Tagged public health

February 18, 2022

An MSP from WEST Scotland has called for new taxation to tackle health inequalities in the poorest parts of Scotland. A report last week showed North Ayrshire again had the worst healthy...

Radical action needed to tackle racial health inequalities in the NHS, says damning report | Health

February 13, 2022

Radical action is urgently needed to tackle the “crushing” ethnic health inequalities of minorities in the NHS, leading experts have said, after a damning study found that the “vast” and “ widespread” in every ...

Uganda: CSOs call on government to clarify growing inequalities in public services and taxation

February 10, 2022

Civil society organizations have called on the government to come out to rectify the growing inequality between members of the public and different sectors in the country. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, ...

Inequality kills | PennLive Letters

February 3, 2022

The ten richest men in the world have more than doubled their wealth during the pandemic, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. Meanwhile, the incomes of 99% of the world have gone down. Oxfam notes that the ex...

A nursing teacher shares her experience with students at Anna Maria College

January 28, 2022

PAXTON — As a teacher, Karin Ciance teaches nursing students, using her nursing background to prepare them for their careers.She is the first nursing faculty in Anna Maria College history to be promoted to asso...

Growing State-Induced Inequality During Pandemic Has Killed Thousands – The Future of Social Democracy

January 24, 2022

The pandemic has made us realize a hard truth. Unequal access to income and opportunity does more than create unjust, unhealthy and unhappy societies – it kills people.Over the past two years, people have died...

The pandemic exposes a world of inequalities in health care

January 19, 2022

As the world enters its third year of reluctant coexistence with the coronavirus, global healthcare systems are strained under the impact of the hyper-infectious variant of Omicron. But, even as countri...

COVID Cases Rise in County Last Week | News, Sports, Jobs

January 11, 2022

BROWN COUNTY - New COVID cases topped 100 this week in Brown County with three more COVID deaths. Last week, only an increase of 56 cases was recorded. This week's figures are double wi...

Welcome to another great year for contributions to science

January 3, 2022

The year 2021 has been an unusual one in a significant way: rapid advances in science and technology have had an immediate and disproportionate impact on humanity. ...

Rising social inequalities under the New Zealand Labor government

December 14, 2021

Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 10:26 a.m.Opinion: Group for Socialist Equality By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality GroupDecember 14, 2021, original URL: https://ww...

Drinking water quality and health inequalities

November 3, 2021

The University of Maine at Augusta will host a webinar with a panel of experts on drinking water quality and health inequalities. Date: Wednesday November 10 noon to 1:30 p.m. THElocation: Virtu...

WAITR HOLDINGS INC. Management report and analysis of the financial position and operating results (Form 10-Q)

November 2, 2021

The following Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related no...

The Role of Electricity Access, Women’s Education, and Public Health Spending on Women’s Health: Evidence from ASACR-ASEAN Countries | BMC Women’s Health

November 1, 2021

Theoretical or empirical justification for the choice of variablesThe theoretical rationale for carrying out this study is based on various well-known and recognized theories and models, for example Becker's t...

Oxfam criticizes the lack of bold action by the G20 to tackle vaccine inequalities, climate change and promote a fair economic recovery – World

November 1, 2021

At the end of the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, Oxfam criticized the lack of bold and effective action by world leaders at such an important time in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Despite ...

Japan faces rising inequalities

October 16, 2021

The Japanese stock market rose and luxury cars are selling well in Tokyo after eight years of economic growth under Abenomics. Abenomics is the economic policy initiated under former Prime Minister Shinzo Ab...

Toronto’s 2021 vital signs report shows inequality at record high

October 5, 2021

New precariousness indicators, obstacles and opportunities identified for from Toronto Pandemic recovery TORONTO, October 5, 2021 / CNW / - The Toronto Foundation released its 18e biennial from Toronto Vital si...

Government agency launched on health inequalities to stop “preventable killers” like smoking and obesity

October 1, 2021

The Department of Health and Welfare has announced the creation of a new body to tackle health inequalities in the UK - and it will follow the lead of Professor Chris Whitty. The new Office for Improving Health...

£ 5million donation for a center to study wealth concentration, inequality and the economy

September 28, 2021

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation donated £ 5million ($ 7million) to establish the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Concentrat...

Watson of the ETSU, Mamudu named consultant editors of Johns Hopkins book series | Sunday Stories

August 22, 2021

Submitted by Jennifer HillTwo professors from East Tennessee State University have been selected as consultant editors of an innovative new series, "Race, Mental Health and Inequality in the 21st Century," by...

MI Analysis: No Correlation Between Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Activity Levels in Wisconsin

July 30, 2021

July 30, 2021By Bill Osmulski The MacIver Institute set out to answer a simple question. Is COVID-19 activity decreasing as vaccination rates increase? To answer this question, we collected da...

The Olympic event we need: a race to see where people live longest

July 23, 2021

What explains why the United States is doing so badly? In short: inequality. A growing number of epidemiologists - the scientists who study the health of populations - have come to view the wid...

50 years later: how the war on drugs increased inequality in America

July 22, 2021

Landscaping was not his lifelong dream.As a teenager, Alton Lucas believed that basketball or music would tear him away from North Carolina and take him across the world. By the late 1...

India’s COVID-19 death toll could be 10 times the official number, research finds

July 20, 2021

India's excessive death toll during the pandemic could represent 10 times the official toll of COVID-19, possibly making it the worst human tragedy in modern India, according to the most comprehensive research...

Oxfam report: States reducing health inequalities have fewer confirmed cases of Covid-19

July 20, 2021

India's low spending on public health systems and an emphasis on supporting private health care has resulted in serious inequalities in access to health care, especially during the Covid 19 pand...

Class division: how face masks became a symbol of inequality

July 3, 2021

One recent Sunday night at Bilboquet, a must-see restaurant in the Hamptons on Long Island, well-to-do diners munched on $ 475 cans of Osetra caviar. A handsome man showed his gold Audemars Piguet watch to ...

Wealth and inequality affect BP in the population with the lowest risk of heart disease in the world

July 3, 2021

Photo: Muneer Ahmed ok / Unsplash The idea of â€‹â€‹a "social scale" may be metaphorical, but a real and perceived societal ranking have real conseq...

MassRoots: NOTE 2 – CONTINUITY OF OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT LIQUIDITY PLANS

June 25, 2021

As of March 31, 2021, the Company had cash of $204 and a working capital deficit (current liabilities in excess of current assets) of $63,249,469. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the net loss...

Significant inequalities observed with popular Liverpool ‘mass test’ pilots

June 21, 2021

Credit: PIXTA / CC0 public domain A University of Liverpool study found asymptomatic COVID-19 testing in Liverpool to be popular, but there was significant inequality between those who did and thos...

CDC to give San Antonio Metro Health $ 27 million to fight inequalities exacerbated by COVID-19

June 16, 2021

SAN ANTONIO - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given more than $ 190 million in total to the state health department and Texas jurisdictions to address health and economic inequalities that...

Health Inequalities in UK Worsened by Covid Crisis, Study Finds | Coronavirus

June 14, 2021

The coronavirus crisis has disproportionately disrupted routine healthcare in society, with women, the elderly and ethnic minority groups most likely to report canceled or delayed appointments, orders and pr...

NHS flawed ethnicity data masks health inequalities, study finds

June 8, 2021

Poor ethnicity data masks the extent of disparities in the impact of COVID-19, according to a Nuffield Trust study. In one report on ethnic coding in English health services datasets, the independent health ...

New method accurately reflects outbreak hotspots

June 3, 2021

A new method of monitoring outbreaks like COVID-19 gives an accurate, real-time estimate of the growth rate of an outbreak by carefully assessing the relationship between the amount of virus in the bodies ...

Food intake, intestinal infection and drinking water in anemic children in Peru: a cross-sectional analysis | BMC Nutrition

June 2, 2021

A cross-sectional analysis was carried out with data from two public databases combined by child ID. One of the databases contained information from the national survey, Food and nutrition surveillance surv...

Inequalities have grown under this government – The New Indian Express

May 30, 2021

A just social and economic order is based on equity. Iniquitous government policies create social schisms. When large sections of the population feel discriminated against, disenchantm...

DHEC: 173 new cases of COVID-19 in HC, or 491,541 in total

May 29, 2021

COLUMBIA, SC (WCBD) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced an additional 173 cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina on Saturday, bringing the total to 491,54...

Nutritional Quality of the Food Choices of Canadian Children | BMC Nutrition

May 28, 2021

Experimental designThe 2015 CCHS is a cross-sectional survey that sampled the Canadian population from January 2, 2015 to December 31, 2015 . The survey design included a sampling of individuals according t...

Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: | Joanna L. Grossman | Verdict

March 23, 2021

Excited to learn that seven Texas teams had made it into the NCAA â€œMarch Madnessâ€ tournament, Governor Greg Abbott recorded a video message declaring ...

Racial residential segregation and economic disparity jointly exacerbate COVID‐19 fatality in large American cities – Yu – – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

March 23, 2021

It has become increasingly clear that the rate of fatalities during the current COVIDâ€19 pandemic caused by SARSâ€CoVâ€2 is relatively ...

Risk contagion of global stock markets under COVID‐19:A network connectedness method – Yu – – Accounting & Finance

March 23, 2021