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Social needs, environmental factors and barriers to accessing health care that are unaddressed could lead to worse health outcomes for people with lower incomes. [42] [43] Additionally, residents of impoverished communities are at increased risk for mental illness, chronic disease, higher mortality, and lower life expectancy. [44]
Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. [1] This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illness, injury, developmental abnormalities, or death.
Pediatric environmental health is based on the recognition that children are not “little adults.” Infants and children have unique patterns of exposure and vulnerabilities. Environmental risks of infants and children are qualitatively and quantitatively different from those of adults. Pediatric environmental health is highly interdisciplinary.
Access to healthcare services is a critical determinant of health outcomes. Factors such as health insurance coverage, proximity to healthcare facilities, availability of primary care providers, and affordability of services significantly influence an individual’s ability to seek timely medical care, preventive services, and treatment for ...
Diseases attributed to environmental factors decrease with development to either eradication, or to levels comparable to developed regions. [34] Children are disproportionately affected by environmental hazards. WHO found that children under the age of five are more prone to diseases from environmental factors than the rest of the total population.
A health insurance policy is a insurance contract between an insurance provider (e.g. an insurance company or a government) and an individual or his/her sponsor (that is an employer or a community organization).
Moreover, The influence of regulatory pressures in lowering businesses' pollution emissions is enhanced by environmental compensation. This implies enhanced environmental performance results from the combination of successful self-regulation achieved through governance mechanisms and regulatory pressure.
– Book review. Although "the effects of reduced use of health services on health are at most small," an exception to this general finding "is that reduced use by poorer people did have a measurable and harmful effect on health." "RAND's Health Insurance Experiment (HIE)". August 25, 2008