La salud ha sido considerada, de manera tradicional, como la ausencia de enfermedad.
Este concepto es sumamente limitado, por ello la Organización Mundial de la Salud en …

This paper examines the multiple oppressions faced by Aboriginal women as a result of
Canada's sexist and racist colonial past. We explore the destructive affects of colonization …

African Americans living in rural USA experience multiple health disparities as a result of
both race and rural geography. An increasing literature suggests that social determinants of …

This research is focused on methodological challenges and considerations associated with
the estimation of the geographical aspects of access to healthcare with a focus on rural and …

Background In the last several years, research related to social determinants of health
(SDH) has begun to resonate in the medical, behavioral, social and political sciences arena …

Rationale People with epilepsy (PWE) have a higher risk of mortality than the general
population, because of disparities in the receipt of appropriate epilepsy care, which may be …

Background Previous studies have shown that contextual factors and individual
socioeconomic status (SES) were associated with mortality in Western developed countries …

A key component of provincial health reform plans in the 1990s (and directly linked to the
process of health system regionalization) was the attempt to move funding for service …

This study set out to investigate differences in geographic accessibility to community‐based
physiotherapists (PTs) and family physicians (FPs), identify poorly served communities …

Background Neighborhood environment, both actual and perceived, is associated with
health outcomes; however, much of this research has relied on self-reports of these …