Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support: addressing health inequalities at the individual level. Part I: the GP perspective

J Popay, U Kowarzik, S Mallinson… - … of Epidemiology & …, 2007 - jech.bmj.com
… they seek help to manage the social problems associated with health inequalities and to
consider, in particular, the role of general practice and primary care in these pathways. In Part I …

Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support: addressing health inequalities at the individual level. Part II: lay perspectives

J Popay, U Kowarzik, S Mallinson… - … of Epidemiology & …, 2007 - jech.bmj.com
… health dimension to primary care has lacked strategic direction in the UK. In particular, the
role of primary care in ameliorating the social causes of health inequalities has remained …

Why inequalities in health matter to primary care.

L Smeeth, I Heath - The British Journal of General Practice, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
inequalities? Here we present the opposite argument: there is an urgent need to tackle health
inequalities and primary caresocial inequalities in health are beyond the remit of primary

Are primary-care physician practices related to health behaviors likely to reduce social inequalities in health?

JL Thebault, V Ringa, G Bloy, I Pendola-Luchel… - Preventive …, 2017 - Elsevier
… Our results showed social inequalities disfavored those at the bottom of the social scale for
all but … Physicians' practices related to these health behaviors also appeared to be socially

Primary care, self‐rated health, and reductions in social disparities in health

L Shi, B Starfield, R Politzer… - Health services research, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… This may explain the lesser impact in this study (as compared with the others) of primary
care and income inequality on depression, as people with depression may have different …

Socioeconomic inequalities in primary-care and specialist physician visits: a systematic review

SL Lueckmann, J Hoebel, J Roick, J Markert… - International journal for …, 2021 - Springer
… This review aims to summarize the evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in consulting
primary-care and specialist physicians in the general adult population in high-income countries…

Primary care, social inequalities, and all-cause, heart disease, and cancer mortality in US counties, 1990

L Shi, J Macinko, B Starfield… - … journal of public …, 2005 - ajph.aphapublications.org
… income inequality as a proxy for social inequalities regardless of … underlying social inequalities
in order to test whether primary care … that suffer from income and other social inequalities. …

Primary care, social inequalities and all-cause, heart disease and cancer mortality in US counties: a comparison between urban and non-urban areas

L Shi, J Macinko, B Starfield, R Politzer, J Wulu, J Xu - Public health, 2005 - Elsevier
… We tested the effects of local-level primary care and social inequalities on a variety of
health outcomes. The first dependent variable was all-cause mortality. This is among the most …

Social inequalities in depression and suicidal ideation among older primary care patients

SE Gilman, ML Bruce, TT Have… - Social psychiatry and …, 2013 - Springer
… This study investigated social inequalities in depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation …
investigates social inequalities in late-life depression and suicidal ideation among primary care

Primary care doctors' understandings of and strategies to tackle health inequalities: a qualitative study

M Exworthy, V Morcillo - Primary Health Care Research & …, 2019 - cambridge.org
inequalities are being tackled by primary care doctors (General Practitioners; GPs), through
their understandings and actions in tackling those inequalities … of health inequalities in the …