Ausgabe 1/2018
Inhalt (187 Artikel)
Social health insurance contributes to universal coverage in South Africa, but generates inequities: survey among members of a government employee insurance scheme
Jane Goudge, Olufunke A. Alaba, Veloshnee Govender, Bronwyn Harris, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Matthew F. Chersich
Socioeconomic status can affect pregnancy outcomes and complications, even with a universal healthcare system
Min Kyoung Kim, Seung Mi Lee, Sung-Hee Bae, Hyun Joo Kim, Nam Gu Lim, Seok-Jun Yoon, Jin Yong Lee, Min-Woo Jo
Inequality of obstetric and gynaecological workforce distribution in China
Zhenghong Ren, Peige Song, Xinlei Chang, Jiawen Wang, Lin An
The impact of rural residence and HIV infection on poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes in a large urban hospital: a retrospective cohort analysis
Aishatu Lawal Adamu, Muktar H. Aliyu, Najiba Aliyu Galadanci, Baba Maiyaki Musa, Umar Muhammad Lawan, Usman Bashir, Ibrahim Abubakar
Street-level workers’ inadequate knowledge and application of exemption policies in Burkina Faso jeopardize the achievement of universal health coverage: evidence from a cross-sectional survey
Valéry Ridde, Gerald Leppert, Hervé Hien, Paul Jacob Robyn, Manuela De Allegri
Health care access for rural youth on equal terms? A mixed methods study protocol in northern Sweden
Isabel Goicolea, Dean Carson, Miguel San Sebastian, Monica Christianson, Maria Wiklund, Anna-Karin Hurtig
Measuring spatial accessibility to healthcare services with constraint of administrative boundary: a case study of Yanqing District, Beijing, China
Zhuolin Tao, Yang Cheng, Qingjing Zheng, Guicai Li
Interventions for preventing or treating malnutrition in homeless problem-drinkers: a systematic review
Sharea Ijaz, Helen Thorley, Katie Porter, Clare Fleming, Tim Jones, Joanna Kesten, Loubaba Mamluk, Alison Richards, Elsa M. R. Marques, Jelena Savović
From denial to awareness: a conceptual model for obtaining equity in healthcare
Anna T. Höglund, Marianne Carlsson, Inger K. Holmström, Linda Lännerström, Elenor Kaminsky
A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 131 countries: which configuration of the structural conditions can explain health better?
Toktam Paykani, Hassan Rafiey, Homeira Sajjadi
Use of health services according to income before and after elimination of copayment in Germany and restriction of universal health coverage in Spain
Lourdes Lostao, Siegfried Geyer, Romana Albaladejo, Almudena Moreno-Lostao, Elena Ronda, Enrique Regidor
What is known about pathways to mental health care for Australian Aboriginal young people?: a narrative review
Alexandra Kilian, Anna Williamson
Barriers and facilitators to implementation, uptake and sustainability of community-based health insurance schemes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Racha Fadlallah, Fadi El-Jardali, Nour Hemadi, Rami Z. Morsi, Clara Abou Abou Samra, Ali Ahmad, Khurram Arif, Lama Hishi, Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar, Elie A. Akl
Who benefits from increased service utilisation? Examining the distributional effects of payment for performance in Tanzania
Peter Binyaruka, Bjarne Robberstad, Gaute Torsvik, Josephine Borghi
Measuring social exclusion in healthcare settings: a scoping review
Patrick O’Donnell, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Khalifa Elmusharaf
The impact of nursing students on the health-related quality of life and perceived social support of a rural population in Ecuador: effects of a service-based learning course
Rebecca L. Walcott, Angela M. Murcia, Gloria M. Berry, Christian F. Juna, María Isabel Roldós, Phaedra S. Corso
Social health insurance, healthcare utilization, and costs in middle-aged and elderly community-dwelling adults in China
Zhonghua Wang, Xiangjun Li, Mingsheng Chen, Lei Si
Health status and air pollution related socioeconomic concerns in urban China
Kaishan Jiao, Mengjia Xu, Meng Liu
Participants’ perceptions of interactions with community health workers who promote behavior change: a qualitative characterization from participants with normal, depressive and anxious mood states
Joseph Perales, Belinda M. Reininger, MinJae Lee, Stephen H. Linder
Geographic variation in health insurance benefits in Qianjiang District, China: a cross-sectional study
Yue Wu, Liang Zhang, Xuejiao Liu, Ting Ye, Yongfei Wang
Addressing female genital mutilation in Europe: a scoping review of approaches to participation, prevention, protection, and provision of services
Helen Baillot, Nina Murray, Elaine Connelly, Natasha Howard
Effect of socioeconomic inequalities on cholecystectomy outcomes: a 10-year population-based analysis
Ping Lu, Nan-Ping Yang, Nien-Tzu Chang, K. Robert Lai, Kai-Biao Lin, Chien-Lung Chan
Cumulative incidence, distribution, and determinants of catastrophic health expenditure in Nepal: results from the living standards survey
Mamata Ghimire, Rakesh Ayer, Masahide Kondo
The gendered experience with respect to health-seeking behaviour in an urban slum of Kolkata, India
Moumita Das, Federica Angeli, Anja J. S. M. Krumeich, Onno C. P. van Schayck
Considering mean and inequality health outcomes together: the population health performance index
David Kindig, Nicholas Lardinois, Yukiko Asada, John Mullahy
Multiple forms of discrimination and relationships with health and wellbeing: findings from national cross-sectional surveys in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Donna Cormack, James Stanley, Ricci Harris
Inequity in dialysis related practices and outcomes in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a Kaupapa Māori analysis
Tania Huria, Suetonia Palmer, Lutz Beckert, Jonathan Williman, Suzanne Pitama
Factors associated with multiple barriers to access to primary care: an international analysis
L. Corscadden, J. F. Levesque, V. Lewis, E. Strumpf, M. Breton, G. Russell
Unequal distribution of health human resource in mainland China: what are the determinants from a comprehensive perspective?
Dan Li, Zhongliang Zhou, Yafei Si, Yongjian Xu, Chi Shen, Yiyang Wang, Xiao Wang
Evaluation of public subsidy for medical travel: does it protect against household impoverishment?
Mariyam Suzana, Helen Walls, Richard Smith, Johanna Hanefeld
Income inequality and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a highly unequal country: a fixed-effects analysis from South Africa
Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Ichiro Kawachi, S. V. Subramanian, Mauricio Avendano
Household income, income inequality, and health-related quality of life measured by the EQ-5D in Shaanxi, China: a cross-sectional study
Zhijun Tan, Fuyan Shi, Haiyue Zhang, Ning Li, Yongyong Xu, Ying Liang
Racial and cultural minority experiences and perceptions of health care provision in a mid-western region
Stephane M. Shepherd, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, Yin Paradies, Diane Sivasubramaniam, Juanita Sherwood, Teresa Brockie
How gender theories are used in contemporary public health research
Anne Hammarström, Gunnel Hensing
Correction to: Social and environmental determinants of child health in Mongolia across years of rapid economic growth: 2000–2010
Nehal Joshi, Bolormaa Bolorhon, Indermohan Narula, Shihua Zhu, Semira Manaseki-Holland
Measurement and analysis of equity in health: a case study conducted in Zhejiang Province, China
Xueshan Sun, Hao Zhang, Xiaoqian Hu, Shuyan Gu, Xuemei Zhen, Yuxuan Gu, Minzhuo Huang, Jingming Wei, Hengjin Dong
Barriers for conducting clinical trials in developing countries- a systematic review
Chalachew Alemayehu, Geoffrey Mitchell, Jane Nikles
Detecting spatio-temporal mortality clusters of European countries by sex and age
Patricia Carracedo, Ana Debón, Adina Iftimi, Francisco Montes
A systematic review of health status, health seeking behaviour and healthcare utilisation of low socioeconomic status populations in urban Singapore
Catherine Qiu Hua Chan, Kheng Hock Lee, Lian Leng Low
Geographical heterogeneity and inequality of access to improved drinking water supply and sanitation in Nepal
Wen-Jun He, Ying-Si Lai, Biraj M. Karmacharya, Bo-Feng Dai, Yuan-Tao Hao, Dong Roman Xu
A qualitative study into the perceived barriers of accessing healthcare among a vulnerable population involved with a community centre in Romania
Siân George, Katy Daniels, Evridiki Fioratou
A better start for health equity? Qualitative content analysis of implementation of extended postnatal home visiting in a disadvantaged area in Sweden
Madelene Barboza, Asli Kulane, Bo Burström, Anneli Marttila
Equity of access to maternal health interventions in Brazil and Colombia: a retrospective study
Amaila De La Torre, Zlatko Nikoloski, Elias Mossialos
Prevalence and intensity of catastrophic health care expenditures in Iran from 2008 to 2015: a study on Iranian household income and expenditure survey
Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Mina Bahrampour, Arash Rashidian, Ali-Akbar Haghdoost, Mohammadreza Akbari Javar, Mohammad Hossein Mehrolhassani
Inequalities in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its risk factors in Sri Lanka: a lower middle income country
Ambepitiyawaduge Pubudu De Silva, Sudirikku Hennadige Padmal De Silva, Rashan Haniffa, Isurujith Kongala Liyanage, Saroj Jayasinghe, Prasad Katulanda, Chandrika Neelakanthi Wijeratne, Sumedha Wijeratne, Lalini Chandika Rajapaksa
Doing battle with “the monster”: How high-risk heterosexuals experience and successfully manage HIV stigma as a barrier to HIV testing
Marya Gwadz, Noelle R. Leonard, Sylvie Honig, Robert Freeman, Alexandra Kutnick, Amanda S. Ritchie
A comparative study of unintentional injuries among schooling left-behind, migrant and residential children in China
Hongwei Hu, Jiamin Gao, Haochen Jiang, Pingnan Xing
Critical considerations for the practical utility of health equity tools: a concept mapping study
Bernadette Pauly, Wanda Martin, Kathleen Perkin, Thea van Roode, Albert Kwan, Tobie Patterson, Samantha Tong, Cheryl Prescott, Bruce Wallace, Trevor Hancock, Marjorie MacDonald
Determinants of National Health Insurance enrolment in Ghana across the life course: Are the results consistent between surveys?
Nele van der Wielen, Jane Falkingham, Andrew Amos Channon
Use of family planning and child health services in the private sector: an equity analysis of 12 DHS surveys
Nirali M. Chakraborty, Andrea Sprockett
Equity in patient experiences of primary care in community health centers using primary care assessment tool: a comparison of rural-to-urban migrants and urban locals in Guangdong, China
Chenwen Zhong, Li Kuang, Lina Li, Yuan Liang, Jie Mei, Li Li
Inequalities in health and health risk factors in the Southern African Development Community: evidence from World Health Surveys
Stella M. Umuhoza, John E. Ataguba
Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and impoverishment in tropical deltas: evidence from the Mekong Delta region
Sayem Ahmed, Sylvia Szabo, Kristine Nilsen
Study on the equity of medical services utilization for elderly enrolled in different basic social medical insurance systems in an underdeveloped city of Southwest China
Rao Chen, Ning-xiu Li, Xiang Liu
Challenges for the surgical capacity building of township hospitals among the Central China: a retrospective study
Zhong Li, Jian Yang, Yue Wu, Zijin Pan, Xiaoqun He, Boyang Li, Liang Zhang
Disparities in cervical screening participation: a comparison of Russian, Somali and Kurdish immigrants with the general Finnish population
Esther E. Idehen, Päivikki Koponen, Tommi Härkänen, Mari Kangasniemi, Anna-Maija Pietilä, Tellervo Korhonen
Decomposing health inequality with population-based surveys: a case study in Rwanda
Kai Liu, Chunling Lu
Inequities and their determinants in coverage of maternal health services in Burkina Faso
Takondwa Mwase, Stephan Brenner, Jacob Mazalale, Julia Lohmann, Saidou Hamadou, Serge M. A. Somda, Valery Ridde, Manuela De Allegri
Health inequalities between employed and unemployed in northern Sweden: a decomposition analysis of social determinants for mental health
Anna Brydsten, Anne Hammarström, Miguel San Sebastian
The impact of telephone follow up on adverse events for Aboriginal people with chronic disease in new South Wales, Australia: a retrospective cohort study
Amanda Jayakody, Erin Passmore, Christopher Oldmeadow, Jamie Bryant, Mariko Carey, Eunice Simons, Aaron Cashmore, Louise Maher, Kiel Hennessey, Jacinta Bunfield, Maurice Terare, Andrew Milat, Rob Sanson-Fisher
Estimating benefit equity of government health subsidy in healthcare Services in Shandong Province, China: a cross-sectional study
Wenzhe Qin, Lingzhong Xu, Jiajia Li, Long Sun, Gan Ding, Hui Shao, Ningze Xu
Exploring HIV risks, testing and prevention among sub-Saharan African community members in Australia
Amy B. Mullens, Jennifer Kelly, Joseph Debattista, Tania M. Phillips, Zhihong Gu, Fungisai Siggins
Inequity in the utilization of antenatal and delivery care in Yangon region, Myanmar: a cross-sectional study
Aye Nyein Moe Myint, Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, Thein Thein Htay, Myint Myint Wai, Johanne Sundby, Espen Bjertness
Geographic health inequalities in Norway: a Gini analysis of cross-county differences in mortality from 1980 to 2014
Eirin K. Skaftun, Stéphane Verguet, Ole F. Norheim, Kjell A. Johansson
Assessing the community-level impact of a decade of user fee policy shifts on health facility deliveries in Kenya, 2003-2014
Francis Obare, Timothy Abuya, Dennis Matanda, Ben Bellows
Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in”
Marta Schaaf, Jonathan Fox, Stephanie M. Topp, Caitlin Warthin, Lynn P. Freedman, Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Kerry Scott, Thoko Maboe, Margareth Zanchetta, Ana Lorena Ruano, Maryse Kok, Svea Closser
“We are everything to everyone”: a systematic review of factors influencing the accountability relationships of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers (AHWs) in the Australian health system
Stephanie M. Topp, Alexandra Edelman, Sean Taylor
Barriers to HIV testing among male clients of female sex workers in Indonesia
Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Anastasia Suci Sukmawati, Pius Almindu Leki Berek, Ernawati, Elisabeth Kristanti, Sri Sunaringsih Ika Wardojo, Isaias Budi Cahaya, Lillian Mwanri
Measuring financial protection against catastrophic health expenditures: methodological challenges for global monitoring
Justine Hsu, Gabriela Flores, David Evans, Anne Mills, Kara Hanson
“Poverty is the big thing”: exploring financial, transportation, and opportunity costs associated with fistula management and repair in Nigeria and Uganda
Kaji Tamanna Keya, Pooja Sripad, Emmanuel Nwala, Charlotte E. Warren
Do free caesarean section policies increase inequalities in Benin and Mali?
Marion Ravit, Martine Audibert, Valéry Ridde, Myriam De Loenzien, Clémence Schantz, Alexandre Dumont
Determinants of inequalities in the quality of Brazilian diet: trends in 12-year population-based study (2003–2015)
Aline Veroneze de Mello, Flávia Mori Sarti, Jaqueline Lopes Pereira, Moisés Goldbaum, Chester Luiz Galvão Cesar, Maria Cecilia Goi Porto Alves, Regina Mara Fisberg
Understanding the complex relationships among actors involved in the implementation of public-private mix (PPM) for TB control in India, using social theory
Solomon Salve, Kristine Harris, Kabir Sheikh, John D. H. Porter
The health system accountability impact of prison health committees in Zambia
Stephanie M. Topp, Anjali Sharma, Chisela Chileshe, George Magwende, German Henostroza, Clement N. Moonga
Perceived barriers to methadone maintenance treatment among Iranian opioid users
Maryam Khazaee-Pool, Maryam Moeeni, Koen Ponnet, Arezoo Fallahi, Leila Jahangiri, Tahereh Pashaei
Improving pathways to primary health care among LGBTQ populations and health care providers: key findings from Nova Scotia, Canada
Jacqueline Gahagan, Montse Subirana-Malaret
Socio-demographic and economics factors associated with suicide mortality in Iran, 2001–2010: application of a decomposition model
Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Hossein Shahnavazi, Hamid Bouraghi, Aliasghar A. Kiadaliri
Context matters for primary health care access: a multi-method comparative study of contextual influences on health service access arrangements across models of primary health care
Bernadette Ward, Riki Lane, Julie McDonald, Gawaine Powell-Davies, Jeff Fuller, Sarah Dennis, Rachael Kearns, Grant Russell
A population-based study of the influence of socioeconomic status on prostate cancer diagnosis in Taiwan
Chi-Chen Wu, Ching-Heng Lin, Han-Sun Chiang, Ming-Je Tang
Impact of parental migration on psychosocial well-being of children left behind: a qualitative study in rural China
Chenyue Zhao, Feng Wang, Xudong Zhou, Minmin Jiang, Therese Hesketh
Why do some physicians choose to tackle inequities in healthcare?
Victoria Nkunu, Kevin J. McLaughlin
Comparing the income-related inequity of tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence of hypertension in China
Min Su, Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Chi Shen, Wanyue Dong, Xiaojing Fan, Xiao Wang, Xiaolin Wei
Examining intersectional inequalities in access to health (enabling) resources in disadvantaged communities in Scotland: advancing the participatory paradigm
Anuj Kapilashrami, Sara Marsden
Perceptions and experiences related to health and health inequality among rural communities in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: a rapid qualitative assessment
Nicole Bergen, Abebe Mamo, Shifera Asfaw, Lakew Abebe, Jaameeta Kurji, Getachew Kiros, Muluemebet Abera, Gebeyehu Bulcha Duguma, Kunuz Haji Bedru, Manisha A. Kulkarni, Ronald Labonté, Sudhakar Morankar
Examining equity in health insurance coverage: an analysis of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
Fidelia A. A. Dake
Is healthcare really equal for all? Assessing the horizontal and vertical equity in healthcare utilisation among older Ghanaians
Vincent Dei, Miguel San Sebastian
Rural-urban disparity in category II vaccination among children under five years of age: evidence from a survey in Shandong, China
Xinyi Zhang, Zerin Imam Syeda, Zhengyue Jing, Qiongqiong Xu, Long Sun, Lingzhong Xu, Chengchao Zhou
Making free public healthcare attractive: optimizing health equity funds in Cambodia
Bart Jacobs, Ashish Bajracharya, Jyotirmoy Saha, Chhorvann Chhea, Ben Bellows, Steffen Flessa, Adelio Fernandes Antunes
Improving the performance of social health insurance system through increasing outpatient expenditure reimbursement ratio: a quasi-experimental evaluation study from rural China
Yudong Miao, Jianqin Gu, Liang Zhang, Ruibo He, Sandeep Sandeep, Jian Wu
Income inequalities in multimorbidity prevalence in Ontario, Canada: a decomposition analysis of linked survey and health administrative data
Luke Mondor, Deborah Cohen, Anum Irfan Khan, Walter P. Wodchis
Caring for pregnant refugee women in a turbulent policy landscape: perspectives of health care professionals in Calgary, Alberta
Anika Winn, Erin Hetherington, Suzanne Tough
Introduction of safety and quality standards for private health care providers: a case-study from the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Severin Rakic, Budimka Novakovic, Sinisa Stevic, Jelena Niskanovic
Contracting-out urban primary health care in Bangladesh: a qualitative exploration of implementation processes and experience
Rubana Islam, Shahed Hossain, Farzana Bashar, Shaan Muberra Khan, Adel A. S. Sikder, Sifat Shahana Yusuf, Alayne M. Adams
Improving health equity: changes in self-assessed health across income groups in China
Yuqi Zhou, Xi Yao, Weiyan Jian
Effect of an organised screening program on socioeconomic inequalities in mammography practice, knowledge and attitudes
A. Relecom, B. Arzel, T. Perneger
Socioeconomic disparities in abdominal obesity over the life course in China
Panpan Zhao, Xiaoli Gu, Dongfu Qian, Fan Yang
Towards universal health coverage: a mixed-method study mapping the development of the faith-based non-profit sector in the Ghanaian health system
Annabel Grieve, Jill Olivier
Setting the agenda for nurse leadership in India: what is missing
Joe Varghese, Anneline Blankenhorn, Prasanna Saligram, John Porter, Kabir Sheikh
Socioeconomic inequality in self-reported unmet need for oral health services in adults aged 50 years and over in China, Ghana, and India
Alexander Kailembo, Raman Preet, Jennifer Stewart Williams
Accountability mechanisms for implementing a health financing option: the case of the basic health care provision fund (BHCPF) in Nigeria
Benjamin Uzochukwu, Emmanuel Onwujekwe, Chinyere Mbachu, Chinyere Okeke, Sassy Molyneux, Lucy Gilson
Decomposition of gendered income-related inequalities in multiple biological cardiovascular risk factors in a middle-aged population
Paola A. Mosquera, Miguel San Sebastian, Anneli Ivarsson, Per E. Gustafsson
Widening inequalities in multimorbidity? Time trends among the working population between 2005 and 2015 based on German health insurance data
Juliane Tetzlaff, Jelena Epping, Stefanie Sperlich, Sveja Eberhard, Jona Theodor Stahmeyer, Siegfried Geyer
Actions of primary health care professionals to reduce maternal mortality in the Brazilian Northeast
Katia M. S. Figueiredo, Gleice A. A. Gonçalves, Hermes M. T. Batista, Marco Akerman, Woneska R. Pinheiro, Vânia B. Nascimento
The relationship between urbanization and depression in China: the mediating role of neighborhood social capital
Ruoyu Wang, Desheng Xue, Ye Liu, Hongsheng Chen, Yingzhi Qiu
Prevalence and associated factors of underweight among children 6–59 months of age in Takusa district, Northwest Ethiopia
Getnet Nigatu, Solomon Assefa Woreta, Temesgen Yihunie Akalu, Melaku Kindie Yenit
Emergence of three general practitioner contracting-in models in South Africa: a qualitative multi-case study
Linda Mureithi, James Michael Burnett, Adam Bertscher, René English
Inter-provincial inequality of public health services in China: the perspective of local officials’ behavior
Tianxiang Chen, Ying Wang, Xiaoyi Luo, Yuxuan Rao, Lei Hua
The unintended consequences of combining equity measures with performance-based financing in Burkina Faso
Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Manuela De Allegri, Idriss Ali Gali-Gali, Valéry Ridde
Unsafe and unequal: a decomposition analysis of income inequalities in fear of crime in northern Sweden
Beáta Vivien Boldis, Miguel San Sebastián, Per E. Gustafsson
Patterns of Medicare-funded primary health and specialist consultations in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians in the two years before hospitalisation for ischaemic heart disease
Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Judith M. Katzenellenbogen, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Anthony S. Gunnell, Matthew Knuiman, Frank M. Sanfilippo, Joseph Hung, Qun Mai, Alistair Vickery, Sandra C. Thompson
Private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of co-existence, segmentation and conflict
Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, Justin C. Yang, Stefanie Ettelt, Inna Thalmann, Valeska Seguel Ravest, Carol Brayne
The effect of socioeconomic position in the experience of disability among people with mental disorders: findings from the World Mental Health Survey Initiative Portugal
Ana Antunes, Diana Frasquilho, Sofia Azeredo-Lopes, Manuela Silva, Graça Cardoso, José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida
Social disparities in patient safety in primary care: a systematic review
Carlotta Piccardi, Jens Detollenaere, Pierre Vanden Bussche, Sara Willems
Place of residence & financial hardship: the situation of people with spinal cord injury
Diana Pacheco Barzallo
Community involvement in design, implementation and evaluation of nutrition interventions to reduce chronic diseases in indigenous populations in the U.S.: a systematic review
Jinan Banna, Andrea Bersamin
Punching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
Fran Baum, Jennie Popay, Toni Delany-Crowe, Toby Freeman, Connie Musolino, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet, Vinya Ariyaratne, Kedar Baral, Paulin Basinga, Mary Bassett, David M. Bishai, Mickey Chopra, Sharon Friel, Elsa Giugliani, Hideki Hashimoto, James Macinko, Martin McKee, Huong Thanh Nguyen, Nikki Schaay, Orielle Solar, Sundararaman Thiagarajan, David Sanders
Contracting-out primary health care services in Tanzania towards UHC: how policy processes and context influence policy design and implementation
Stephen Maluka, Dereck Chitama, Esther Dungumaro, Crecensia Masawe, Krishna Rao, Zubin Shroff
Socioeconomic inequalities in newborn care during facility and home deliveries: a cross sectional analysis of data from demographic surveillance sites in rural Bangladesh, India and Nepal
Erik de Jonge, Kishwar Azad, Munir Hossen, Abdul Kuddus, Dharma S. Manandhar, Ellen van de Poel, Swati Sarbani Roy, Naomi Saville, Aman Sen, Catherine Sikorski, Prasanta Tripathy, Anthony Costello, Tanja A. J. Houweling
The health needs and access barriers among refugees and asylum-seekers in Malaysia: a qualitative study
Fiona Leh Hoon Chuah, Sok Teng Tan, Jason Yeo, Helena Legido-Quigley
Time spent on work-related activities, social activities and time pressure as intermediary determinants of health disparities among elderly women and men in 5 European countries: a structural equation model
Nicholas Kofi Adjei, Kenisha Russell Jonsson, Tilman Brand
Differential achievements in childhood immunization across geographical regions of Pakistan: analysis of wealth-related inequality
Owais Raza, Fahad Saqib Lodhi, Esmaeil Khedmati Morasae, Reza Majdzadeh
Market-orienting reforms in rural health care in Sweden: how can equity in access be preserved?
Linn Kullberg, Paula Blomqvist, Ulrika Winblad
What have the social sciences ever done for equity in health policy and health systems?
Trisha Greenhalgh
Can community action improve equity for maternal health and how does it do so? Research findings from Gujarat, India
Asha S. George, Diwakar Mohan, Jaya Gupta, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Subhasri Balakrishnan, Rajani Ved, Renu Khanna
Are we entering a new era for qualitative research? Using qualitative evidence to support guidance and guideline development by the World Health Organization
Simon Lewin, Claire Glenton
Contracting non-state providers for universal health coverage: learnings from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe
Krishna D. Rao, Ligia Paina, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire, Zubin C. Shroff
Factors influencing performance by contracted non-state providers implementing a basic package of health services in Afghanistan
Ahmad Shah Salehi, Abdul Tawab Kawa Saljuqi, Nadia Akseer, Krishna Rao, Kathryn Coe
Associations of acute conflict with equity in maternal healthcare: an uncontrolled before-and-after analysis of Egypt demographic and health survey data
Saji Saraswathy Gopalan, Richard Silverwood, Natasha Howard
Government resource contributions to the private-not-for-profit sector in Uganda: evolution, adaptations and implications for universal health coverage
Aloysius Ssennyonjo, Justine Namakula, Ronald Kasyaba, Sam Orach, Sara Bennett, Freddie Ssengooba
Gendered norms of responsibility: reflections on accountability politics in maternal health care in Malawi
Elsbet Lodenstein, Kyra Pedersen, Kondwani Botha, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse, Marjolein Dieleman
Social vulnerability and its possible relation to the principal causes of morbidity and mortality in the Mexican state of Oaxaca
Ana María González-Villoria, Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga
Correction to: Inter-provincial inequality of public health services in China: the perspective of local officials’ behavior
Tianxiang Chen, Ying Wang, Xiaoyi Luo, Yuxuan Rao, Lei Hua
Beyond the template: the needs of tribal women and their experiences with maternity services in Odisha, India
Sana Q. Contractor, Abhijit Das, Jashodhara Dasgupta, Sara Van Belle
Moving towards universal health coverage: engaging non-state providers
Zubin Cyrus Shroff, Krishna Dipankar Rao, Sara Bennett, Ligia Paina, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire, Abdul Ghaffar
Towards a global monitoring system for implementing the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health: developing a core set of indicators for government action on the social determinants of health to improve health equity
Aluisio Barros, Abdesslam Boutayeb, Christine Brown, Hazel D. Dean, Erica Di Ruggiero, Rita M. Ferrelli, Patricia Frenz, John Glover, Mana Herel, James Humuza, Doris Kirigia, Patricia O’Campo, Frank Pega, Srinath Reddy, Agata Stankiewicz, Tone Torgesen, Nicole B. Valentine, Eugenio Villar
The distribution of benefits under China’s new rural cooperative medical system: evidence from western rural China
Sha Lai, Chi Shen, Yongjian Xu, Xiaowei Yang, Yafei Si, Jianmin Gao, Zhongliang Zhou, Gang Chen
An evaluation of health systems equity in Indonesia: study protocol
Virginia Wiseman, Hasbullah Thabrany, Augustine Asante, Manon Haemmerli, Soewarta Kosen, Lucy Gilson, Anne Mills, Andrew Hayen, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol
Emerging themes in food security: environmental justice, extended families and the multiple roles of grandmothers
Ethel Alderete, Lauren Sonderegger, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable
Equity and efficiency of primary health care resource allocation in mainland China
Yue Zhang, Qian Wang, Tian Jiang, Jian Wang
Performance management in times of change: experiences of implementing a performance assessment system in a district in South Africa
Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Jane Goudge, Lucy Gilson, John Eyles
Socialization, legitimation and the transfer of biomedical knowledge to low- and middle-income countries: analyzing the case of emergency medicine in India
Veena Sriram, Asha George, Rama Baru, Sara Bennett
‘Telling our story... Creating our own history’: caregivers’ reasons for participating in an Australian longitudinal study of Indigenous children
Katherine Ann Thurber, Anna Olsen, Jill Guthrie, Rachael McCormick, Andrew Hunter, Roxanne Jones, Bobby Maher, Cathy Banwell, Rochelle Jones, Bianca Calabria, Raymond Lovett
Influencing factors of inequity in health services utilization among the elderly in China
Xianzhi Fu, Nan Sun, Fei Xu, Jin Li, Qixin Tang, Junjian He, Dongdong Wang, Changqing Sun
Showcasing the contribution of social sciences to health policy and systems research
Stephanie M. Topp, Kerry Scott, Ana Lorena Ruano, Karen Daniels
Food insecurity and self-rated health in rural Nicaraguan women of reproductive age: a cross-sectional study
Wilton Pérez, Mariela Contreras, Rodolfo Peña, Elmer Zelaya, Lars-Åke Persson, Carina Källestål
“I attend at Vanguard and I attend here as well”: barriers to accessing healthcare services among older South Africans with HIV and non-communicable diseases
Lucia Knight, Enid Schatz, Ferdinand C. Mukumbang
Leadership experiences and practices of South African health managers: what is the influence of gender? -a qualitative, exploratory study
Maylene Shung-King, Lucy Gilson, Chinyere Mbachu, Sassy Molyneux, Kelly W. Muraya, Nkoli Uguru, Veloshnee Govender
How do gender and disability influence the ability of the poor to benefit from pro-poor health financing policies in Kenya? An intersectional analysis
Evelyn Kabia, Rahab Mbau, Kelly W. Muraya, Rosemary Morgan, Sassy Molyneux, Edwine Barasa
Government roles in regulating medical tourism: evidence from Guatemala
Ronald Labonté, Valorie A. Crooks, Alejandro Cerón Valdés, Vivien Runnels, Jeremy Snyder
The experience of interpreter access and language discordant clinical encounters in Australian health care: a mixed methods exploration
Jennifer White, Trish Plompen, Christian Osadnik, Leanne Tao, Emily Micallef, Terry Haines
Towards a more integrated and gender-sensitive care delivery for victims of sexual assault: key findings and recommendations from the Belgian sexual assault care centre feasibility study
Bavo Hendriks, Anke Marie-Josée Aimé Vandenberghe, Laura Peeters, Kristien Roelens, Ines Keygnaert
Effectiveness of programs to promote cardiovascular health of Indigenous Australians: a systematic review
Vainess Mbuzi, Paul Fulbrook, Melanie Jessup
Disruption as opportunity: Impacts of an organizational health equity intervention in primary care clinics
Annette J. Browne, Colleen Varcoe, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, C. Nadine Wathen, Victoria Smye, Beth E. Jackson, Bruce Wallace, Bernadette (Bernie) Pauly, Carol P. Herbert, Josée G. Lavoie, Sabrina T. Wong, Amelie Blanchet Garneau
Identifying health policy and systems research priorities for the sustainable development goals: social protection for health
Mary Qiu, Nasreen Jessani, Sara Bennett
Hospitalization for mental health related ambulatory care sensitive conditions: what are the trends for First Nations in British Columbia?
Josée G. Lavoie, Amanda Ward, Sabrina T. Wong, Naser Ibrahim, Darrien Morton, John D. O’Neil, Michael Green
Equity assessment of the distribution of CT and MRI scanners in China: a panel data analysis
Luyang He, Hao Yu, Lizheng Shi, Yao He, Jingsong Geng, Yan Wei, Hui Sun, Yingyao Chen
A survey of availability, price and affordability of essential medicines from 2011 to 2016 in Chinese secondary and tertiary hospitals
Xiaodong Guan, Huajie Hu, Chunxia Man, Luwen Shi
Adjusting a mainstream weight management intervention for people with intellectual disabilities: a user centred approach
Liz Croot, Melanie Rimmer, Sarah Salway, Chris Hatton, Emma Dowse, Jacquie Lavin, Sarah E. Bennett, Janet Harris, Alicia O’Cathain
Inequalities in health care utilization among migrants and non-migrants in Germany: a systematic review
Jens Klein, Olaf von dem Knesebeck
Primary care clinicians’ perspectives about quality measurements in safety-net clinics and non-safety-net clinics
Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, Luis Martin Ortega, Mai See Thao, Shannon L. Pergament, Andrew M. Pattock, Lynne S. Ogawa, Michael Scandrett, David J. Satin
Regional differences and determinants of self-rated health in a lower middle income rural Society of China
Lidan Wang, Weizhen Dong, Yunqing Ou, Shuting Chen, Jingjing Chen, Qicheng Jiang
The roll-out of a health insurance program and its impact on the supply of healthcare services: a new method to evaluate time-varying continuous interventions
Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren
Subjective health status of multimorbidity: verifying the mediating effects of medical and assistive devices
Munjae Lee, Kichan Yoon, Kyu-Sung Lee
Inequalities in the geographic distribution of hospital beds and doctors in traditional Chinese medicine from 2004 to 2014
Liming Lu, Jingchun Zeng
The relationship between catastrophic health expenditure and health-related quality of life
Seung Hyun Kang, Yeong Jun Ju, Hyo Jung Yoon, Sang Ah Lee, Woorim Kim, Eun-Cheol Park
Vaccine hesitancy among mobile pastoralists in Chad: a qualitative study
Mahamat Fayiz Abakar, Djimet Seli, Filippo Lechthaler, Esther Schelling, Nhan Tran, Jakob Zinsstag, Daniel Cobos Muñoz
Does cultural capital contribute to educational inequalities in food consumption in the Netherlands? A cross-sectional analysis of the GLOBE-2011 survey
Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis, Joost Oude Groeniger, Frank J. van Lenthe
A turnaround strategy: improving equity in order to achieve quality of care and financial sustainability in Italy
Gianluca Cafagna, Chiara Seghieri, Milena Vainieri, Sabina Nuti
How does membership in local savings groups influence the determinants of national health insurance demand? A cross-sectional study in Kisumu, Kenya
Tessa Oraro, Kaspar Wyss
Maternal health care access among migrant women labourers in the selected brick kilns of district Faridabad, Haryana: mixed method study on equity and access
Archana Siddaiah, Shashi Kant, Partha Haldar, Sanjay K. Rai, Puneet Misra
Medical termination of pregnancy service delivery in the context of decentralization: social and structural influences
Alana Hulme-Chambers, Samantha Clune, Jane Tomnay
The inequality of inpatient care net benefit under integration of urban-rural medical insurance systems in China
Xue Yang, Mingsheng Chen, Jinglin Du, Zhonghua Wang
Spillover benefit of improved access to healthcare on reducing worry about housing and meal affordability
Shiho Kino, Koryu Sato, Ichiro Kawachi
On the unraveling of ‘revitalization of local health traditions’ in India: an ethnographic inquiry
Arima Mishra, Devaki Nambiar
Area deprivation and attachment to a general practitioner through centralized waiting lists: a cross-sectional study in Quebec, Canada
Mélanie Ann Smithman, Astrid Brousselle, Nassera Touati, Antoine Boivin, Kareen Nour, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Christine Loignon, Djamal Berbiche, Mylaine Breton
Using concept mapping to identify policy options and interventions towards people-centred health care services: a multi stakeholders perspective
Christine Cécile Leyns, Jan De Maeseneer, Sara Willems
Trends in health resource disparities in primary health care institutions in Liaoning Province in Northeast China
Shuping Wang, Jin Xu, Xiaofeng Jiang, Chaofan Li, Hongmin Li, Suhang Song, Erdan Huang, Qingyue Meng
Accrediting private providers with National Health Insurance to better serve low-income populations in Kenya and Ghana: a qualitative study
Lauren Suchman
How do macro-level structural determinants affect inequalities in mental health? – a systematic review of the literature
A. McAllister, S. Fritzell, M. Almroth, L. Harber-Aschan, S. Larsson, B. Burström
Assessing changes in social determinants of health inequalities in South Africa : a decomposition analysis
Kehinde O. Omotoso, Steven F. Koch
Equity of primary care service delivery for low income “sicker” adults across 10 OECD countries
Simone Dahrouge, William Hogg, Elizabeth Muggah, Ted Schrecker
A two-stage spatial allocation model for elderly healthcare facilities in large-scale affordable housing communities: a case study in Nanjing City
Tiantian Gu, Lingzhi Li, Dezhi Li
Changes in income-related inequalities in cervical cancer screening during the Spanish economic crisis: a decomposition analysis
María Merino-Ventosa, Rosa M. Urbanos-Garrido
“I feel more comfortable speaking to a male”: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men’s discourse on utilizing primary health care services
Kootsy Canuto, Gary Wittert, Stephen Harfield, Alex Brown
Facilitators and barriers of sociodemographic data collection in Canadian health care settings: a multisite case study evaluation
Hazel Williams-Roberts, Cory Neudorf, Sylvia Abonyi, Jennifer Cushon, Nazeem Muhajarine
Tuberculosis incidence inequalities and its social determinants in Manaus from 2007 to 2016
Daniel Barros de Castro, Elvira Maria Godinho de Seixas Maciel, Megumi Sadahiro, Rosemary Costa Pinto, Bernardino Cláudio de Albuquerque, José Ueleres Braga