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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Health Status > Health Inequities
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Health Status > Health Inequities
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Health Status > Health Inequities
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Demography > Health Status > Health Inequities

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Health Inequities  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Health Inequalities
  • Health Inequality
  • Inequality, Health

Note

  • coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Scope note

  • Differences in health status and in the distribution of health resources between different population groups, arising from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age (https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes#:~:text=Health%20inequities%20are%20differences%20in,right%20mix%20of%20government%20policies.)

History note

  • 2022

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000091682

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