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Index Social determinants of health in poverty

The social determinants of health in poverty describe the factors that affect impoverished populations' health and health inequality.[1]

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  1. 124 relations: African Americans, Ageing, Agency (philosophy), AmeriCorps Seniors, Birth control, Bolivia, Brazil, Cancer staging, Car dependency, Cardiovascular disease, Child development, China, Chronic condition, Colombia, Communism, Comorbidity, Conservatism, Coping, Crowding, Death, Diabetes, Diagnosis, Disease, Diseases of poverty, Economic inequality, Education, Employment, Environmental racism, Environmental racism in the United States, Ethnicity, Extreme poverty, Fascism, Food Justice Movement, Food security, Gender, Gender empowerment, Gender equality, Gender inequality, Geography, Ghetto, Global Health Promotion, Globalization, Goods, Habitability, Health, Health care, Health equity, Health insurance, Health policy, Health system, ... Expand index (74 more) »

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Ageing

Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older.

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Agency (philosophy)

Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.

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AmeriCorps Seniors

AmeriCorps Seniors is a United States government program run by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

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Birth control

Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Cancer staging

Cancer staging is the process of determining the extent to which a cancer has grown and spread.

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Car dependency

Car dependency refers to a phenomenon in urban planning wherein existing and planned infrastructure prioritizes the use of automobiles over other modes of transportation, such as public transit, bicycles, and walking.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.

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Child development

Child development involves the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chronic condition

A chronic condition (also known as chronic disease or chronic illness) is a health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Comorbidity

In medicine, comorbidity refers to the simultaneous presence of two or more medical conditions in a patient; often co-occurring (that is, concomitant or concurrent) with a primary condition.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

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Coping

Coping refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions.

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Crowding

Crowding (or visual crowding) is a perceptual phenomenon where the recognition of objects presented away from the fovea is impaired by the presence of other neighbouring objects (sometimes called "flankers").

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Death

Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

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Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.

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Diagnosis

Diagnosis (diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.

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Disease

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.

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Diseases of poverty

Diseases of poverty, also known as poverty-related diseases, are diseases that are more prevalent in low-income populations. Social determinants of health in poverty and diseases of poverty are health economics, poverty and social problems in medicine.

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Economic inequality

Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.

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Environmental racism

Environmental racism, ecological racism, or ecological apartheid is a form of racism leading to negative environmental outcomes such as landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal disproportionately impacting communities of color, violating substantive equality.

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Environmental racism in the United States

Environmental racism is a form of institutional racism, in which people of colour bear a disproportionate burden of environmental harms, such as pollution from hazardous waste disposal and the effects of natural disasters.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Extreme poverty

Extreme poverty is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Food Justice Movement

The Food Justice Movement is a grassroots initiative which emerged in response to food insecurity and economic pressures that prevent access to healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods.

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Food security

Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.

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Gender

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.

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Gender empowerment

Gender empowerment is the empowerment of people of any gender.

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Gender equality

Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations, and needs equally, regardless of gender.

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Gender inequality

Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender.

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Geography

Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.

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Global Health Promotion is a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal that covers health promotion and health education.

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Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Goods

In economics, goods are items that satisfy human wantsQuotation from Murray Milgate, 2008, "Goods and Commodities".

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Habitability

Habitability is the adequacy of an environment for human living.

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Health

Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Social determinants of health in poverty and health care are health economics.

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Health equity

Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige. Social determinants of health in poverty and health equity are determinants of health, health economics and social problems in medicine.

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Health insurance

Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses. Social determinants of health in poverty and Health insurance are health economics.

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Health policy

Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society". Social determinants of health in poverty and health policy are health economics.

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Health system

A health system, health care system or healthcare system is an organization of people, institutions, and resources that delivers health care services to meet the health needs of target populations. Social determinants of health in poverty and health system are health economics.

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Helen Abbey

Helen Abbey (September 1, 1915 – March 4, 2001) was an American biostatistician known for her research on the health effects of radiation and on infections among Native Americans, and for her prolific mentoring of students in statistics.

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.

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House

A house is a single-unit residential building.

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Household

A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling.

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Hunger

In politics, humanitarian aid, and the social sciences, hunger is defined as a condition in which a person does not have the physical or financial capability to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs for a sustained period. Social determinants of health in poverty and hunger are poverty.

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Income

Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.

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Income distribution

In economics, income distribution covers how a country's total GDP is distributed amongst its population.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Infant mortality

Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.

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Insecticide

Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects.

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Interpersonal ties

In social network analysis and mathematical sociology, interpersonal ties are defined as information-carrying connections between people.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jennifer D. Parker

Jennifer D. Parker is an American statistician who works as the Director of the Division of Research and Methodology at the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Johan Galtung

Johan Vincent Galtung (24 October 1930 – 17 February 2024) was a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies.

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Leisure

Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.

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Liberation theology

Liberation theology is a theological approach emphasizing the "liberation of the oppressed".

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Malnutrition

Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems.

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Maternal death

Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations.

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Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which are sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Some philosophers distinguish two types of rights, natural rights and legal rights.

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Nutrition

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. Social determinants of health in poverty and Nutrition are determinants of health.

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Nutrition transition

Nutrition transition is the shift in dietary consumption and energy expenditure that coincides with economic, demographic, and epidemiological changes.

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Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.

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Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of being.

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Oppression

Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium.

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Organization

An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.

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Outline of working time and conditions

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to working time and conditions.

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Pathogen transmission

In medicine, public health, and biology, transmission is the passing of a pathogen causing communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a particular individual or group, regardless of whether the other individual was previously infected.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Social determinants of health in poverty and Pollution are determinants of health.

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Poverty

Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Power (social and political)

In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors.

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Prenatal care

Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare.

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Preventive healthcare

Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.

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Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Social determinants of health in poverty and public health are health economics.

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Public service

A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community.

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Race and health

Race and health refers to how being identified with a specific race influences health. Social determinants of health in poverty and race and health are determinants of health.

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Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Sanitation

Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.

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School

A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.

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Seasonality

In time series data, seasonality refers to the trends that occur at specific regular intervals less than a year, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

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Shelter (building)

A shelter is an architectural structure or natural formation (or a combination of the two) providing protection from the local environment.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.

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Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power in society.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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The social determinants of health (SDOH) are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status. Social determinants of health in poverty and social determinants of health are determinants of health and social problems in medicine.

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Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.

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Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected.

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Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.

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The social safety net (SSN) consists of non-contributory assistance existing to improve lives of vulnerable families and individuals experiencing poverty and destitution.

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Socioeconomic status and mental health

Numerous studies around the world have found a relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health.

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Socioeconomics

Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Spirituality

The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.

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Structural violence

Structural violence is a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs or rights.

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Supersized

Supersized is the debut studio album of drum & bass DJ, producer and musician Danny Byrd.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Sympathy

Sympathy is the perception of, understanding of, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form.

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Therapy

A therapy or medical treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis.

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Transit desert

A transit desert is an area with limited transportation supply.

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Transport divide

Transport divide (also known as transport exclusion, transport disadvantage, transport deprivation, transportation divide, and mobility divide) refers to unequal access to transportation.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Unemployment

Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Ventilation (architecture)

Ventilation is the intentional introduction of outdoor air into a space.

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Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.

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Walkability

In urban planning, walkability is the accessibility of amenities by foot.

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Work (human activity)

Work or labour (or labor in American English) is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and wants of themselves, others, or a wider community.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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See also

Determinants of health

References

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