HLTB41H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter pg 20-33: Cohort Study, Birth Weight, Uch
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Policy pointers on determinants of inequities in health. The following is advice for researchers and policy-makers. More research is urgently needed to deepen the understanding of the precise: mechanisms by which determinants of health generate inequities in health. Special attention should be given to the extent to which social differences in: living standards are linked to psychosocial determinants of health, which in turn via, for example, chronic stress cause diseases and health problems. A high priority should be given to research that focuses on synergetic effects of: different risk factors in particular, among low-income groups. Longitudinal cohort studies make it possible to analyse determinants of social inequities in health in a life-course perspective. Information on the main determinants of social inequities in health should: be actively and widely distributed in a language that is easily understood by people without a professional background in epidemiology or public health.
