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The Impact of Socio-Economic Conditions on Individuals’ Health: Development of an Index and Examination of its Association with Three of the Most Frequently Registered Diseases in Lazio Region of Italy
This study examines spatial disparities and associations between the social deprivation index (SDI) and Type 2 Diabetes, Dementia, and Heart Failure...
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Food Access and Social Capital
As mentioned in Chapter 1 , we hypothesized that food access (i.e. the distance between homes and the...
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Relevance of Social and Behavior Change and Communications in the Media on COVID-19 Response
The important role of social and behavior change and communication strategies in the prevention of infection is discussed. These strategies have two...
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How denialist amplification spread COVID misinformation and undermined the credibility of public health science
Denialist scientists played an outsized role in sha** public opinion and determining public health policy during the recent COVID pandemic. From...
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Develo** an Interdisciplinary Reading of Ghanaian Health Data Histories: An Introduction
Health datahealth data is indispensable for the routine operation, monitoringmonitoring, and planningplanning of interventions in public health...
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The Social Determinants of Health and Illness
Health professionals now realize that contemporary health problems have their roots in social conditions rather than being a function of biological...
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The Capability Approach in Epidemiological Studies
Population epidemiology is the science that deals with disorders and certain conditions at the population level, i.e. at the macro-level. In contrast...
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Section 498A of Indian Penal Code: A Legal Instrument for Social Change
CrueltyDowry/ Dowry demands/ Dowry death/ Prohibition Act 1961/ 498A/ The Criminal Law (Second) Amendment Act 1983/ Cruelty in the marital home is an...
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Health and Social Concerns in Elderly Men
India, the world’s second most populous country, has seen a rapid increase in its share of older people in the last decade. Elderly population,...
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Place of Integrative Approaches in the Study of Spatial Dimension of Health Outcomes
As the concept of exposome is nowadays emphasized for its integrative virtues, this holistic vision of pathogenesis was already shared by some...
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The Buffering Effects of Social Capital on Inequalities in Subjective Well-Being Among Older People
Empirical evidence regarding the buffering effects of community social capital on health inequality is limited. This study aims to examine the...
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COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies
This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the causes and impacts of COVID-19 on populations, economies, politics, institutions and...
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The Roots of Population Health
A number of disciplines have contributed to the evolution of population health, with public health foremost among these. In some ways, population...
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Urbanicity and Depression among Chinese Youth: a Cross-Sectional Study Based on the China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey
Many of China’s youth are struggling with mental health problems, and 24.6% of them were threatened by depression in 2022. Although various factors,...
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Drones and epidemiology: A new anatomy for surveillance
This article analyses drones as an upcoming device in the field of epidemiology. It is based on a research project which aims to track the variations...
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Risks and Benefits of Medical Tourism in Terms of Quality of Life: Physical, Economic, Psychological and Social Aspects
Traveling to different destinations in terms of the utilization of medical facilities and activities is known as “medical tourism” in the literature....
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HIV: Its History, Science and Epidemiology
In this chapter, the history, science and epidemiology of HIV are discussed beginning with an overview of the origins of HIV, how it came to affect...