2004
Does
access to cardiac investigation and treatment contribute to social
and ethnic differences in coronary heart disease? Whitehall II
prospective cohort study
BRITTON, Annie, Martin SHIPLEY, Michael MARMOT et Harry HEMINGWAY,
BMJ 2004;329:318 (7 August).
Differences in medical care are unlikely to contribute to social
or ethnic differences in the epidemiology of coronary artery disease.
Britton and colleagues who followed up more than 10 000 participants
in the Whitehall II study for over 15 years, found that South Asians
and poorer people—who are more likely to have coronary artery
disease—had the same access to cardiac procedures and medication
as other social groups. The higher mortality from cardiac disease
in poorer people and South Asians would have to be explained by
other biological, behavioural, and psychosocial explanations, conclude
the authors.
2003
Achieving
equity in the Australian healthcare system
LEEDER Stephen R. Med J Aust – 3 November 2003 ; 179 (9):
475-478
Electronic Bulletin
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bulletin on innovation in health services aims at spreading
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On a weekly basis, the bulletin gives content about relevant events
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Is
the NHS equitable? A review of the evidence
DIXON , Ana, Julian LE GRAND John HENDERSON , Rchard MURRAY and Emmi POTELIAKHOFF.
LSE Health and Social Care Discussion Paper 11, November 2003.
Local
basket of inequalities indicators
FITZPATRICK, Justine and Bobbie Jacobson. London Health
Observatory, October 2003
Monitoring
Equity in Health and Healthcare: A conceptual framework
BRAVEMAN, Paula A., Journal Health Popul Nutr 2003 September;
21(3): 181-192.ICDDR, B: Centre
Poverty
and Health – CPHI collected papers
Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI ). Canadian Institute
for Health Information : Ottawa . June 2003
This collection provides insight into links between poverty and
health. Two working papers, by Shelley Phipps and David Ross, offer
perspective on what we know from research and relevant policy approaches
respectively. A third paper reports on proceedings of a national
roundtable on poverty and health hosted by CPHI in the spring of
2002. Areas of agreement and disagreement regarding the relationship
between poverty and health are identified.
Available reports
- The impact of poverty on health – A scan of research
literature, Shelley Phipps
- Policy approaches to address the impact of poverty
on health – a scan of policy literature, David P. Ross
- Poverty and Health: Links to action – Proceedings
of the CPHI National Roundtable on Poverty and Health, March
26, 2002
Variations
des écarts de santé en fonction du revenu au Québec
de 1987 à 1998 . Institut de la statistique
du Québec, October 2003.
The report Variation des écarts de l'état de santé en
fonction du revenu au Québec de 1987 à 1998 (differences
in health status based on income in Québec from 1987 to 1998)
sets out the results of a study by Marc Ferland, of the Québec
regional health and social services board (RRSSS), on the measurement
over a period of time of selected health indicators among the various
socioeconomic groups. (In FRENCH)
2002
A
reexamination of smoking before, during, and after pregnancy
KAHN, Robert S., Laura CERTAIN and Robert C. Whitaker. In American
Journal of Public Health, Vol. 92 – No. 11 (November 2002) :
1801-1808.
Birth weight,
childhood socioeconomic environment, and cognitive development in
the 1958 British birth cohort study
JEFFERIS, Barbara J M H, Chris POWER and Clyde HERTZMAN. BMJ 2002;
325 :305 (10 August). (Downloadable document PDF
format)
Illiteracy
in rheumatoid arthritis patients as determined by the Rapid Estimate
of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) score
GORDON, M.-M., R. HAMPSON, H.A CAPELL and R. MADHOK. Rheumatology
2002; 41 : 750-754.
Socioeconomic
variations in responses to chest pain : qualitative study
RICHARDS, Helen Mary, Elspeth REID and Graham Charles MURRAY WATT.
BMJ 2002; 324 : 1308 (1 June).(Downloadable document
PDF format)
Trauma
and deprivation in Quebec
HAMEL, Denis and Robert PAMPALON. Québec, Institut national
de santé publique du Québec, 2002. (ISBN : 2-550-39265-5)
(Downloadable document PDF format)
Studies show a relationship between social inequality and intentional
and unintentional trauma. The recent development of a deprivation
index (Pampalon et al., 2000) enables us to better understand this
relationship with data from Quebec.
Trends
in Mortality by Income in Urban Canada from 1971 to 1996
Russell WILKINS, Edward NG and Jean-Marie BERTHELOT. Health Reports
2002; 13 (Supplement) : 1-27. (Statistics Catalogue 82-003-SIE) (Downloadable
document PDF format)
2001
Inequality is bad for our hearts : Why low income and social exclusion
are major causes of heart disease in Canada (Downloadable
document PDF format)
RAPHAËL, Dennis. Toronto: North York Heart Health Network. 2001
Trends in Mortality
by Income in Urban Canada from 1971 to 1996
Russell WILKINS, Edward NG and Jean-Marie Berthelot. Health Analysis
and Modeling Group (Statistics Canada), November 2001.
The goal of this study was to determine whether inequalities in
mortality related to income had decreased since 1971. For general
mortality and for most specific causes, differences linked to income
declined significantly between 1971 and 1996. More detailed results
show the causes of death associated with decreasing, increasing
or stable economic disparity, by different periods.
2000
Inégalités sociales de santé (Les)
LECLERC, Annette (sous la direction de). Paris, Éditions la
Découverte / Inserm, 2000. (ISBN : 2-7071-3247)
Ce livre regroupe entre autres les principales données disponibles
sur les inégalités devant la mort et la maladie en
France.
1999
Statistical
report on the health of Canadians
Federal, Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population
Health. Ottawa : Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Canada, 1999. Catalogue No. H39-467/1999E. (ISBN 0-662-27623-X).
Towards
a health future
Federal, Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population
Health. Ottawa : Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Canada, 1999. Cat H39-468/1999E. (ISBN 0-662-27625-6).
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