ReviewAnnual review of public health2012
Health inequalities: trends, progress, and policy.
Review in Annual review of public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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110 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Frameworks for implementation of policies promoting healthy nutrition and physically active lifestyle: systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- Socioeconomic gradients in the effects of universal school-based health behaviour interventions: a systematic review of intervention studies.BMC public health · 2015Pooled it
- Disparities in cardiovascular disease among Caribbean populations: a systematic literature review.BMC public health · 2015Pooled it
- Community coalition-driven interventions to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Effects of Universal School-Based Parental Support for Children's Healthy Diet and Physical Activity-the Healthy School Start Plus Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
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- Community engagement and empowerment to address health inequalities: A rapid evidence review.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Causal Inference in Health Disparities Research.Annual review of public health · 2026Review
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- Health Inequalities, Disparities, Equity: What's in a Name?American journal of public health · 2025Article
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- Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Prevalence of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in China: Evidence from Shaanxi Province During 2003-2013.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Lifespan Disparity Dataset: An open repository on inequality and polarization in length of life (1950-2021).Scientific data · 2024Article
- Validity of European-centric cardiometabolic polygenic scores in multi-ancestry populations.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2024Article
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- Socio-ecological factors linked with changes in adults' dietary intake in Los Angeles County during the peak of the coronavirus 2019 pandemic.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Patient experiences in primary care do not differ according to rurality: a cross-sectional study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Unveiling early childhood health inequities by age five through the national neighborhood equity index and the early development instrument.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Determinants of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Hunan province, China: a case-control study.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
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Abstract
Health inequalities, which have been well documented for decades, have more recently become policy targets in developed countries. This review describes time trends in health inequalities (by sex, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status), commitments to reduce health inequalities, and progress made to eliminate health inequalities in the United States, United Kingdom, and other OECD countries. Time-trend data in the United States indicate a narrowing of the gap between the best- and worst-off groups in some health indicators, such as life expectancy, but a widening of the gap in others, such as diabetes prevalence. Similarly, time-trend data in the United Kingdom indicate a narrowing of the gap between the best- and worst-off groups in some indicators, such as hypertension prevalence, whereas the gap between social classes has increased for life expectancy. More research and better methods are needed to measure precisely the relationships between stated policy goals and observed trends in health inequalities.
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