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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. Measuring how ‘similar’ or ‘dissimilar’ the different causes of death are can help us understand global health inequalities and patterns of mortality.

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Weight Loss Drugs arent “the answer”

Sheffield DPH

likely to widen health inequalities. It will therefore be important to assess the potential impact on health inequalities. This stuff is well documented strategy of those who would want to keep the eye of policy on individuals (pharma PR, the personal responsibility is the answer brigade, many more). What at 2yr.