A alimentação adequada e saudável é um direito humano básico e para o seu cumprimento
requer programas e políticas públicas que incidam sobre a produção, a disponibilidade, a
distribuição e o acesso aos alimentos, visando à redução de iniquidades no consumo
alimentar. O guia alimentar para ...
Domene, Fernando Meirinho;
Silva, Jessica de Lucca da;
Milhomens, Lais de Moura;
Luquine Júnior, Cézar Donizetti;
Araújo, Bruna Carolina de;
Silva, Letícia Aparecida Lopes Bezerra da;
Melo, Roberta Crevelário de;
Bortoli, Maritsa Carla de;
Toma, Tereza Setsuko;
Barreto, Jorge Otávio Maia.
Esta revisão rápida foi comissionada e subsidiada pelo Ministério da Saúde, no âmbito do projeto GEREB-010-FIO-20 e faz parte da Coleção "Rapid response for health promotion".
Contexto: Conforme a Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal, as práticas de saúde bucal (SB) estão incorporadas em todos os...
Socio-economic status (SES) is (based on the
definition from BC Stats) a measure of the economic
and social status of an individual or group of
individuals based on education, income, occupation,
and other relevant indicators, relative to other
members of the population.(1) Given that it is an
indicator ...
At any age living in poverty and economic insecurity affects all aspects of an individual`s well-being, but there is a unique burden for seniors given that it is often combined with challenges associated with aging, such as multimorbidity, reduced mobility and independence, and loss of community and soci...
Refugees and asylum seekers are defined in many ways, but can be considered as those who did not make a voluntary choice to leave their country of origin and cannot return home in safety. Outcome data are limited and mostly focused on perinatal and mental health but do suggest significant levels of unmet...
A systematic search of scholarly and grey literature found 33 studies published in English between 2005 and 2015: 16 assessing the success of specific policies or interventions for labour migrants and 17 with best practice recommendations for policy-making. Documentation status, high socioeconomic status...
Undocumented migrants are people within a country without the necessary documents and permits. They are considered at higher risk for health problems because of their irregular status and the consequences of economic and social marginalization. A systematic review found 122 documents that suggested polic...
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
...
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...
Within the last decades, social exclusion, disparities, and absolute poverty – almost 3 billion people living on less than US $2.00 per day – have grown despite globalization and rising per-capita income in many developing nations. Income ratios of the richest 20% of the population to the poorest 20%...