Implications for public health research of models and theories of disability : a scoping study
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Executive summary The multiple and overlapping crises faced by countries, regions, and the
world appear unprecedented in their magnitude and complexity. Protracted conflicts …

Importance To address elevated mortality rates and historically entrenched racial inequities
in mortality rates, the United States needs targeted efforts at all levels of government …

Background There is growing urgency to tackle issues of equity and justice in the USA and
worldwide. Health equity, a framing that moves away from a deficit mindset of what society is …

Policy Points A consensus regarding the need to orient health systems to address inequities
is emerging, with much of this discussion targeting population health interventions and …

Having a child hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a deviation from the
norms expected for pregnancy and childbirth. A NICU admission may be traumatic for some …

The public health (PH) sector is ideally situated to take a lead advocacy role in catalysing
and guiding multi‐sectoral action to address social determinants of health inequities, but …

Context Knowledge mobilisation (KM) is a vital strategy in efforts to improve public health
policy and practice. Linear models describing knowledge transfer and translation have …

Health literacy can be defined as the knowledge, motivation and competence to access,
understand, appraise and apply information to make decisions in terms of healthcare …

Background: Although traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability
in male and female patients worldwide, little is known about the effect of sex and gender on …