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Diet and Nutritional Status of Food Aid Recipients. The 2011–2012 Abena Study and Trends Since 2004–2005.
The first Abena study, conducted in 2004–2005 by the InVS, provided a description of the sociodemographic and economic profiles, dietary habits, and nutritional status of food aid...
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The Contributions and Limitations of Health Barometers in Identifying Social Inequalities in Health: The Case of Psychoactive Substance Use.
Introduction. Data from the 2005 Health Barometer on perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors regarding the use of psychoactive substances allow for analyses based on educational...
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What strategies can be used to reduce social inequalities in health related to smoking?
Smoking accounts for nearly half of the gap in life expectancy between the most and least advantaged populations, due to higher smoking rates among the latter.
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In Poitiers, the fight against inequality centers on housing and nutrition.
Policies aimed at addressing social inequalities in health cannot be limited to promoting access to rights and healthcare. The city of Poitiers has made its school cafeterias more...
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When it comes to inequality, collective responsibility takes precedence over individual behavior.
Inequalities are not the result of individual behavior but of living conditions and the environment. Social inequalities in health are very strongly determined by socioeconomic factors....
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Identifying the social determinants of inequality to enable action: a methodological initiative.
How can we measure social inequalities in health? This is a particularly difficult task. The three criteria commonly used in population surveys are: socioeconomic status, income, and...
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Can health education in schools help reduce social inequalities in health?
A team of researchers analyzed the international scientific literature to examine the impact of school-based health education on potential reductions in health inequalities. These...
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Why and how do inequalities become systemic?
How do inequalities arise, and how are they interconnected? Pierre Volovitch explains how inequalities accumulate and “form a system,” whether they pertain to income, educational...
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It is living conditions and their social determinants that shape inequalities.
According to Michael Marmot, chair of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health, social injustice kills on a massive scale. The links between...
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WHO: A Framework for Action to Reduce Social Inequalities in Health.
In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe commissioned Michael Marmot to conduct a study on the social determinants of health and health inequalities in the...
