health disparities. Among the so-called socioeconomic determinants of health are income, education, and the distribution of … social capital. One factor that has been overlooked in this discussion is the effect that stigmatization can have on health …. In this paper, I identify two ways that social stigma can create health disparities: directly by impacting health …

Health disparities represent a significant strand in the fabric of racial injustice in the United States, one that has … limited progress in narrowing the health gap between whites and racial and ethnic minorities. The implementation of the … Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the movement toward value-based payment methods for health care may supply a new avenue for …

Health represents one of the thematic priorities for smart specialisation. Until now the difficulty in properly … measuring research and innovation (R&I) in Health sector has represented a barrier to address specific policies in favour of … difficulty in clearly defining the boundaries of the Health sector. Data provided by European Commission, focusing on Health as …

at the population level, which unveils the underlying health burden of ageing. The current study aims to measure the ARD … health development, and assess the impact of health resource allocation on this burden.Methods: We used the longitudinal data … 31 provinces in mainland China, and from China Statistical and Health Statistical Yearbooks for health resources and …