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    Issue brief: supporting neighbourhood-based approaches to addressing poverty concentration and its impacts on health in Hamilton

    Dunn, J. R; Lavis, J. N.
    This issue brief was prepared in the context of great local concern about dramatic inequalities in health between neighbourhoods in Hamilton, which correspond closely with long-standing neighbourhood concentrations of poverty. There has been widespread awareness of the problem of concentrated poverty in ...
    Socioeconomic Factors, Poverty/economics, Residence Characteristics/statistics & numerical data, Canada
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    SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 10: taking equity into consideration when assessing the findings of a systematic review

    Lavis, J. N; Oxman, A. D; Fretheim, A; Lewin, S.
    This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article we address considerations of equity. Inequities can be defined as "differences in health which are not only unnecessar...
    Socioeconomic Factors, Systematic Reviews as Topic, Health Equity, Indicators (Statistics)
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