Category Archives: Health disparities

Health disparities, Desigualdades em saúde, disparidades de salud, disparités en matière de santé

Big Data Science: Opportunities and Challenges to Address Minority Health and Health Disparities in the 21st Century

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Xinzhi Zhang, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, Philip E. Bourne, Emmanuel Peprah, O. Kenrik Duru, Nancy Breen, David Berrigan, Fred Wood, James S. Jackson, David W.S. Wong, Joshua Denny Ethn.Dis;2017;27(2):95-106 Published online: April 2017 Abstract / Resumen: Addressing minority health and health disparities has been a missing piece of the puzzle in Big Data science. This article focuses […]


Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT): Software for exploring and comparing health inequalities

The World Health Organization Overview: Equity is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In pledging to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries have committed themselves to leave no one behind. Health inequality monitoring is critical to understand who is being left behind as it can identify differences in health between […]


Health inequalities by gradients of access to water and sanitation between countries in the Americas, 1990 and 2010

Rev Panam Salud Publica;38(5),nov. 2015


Call for papers: Gender and health inequalities – intersections with other relevant axes of oppression

Glob Health Action 2015, 8: 30292
Published: 30 November 2015


The Quest for Global Justice in Health: A Review of Global Health Law by Lawrence O. Gostin

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. Vol. 15: Iss. 2, Article 4.
Published online: October 2015


Educational inequalities in mortality and survival of women and men in the Americas, 1990–2010

Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2015:38(2):89–95
Published online: 13 October 2015


Human rights in the new Global Strategy

BMJ 2015;351:h4184
Published online: 14 September 2015


Promoting health equity: WHO health inequality monitoring at global and national levels

Glob Health Action 2015, 8: 29034
Published online: 18 September 2015


Trends in Longevity in the Americas: Disparities in Life Expectancy in Women and Men, 1965-2010

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PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129778.
Published: 19 June, 2015


Health Equity Through Action – Social Determinants of Health

Published online: June 2013