 1970s ... -
It's Getting Better all the Time
(Elsevier, 2018)I came to scoff and remain'd to pray. As Oliver Goldsmith reacted to church in 1770, so did I to Stephen Pinker's opus, Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. The book had been trailed as ... -
Residential Agricultural Pesticide Exposures and Risks of Spontaneous Preterm Birth
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018)Pesticides exposures are aspects of the human exposome that have not been sufficiently studied for their contribution to risk for preterm birth. We investigated risks of spontaneous preterm birth from potential residential ... -
Diet, Cancer, and NCD Prevention
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)Food excites the passions—and recommendations about what constitutes healthy eating can cause passionate disagreement. Witness the outpouring of diet books or polemics declaring that conventional wisdom is quite wrong on ... -
Inclusion Health: Addressing the Causes of the Causes
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)The social gradient in health describes a graded association between an individual's position on the social hierarchy and health: the lower the socioeconomic position of an individual, the worse their health. The fact ... -
Medical Care, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Equity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)Sir Michael Marmot writes on public health, social determinants of health, and health equity. -
Nordic Leadership and Global Activity on Health Equity Through Action on Social Determinants of Health
(SAGE, 2018)Always a good sleeper, I had many sleepless nights while chairing the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH). A principal cause of insomnia was worry over the question: why should ministers of education ... -
Inequalities in Asthma Mortality: a Specific Case of a General Issue of Health Inequalities
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Thoracic Society, 2018)Respiratory disease was always the ‘British’ disease. Not the most common cause of death in Britain, but the cause that most marked Britain as being different from other countries. In the same way, liver disease was the ... -
Health Equity, Cancer, and Social Determinants of Health
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)Two facts on non-communicable diseases claim attention: they are global in distribution and, increasingly, show marked social inequalities—the lower the social position, ... -
How Civil Society Organisations Changed the Regulation of Clinical Trials in India
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)In 2005 India changed its pharmaceutical and innovation policy that facilitated a dramatic increase in international clinical trials involving study sites in India. This policy shift was surrounded by controversies; civil ... -
Developing a Forward-looking Agenda and Methodologies for Research of Self-use of Medical Abortion
(Elsevier Inc., 2018)In December 2016, following the “Africa Regional Conference on Abortion: From Research to Policy,” a group of 20 global abortion researchers, representing nine different international organizations and universities, convened ... -
Trajectories of Women's Abortion-related Care: A Conceptual Framework
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)We present a new conceptual framework for studying trajectories to obtaining abortion-related care. It assembles for the first time all of the known factors influencing a trajectory and encourages readers to consider the ... -
'You Can Give Even if You Only Have Ten Rupees!': Muslim charity in a Colombo housing scheme
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)Recent research on contemporary modalities of Islamic or Muslim philanthropy has focused on processes of subjectification through which givers and recipients of charity are habituated or craft themselves to an ethic of ... -
Charity and Philanthropy in South Asia: An Introduction
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)There are no reliable figures to help us measure the volume of charitable donations in South Asia but, according to the 2014 World Giving Index, Sri Lanka is ranked ninth in the world for the charitable efforts of its ... -
A Cohort Study of the Effects of Older Adult Care Dependence Upon Household Economic Functioning, in Peru, Mexico and China
(PLOS, 2018)While links between disability and poverty are well established, there have been few longitudinal studies to clarify direction of causality, particularly among older adults in low and middle income countries. We aimed to ... -
Pro-poor Birth Coverage and Child Health in Africa
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)This paper explores which African countries had relatively low rates of underweight children and relatively high birth coverage (percentage of births with a skilled attendant) in the poorest quintile. Swaziland and Rwanda ...
