Key conclusion 6: The programme's effect on equitable access to health services was mixed.
It is from this holistic perspective of social relations that we can work to effect fair, equitable, and protective environments as they relate to global medicine and public health.
The study examines the relationships between local pricing system of forest products and its effects on equitable benefit sharing and livelihood improvement of user households who are living in and around the forests.
The principal GHIN themes include the effects of GHIs on human resources for health (HRH), on other priority services, on the capacity of countries to coordinate GHIs alongside traditional aid mechanisms, and effects on equitable access to services.
Therefore, in our discussion Global Health Justice is, or consists in, guaranteeing a certain minimum level of health opportunities to all individuals globally and ensuring an inter- and intra-country equitable sharing of the burden to that effect.
An emerging approach called equitable development emphasizes the positive effect of mixed-income communities, and helps residents to have a voice in decision-making and to acquire the skills and resources needed to stay anchored in their neighborhoods.
Although inflammation, reverse cholesterol transport, and oxidative stress are known to exacerbate disease outcomes for AMD and CVD, the genetic architecture that underpins the risk attributable to these processes has not consistently shown equitable size and direction of effect for both disease states, suggesting that while common processes are involved the underlying mechanistic detail differs.
Critics maintain that congestion pricing is not equitable, places an economic burden on neighboring communities, has a negative effect on retail businesses and on economic activity in general, and represents another tax levy.
Without effective and equitable international action, we will be unable to protect future generations from the long-term adverse health effects of a changing climate.
Whatever our politicians may say about the importance of "evidence-based policy-making", of putting science at the heart of efforts to build a more sustainable, equitable world, their silence is in effect a betrayal of science.
