The social determinants of health: it's time to consider the causes of the causes

P Braveman, L Gottlieb - Public health reports, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
During the past two decades, the public health community's attention has been drawn
increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care …

The anatomy of health care in the United States

H Moses, DHM Matheson, ER Dorsey, BP George… - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Health care in the United States includes a vast array of complex interrelationships among
those who receive, provide, and finance care. In this article, publicly available data were …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of life expectancy at birth: a longitudinal study on OECD countries

P Roffia, A Bucciol, S Hashlamoun - International Journal of Health …, 2023 - Springer
This paper analyses the influence of several determinants on life expectancy at birth in 36
OECD countries over the 1999–2018 period. We utilized a cross-country fixed-effects …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic status, health inequalities and non-communicable diseases: a systematic review

S Lago, D Cantarero, B Rivera, M Pascual… - Journal of Public …, 2018 - Springer
Aim A comprehensive approach to health highlights its close relationship with the social and
economic conditions, physical environment and individual lifestyles. However, this …

Socioeconomic inequalities in low birth weight in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia

ML Martinson, NE Reichman - American journal of …, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To compare associations between socioeconomic status and low birth weight
across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, countries that share …

Why do Americans have shorter life expectancy and worse health than do people in other high-income countries?

M Avendano, I Kawachi - Annual review of public health, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Americans lead shorter and less healthy lives than do people in other high-income
countries. We review the evidence and explanations for these variations in longevity and …

[HTML][HTML] Race/ethnic disparities in early childhood BMI, obesity and overweight in the United Kingdom and United States

A Zilanawala, P Davis-Kean, J Nazroo… - International journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
Objective: Racial/ethnic patterning in the risk of obesity and overweight has been observed
in early childhood; however, little research has compared these disparities between the …

The US health disadvantage relative to other high-income countries: findings from a National Research Council/Institute of Medicine report

SH Woolf, LY Aron - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
A new report1 from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (NRC/IOM)
documents that US males and females in almost all age groups—up to age 75 years—have …

Education and income show heterogeneous relationships to lifespan brain and cognitive differences across European and US cohorts

KB Walhovd, AM Fjell, Y Wang, IK Amlien… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Higher socio-economic status (SES) has been proposed to have facilitating and protective
effects on brain and cognition. We ask whether relationships between SES, brain volumes …

Socioeconomic inequalities in oral health in different European welfare state regimes

CC Guarnizo-Herreño, RG Watt, H Pikhart… - J Epidemiol …, 2013 - jech.bmj.com
Background There is very little information about the relationship between welfare regimes
and oral health inequalities. We compared socioeconomic inequalities in adults' oral health …