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Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.

important social inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections and related COVID-19 outcomes in the Belgian population. The aim of our study was to investigate the sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics ...

Global estimates of incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in 2020: a baseline analysis of the WHO Global Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative.

a public health problem (ie, to reduce the incidence of the disease below a threshold of 4 cases per 100 000 women-years). We aimed to assess the extent of global inequalities in cervical cancer incidence ...

Measuring small-area level deprivation in Belgium: The Belgian Index of Multiple Deprivation

has been mostly captured through simple and univariate measures such as low income or poor educational attainment in research on health and social inequalities in Belgium. This paper presents a shift ...

Shaping Physical, Economic, and Policy Components of the Food Environment to Create Sustainable Healthy Diets.

critical for ensuring equitable access to foods that are healthy, safe, affordable, and appealing. DISCUSSION: Current food environments are creating inequities, and sustainable healthy foods are generally ...

The potential impact of an implemented income redistribution package on obesity prevalence in New Zealand.

to assess associations between relative income (income inequality measured by Gini) and obesity prevalence (from the NCD-RisC) for OECD countries. Potential impact fractions were calculated to ...

Income-related inequality in smoking cessation among adult patients with cardiovascular disease: a 5-year follow-up of an angiography intervention in Luxembourg.

BACKGROUND: Smoking contributes to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), a leading cause of death and a large source of healthcare costs in Western countries. We examined the association between income and smoking ...

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking and Smoking Cessation Due to a Smoking Ban: General Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Luxembourg.

regression models were used to assess social inequalities in smoking cessation due to the 2006 smoking ban. Education level, income, and employment status served as proxies for socioeconomic status. The ...

Comparison of socio-economic indicators explaining inequalities in Healthy Life Years at age 50 in Europe: 2005 and 2010.

calculated using Sullivan’s method, applying the age-specific prevalence of activity limitation from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU- SILC) survey to life tables. Inequalities ...

Mapping the cause-specific premature mortality reveals large between-districts disparity in Belgium, 2003-2009

Expectancy Flanders Flemish Geographical Geographical-distribution health Health indicator HEALTH POLICIES HEALTH POLICY Heterogeneity Impact Income Income inequality Indicator inequalities inequality ...

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