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International Journal for Equity in Health

Ausgabe 1/2014

Inhalt (127 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Inequalities in out-of-pocket payments for health care services among elderly Germans – results of a population-based cross-sectional study

Jens-Oliver Bock, Herbert Matschinger, Hermann Brenner, Beate Wild, Walter E Haefeli, Renate Quinzler, Kai-Uwe Saum, Dirk Heider, Hans-Helmut König

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Community-based health care for indigenous women in Mexico: a qualitative evaluation

Blanca Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Myriam Ruiz, Sergio Meneses, Claudia Amaya, Margarita Márquez, Arianna Taboada, Katherine Careaga

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Cultural barriers to effective communication between Indigenous communities and health care providers in Northern Argentina: an anthropological contribution to Chagas disease prevention and control

Ana Dell’Arciprete, José Braunstein, Cecilia Touris, Graciela Dinardi, Ignacio Llovet, Sergio Sosa-Estani

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Socioeconomic inequalities in the non-use of dental care in Europe

Anastase Tchicaya, Nathalie Lorentz

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Inequities in access to health care in different health systems: a study in municipalities of central Colombia and north-eastern Brazil

Irene Garcia-Subirats, Ingrid Vargas, Amparo Susana Mogollón-Pérez, Pierre De Paepe, Maria Rejane Ferreira da Silva, Jean Pierre Unger, Carme Borrell, Maria Luisa Vázquez

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Personal and social determinants sustaining smoking practices in rural China: a qualitative study

Aimei Mao, Tingzhong Yang, Joan L Bottorff, Gayl Sarbit

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Egalitarianism and altruism in health: some evidence of their relationship

Ignacio Abásolo, Aki Tsuchiya

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Socioeconomic inequalities in smoking in low and mid income countries: positive gradients among women?

Jizzo R Bosdriesz, Selma Mehmedovic, Margot I Witvliet, Anton E Kunst

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Long-term survival among older patients with myocardial infarction differs by educational level: results from the MONICA/KORA myocardial infarction registry

Inge Kirchberger, Christa Meisinger, Hildegard Golüke, Margit Heier, Bernhard Kuch, Annette Peters, Philip A Quinones, Wolfgang von Scheidt, Andreas Mielck

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The effects of China’s urban basic medical insurance schemes on the equity of health service utilisation: evidence from Shaanxi Province

Zhongliang Zhou, Liang Zhu, Zhiying Zhou, Zhengya Li, Jianmin Gao, Gang Chen

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Mental health inequalities in Slovenian 15-year-old adolescents explained by personal social position and family socioeconomic status

Helena Jeriček Klanšček, Janina Žiberna, Aleš Korošec, Joca Zurc, Tit Albreht

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Health care seeking behaviour and utilisation in a multiple health insurance system: does insurance affiliation matter?

Eunice Nahyuha Chomi, Phares GM Mujinja, Ulrika Enemark, Kristian Hansen, Angwara Dennis Kiwara

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A community-based approach to indigent selection is difficult to organize in a formal neighbourhood in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: a mixed methods exploratory study

Valéry Ridde, Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane B Soura, Fiacre Bazié, Kadidiatou Kadio

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Quality improvements in diabetes care, how holistic have they been? A case-study from the United Kingdom

Emma Wilkinson, Gurch Randhawa, Maninder Singh

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Inequalities in public health care delivery in Zambia

Jane Phiri, John E Ataguba

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Gender and regional disparities of tuberculosis in Hunan, China

Mengshi Chen, Abuaku Benjamin Kwaku, Youfang Chen, Xin Huang, Hongzhuan Tan, Shi Wu Wen

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Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review

Corinne Grainger, Anna Gorter, Jerry Okal, Ben Bellows

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Inequalities in health status among rural residents: EQ-5D findings from household survey China

Haitao Li, Xiaolin Wei, Aixia Ma, Roger Y Chung

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Income related inequalities in New Cooperative Medical Scheme: a five-year empirical study of Junan County in China

Shasha Yuan, Clas Rehnberg, Xiaojie Sun, Xiaoyun Liu, Qingyue Meng

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Socioeconomic differences in self-rated health among women: a comparison of St. Petersburg to Estonia and Finland

Tatiana Dubikaytis, Tommi Härkänen, Elena Regushevskaya, Elina Hemminki, Elina Haavio-Mannila, Made Laanpere, Olga Kuznetsova, Seppo Koskinen

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Health inequalities and development plans in Iran; an analysis of the past three decades (1984–2010)

Hossein Zare, Antonio J Trujillo, Julia Driessen, Mojtaba Ghasemi, Gisselle Gallego

Open Access Editorial

European economic crisis and health inequities: research challenges in an uncertain scenario

Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Amaia Bacigalupe, Miguel San Sebastian

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Quality of uncomplicated malaria case management in Ghana among insured and uninsured patients

Ama P Fenny, Kristian S Hansen, Ulrika Enemark, Felix A Asante

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Equity in utilization of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected people in South Africa: a systematic review

Noor Tromp, Charlotte Michels, Evelinn Mikkelsen, Jan Hontelez, Rob Baltussen

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Multiple social disadvantage does it have an effect on amenable mortality: a brief report

Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Reijo Sund, Sakari Karvonen

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Community participation in formulating the post-2015 health and development goal agenda: reflections of a multi-country research collaboration

Claire E Brolan, Sameera Hussain, Eric A Friedman, Ana Lorena Ruano, Moses Mulumba, Itai Rusike, Claudia Beiersmann, Peter S Hill

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Exploring sex differences in drug use, health and service use characteristics among young urban crack users in Brazil

Neilane Bertoni, Chantal Burnett, Marcelo Santos Cruz, Tarcisio Andrade, Francisco I Bastos, Erotildes Leal, Benedikt Fischer

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Economic crisis, immigrant women and changing availability of intimate partner violence services: a qualitative study of professionals´ perceptions in Spain

Erica Briones-Vozmediano, Andres A Agudelo-Suarez, Isabel Goicolea, Carmen Vives-Cases

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Examining the potential contribution of social theory to developing and supporting Australian Indigenous-mainstream health service partnerships

Emma Haynes, Kate P Taylor, Angela Durey, Dawn Bessarab, Sandra C Thompson

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Factors associated with unhealthy behaviours and health outcomes: a cross-sectional study among tuscan adolescents (Italy)

Giacomo Lazzeri, Elena Azzolini, Andrea Pammolli, Rita Simi, Veronica Meoni, Mariano Vincenzo Giacchi

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Factors associated with healthcare avoidance among transgender women in Argentina

María Eugenia Socías, Brandon DL Marshall, Inès Arístegui, Marcela Romero, Pedro Cahn, Thomas Kerr, Omar Sued

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Perceptions and experiences of access to public healthcare by people with disabilities and older people in Uganda

Moses Mulumba, Juliana Nantaba, Claire E Brolan, Ana Lorena Ruano, Katie Brooker, Rachel Hammonds

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Social determinants of health in India: progress and inequities across states

Krycia Cowling, Rakhi Dandona, Lalit Dandona

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Facilitating health and wellbeing is "everybody's role": youth perspectives from Vanuatu on health and the post-2015 sustainable development goal agenda

Simon A Sheridan, Claire E Brolan, Lisa Fitzgerald, John Tasserei, Marie-France Maleb, Jean-Jacques Rory, Peter S Hill

Open Access Editorial

Health, equity and the post-2015 agenda: raising the voices of marginalized communities

Ana Lorena Ruano, Eric A Friedman, Peter S Hill

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Trends in and socio-demographic factors associated with caesarean section at a Tanzanian referral hospital, 2000 to 2013

Cecilie Nilsen, Truls Østbye, Anne Kjersti Daltveit, Blandina Theophil Mmbaga, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

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Cultural continuity, traditional Indigenous language, and diabetes in Alberta First Nations: a mixed methods study

Richard T Oster, Angela Grier, Rick Lightning, Maria J Mayan, Ellen L Toth

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Disparities experienced by Aboriginal compared to non-Aboriginal metropolitan Western Australians in receiving coronary angiography following acute ischaemic heart disease: the impact of age and comorbidities

Derrick Lopez, Judith M Katzenellenbogen, Frank M Sanfilippo, John A Woods, Michael S T Hobbs, Matthew W Knuiman, Tom G Briffa, Peter L Thompson, Sandra C Thompson

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Premature mortality due to social and material deprivation in Nova Scotia, Canada

Nathalie Saint-Jacques, Ron Dewar, Yunsong Cui, Louise Parker, Trevor JB Dummer

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Contemporary employment arrangements and mental well-being in men and women across Europe: a cross-sectional study

Deborah De Moortel, Hadewijch Vandenheede, Christophe Vanroelen

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Socioeconomic inequalities in mental well-being among Hungarian adolescents: a cross-sectional study

Szabolcs Varga, Bettina F Piko, Kevin M Fitzpatrick

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Income-related children’s health inequality and health achievement in China

Lu Chen, Ya Wu, Peter C Coyte

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A three-stage approach to measuring health inequalities and inequities

Yukiko Asada, Jeremiah Hurley, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Mira Johri

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Inequities in accessibility to and utilisation of maternal health services in Ghana after user-fee exemption: a descriptive study

John K Ganle, Michael Parker, Raymond Fitzpatrick, Easmon Otupiri

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Primary care priorities in addressing health equity: summary of the WONCA 2013 health equity workshop

Efrat Shadmi, William CW Wong, Karen Kinder, Iona Heath, Michael Kidd

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Malaria prevention measures in Burkina Faso: distribution and households expenditures

Fadima Yaya Bocoum, Danielle Belemsaga, Alex Adjagba, Damian Walker, Seni Kouanda, Halidou Tinto

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Who uses NHS Direct? Investigating the impact of ethnicity on the uptake of telephone based healthcare

Erica J Cook, Gurch Randhawa, Shirley Large, Andy Guppy, Angel M Chater, Dong Pang

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Social factors in childhood and risk of depressive symptoms among adolescents - a longitudinal study in Stockholm, Sweden

Therese Wirback, Jette Möller, Jan-Olov Larsson, Maria Rosaria Galanti, Karin Engström

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Horizontal equity in health care utilization in Brazil, 1998-2008

James Macinko, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa

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Sex differences in perceived risk and testing experience of HIV in an urban fishing setting in Ghana

Alfred E Yawson, Labi K Appiah, Anita O Yawson, George Bonsu, Simon Aluze-Ele, Nana AK Owusu Amanhyia, Margaret Lartey, Andrew A Adjei, Aaron L Lawson, Curt Beckwith, Awewura Kwara, Timothy Flanigan

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Socio-economic factors associated with maternal health-seeking behaviours among women from poor households in rural Egypt

Lenka Benova, Oona MR Campbell, Hania Sholkamy, George B Ploubidis

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Chronic conditions and medical expenditures among non-institutionalized adults in the United States

De-Chih Lee, Leiyu Shi, Geraldine Pierre, Jinsheng Zhu, Ruwei Hu

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Socioeconomic inequalities are still a barrier to full child vaccine coverage in the Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil

Fernando Luiz Cunha Castelo Branco, Thasciany Moraes Pereira, Breno Matos Delfino, Athos Muniz Braña, Humberto Oliart-Guzmán, Saulo Augusto Silva Mantovani, Antonio Camargo Martins, Cristieli Sérgio de Menezes Oliveira, Alanderson Alves Ramalho, Claudia Torres Codeço, Mônica da Silva-Nunes

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Trend in distribution of primary health care professionals in Jiangsu province of eastern China

Kang Xu, Kaijin Zhang, Dan Wang, Ling Zhou

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An intersectionality-based policy analysis framework: critical reflections on a methodology for advancing equity

Olena Hankivsky, Daniel Grace, Gemma Hunting, Melissa Giesbrecht, Alycia Fridkin, Sarah Rudrum, Olivier Ferlatte, Natalie Clark

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Using the unmet obstetric needs indicator to map inequities in life-saving obstetric interventions at the local health care system in Kenya

Elizabeth Echoka, Dominique Dubourg, Anselimo Makokha, Yeri Kombe, Øystein Evjen Olsen, Moses Mwangi, Bjorg Evjen-Olsen, Jens Byskov

Open Access Review

Gender, smoking and tobacco reduction and cessation: a scoping review

Joan L Bottorff, Rebecca Haines-Saah, Mary T Kelly, John L Oliffe, Iris Torchalla, Nancy Poole, Lorraine Greaves, Carole A Robinson, Mary HH Ensom, Chizimuzo TC Okoli, J Craig Phillips

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Cross-sector collaborations in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childhood disability: a systematic integrative review and theory-based synthesis

Anna Green, Michelle DiGiacomo, Tim Luckett, Penelope Abbott, Patricia Mary Davidson, Joanne Delaney, Patricia Delaney

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Road to better health and integration: a Delphi study on health service models for Hong Kong migrants

William CW Wong, Petula SY Ho, Jun Liang, Eleanor A Holroyd, Cindy LK Lam, Agnes MY Pau

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Duration of residence and psychotropic drug use in recently settled refugees in Sweden - a register-based study

Maria Brendler-Lindqvist, Marie Norredam, Anders Hjern

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Differences in health care utilisation between elderly from ethnic minorities and ethnic Dutch elderly

Ilona Verhagen, Wynand JG Ros, Bas Steunenberg, Wijnand Laan, Niek J de Wit

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Determining the impacts of hospital cost-sharing on the uninsured near-poor households in Vietnam

Duong Anh Vuong, Steffen Flessa, Paul Marschall, Son Thai Ha, Khue Ngoc Luong, Reinhard Busse

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Access to institutional delivery care and reasons for home delivery in three districts of Tanzania

Amon Exavery, Almamy Malick Kanté, Mustafa Njozi, Kassimu Tani, Henry V Doctor, Ahmed Hingora, James F Phillips

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Health-income inequality: the effects of the Icelandic economic collapse

Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, Dagný Ósk Ragnarsdóttir

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Economic crisis and suicidal behaviour: the role of unemployment, sex and age in Andalusia, Southern Spain

Juan Antonio Córdoba-Doña, Miguel San Sebastián, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Jesús Enrique Martínez-Faure, Per E Gustafsson

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Impact of pharmaceutical policy interventions on utilization of antipsychotic medicines in Finland and Portugal in times of economic recession: interrupted time series analyses

Christine Leopold, Fang Zhang, Aukje K Mantel-Teeuwisse, Sabine Vogler, Silvia Valkova, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Anita K Wagner

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Inequalities in multiple health outcomes by education, sex, and race in 93 US counties: Why we should measure them all

Yukiko Asada, Alyce Whipp, David Kindig, Beverly Billard, Barbara Rudolph

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Discordant indigenous and provider frames explain challenges in improving access to arthritis care: a qualitative study using constructivist grounded theory

Wilfreda E Thurston, Stephanie Coupal, C Allyson Jones, Lynden FJ Crowshoe, Deborah A Marshall, Joanne Homik, Cheryl Barnabe

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Barriers in access to healthcare services for chronic patients in times of austerity: an empirical approach in Greece

Ilias-Ioannis Kyriopoulos, Dimitris Zavras, Anastasis Skroumpelos, Katerina Mylona, Kostas Athanasakis, John Kyriopoulos

Open Access Commentary

The impact of economic crises on social inequalities in health: what do we know so far?

Amaia Bacigalupe, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar

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Age-period-cohort analysis on the cancer mortality in rural China: 1990–2010

Peigang Wang, Chunling Xu, Chuanhua Yu

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An explanatory analysis of economic and health inequality changes among Mexican indigenous people, 2000-2010

Edson Servan-Mori, Pilar Torres-Pereda, Emanuel Orozco, Sandra G Sosa-Rubí