Background: Heat is a significant cause of mortality, but impact patterns are heterogenous. Previous studies assessing such heterogeneity focused exclusively on risk rather than heat …
Decentralization is considered an important component of participatory democracy. However, despite its widespread implementation in the healthcare sector, its impact on …
Urban health inequities often reflect and follow the geographic patterns of inequality in the social, economic and environmental conditions within a city—the so-called determinants of …
PA Plank, LF Gomes, P Caldas, M Varela, DC Ferreira - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented global health crisis caused by COVID-19 is undoubtedly having a major impact on international tourism for two reasons. While the imposed travel restrictions have …
Promoting participation and combining evidence with expert knowledge in constructing composite indices that can be meaningfully interpreted are key open challenges identified in …
The study of premature deaths from causes that are generally preventable given the current availability of healthcare–called amenable deaths due to healthcare–provides information …
E Ignatenko, M Ribeiro, MD Oliveira - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the large amount of data generated by new technologies and information systems in the health arena, health dashboards have become increasingly popular as data …
Social, economic, and environmental differences across the European Union significantly affect opportunities to move forward in achieving greater equity in health. Cohesion Policy …
E Roorda, M Bruijnzeels, J Struijs, M Spruit - JAMIA open, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objective Population health management (PHM) is a promising data-driven approach to address the challenges faced by health care systems worldwide. Although Business …