Ausgabe 1/2019
Inhalt (203 Artikel)
The social determinants of chronic disease management: perspectives of elderly patients with hypertension from low socio-economic background in Singapore
Sok Teng Tan, Rina Yu Chin Quek, Victoria Haldane, Joel Jun Kai Koh, Emeline Kai Lin Han, Suan Ee Ong, Fiona Leh Hoon Chuah, Helena Legido-Quigley
Urban-rural inequalities in suicide among elderly people in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Meizhi Li, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
He Pikinga Waiora: supporting Māori health organisations to respond to pre-diabetes
Angela Beaton, Carey Manuel, Jade Tapsell, Jeff Foote, John G. Oetzel, Maui Hudson
Measurement and decomposition of income-related inequality in self-rated health among the elderly in China
Hai Gu, Yun Kou, Hua You, Xinpeng Xu, Nichao Yang, Jing Liu, Xiyan Liu, Jinghong Gu, Xiaolu Li
Is there a fair distribution of the structure of dental services in the capitals of the Brazilian Federative Units?
Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Ana Graziela Araújo Ribeiro, Aline Sampieri Tonello, Ana Carolina Mendes Pinheiro, José Aquino Júnior, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Núbia Cristina da Silva, Elisa Miranda Costa, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Catherine Staton, Luiz Augusto Facchini, Erika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz
Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in cigarette smoking: the case of Namibia
Zunda Chisha, Chijioke O. Nwosu, John Ele-Ojo Ataguba
The impact of perceived discrimination on depressive symptoms and the role of differentiated social support among immigrant populations in South Korea
Chaelin Karen Ra, Jimi Huh, Brian Karl Finch, Youngtae Cho
How does whole of government action address inequities in obesity? A case study from Australia
Melanie Pescud, Ginny Sargent, Paul Kelly, Sharon Friel
Assessing the relationship between out-of-pocket spending on blood pressure and diabetes medication and household catastrophic health expenditure: evidence from Pakistan
Biplab Kumar Datta, Muhammad Jami Husain, Samira Asma
(Un)Equitable distribution of health resources and the judicialization of healthcare: 10 years of experience in Brazil
Luciana de Melo Nunes Lopes, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Semíramis Domingues Diniz, Tiago Lopes Coelho, Eli Iola Gurgel Andrade
Confidentiality agreements: a challenge in market regulation
Roberto F. Iunes, Manuela Villar Uribe, Janet Bonilla Torres, Marina Morgado Garcia, Carolina Zampirolli Dias, Juliana Alvares-Teodoro, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Augusto Afonso Guerra-Junior
Can social network analysis help to include marginalised young women in structural support programmes in Botswana? A mixed methods study
David Loutfi, Neil Andersson, Susan Law, Jon Salsberg, Jeannie Haggerty, Leagajang Kgakole, Anne Cockcroft
Benefit incidence analysis in public health facilities in India: utilization and benefits at the national and state levels
Diana Bowser, Bryan Patenaude, Manjiri Bhawalkar, Denizhan Duran, Peter Berman
The impact of policy on the intangible service efficiency of the primary health care institution- based on China’s health care reform policy in 2009
Yao Leng, Weiwei Liu, Nanzi Xiao, Yannan Li, Jing Deng
Socioeconomic inequalities in low back pain among older people: the JAGES cross-sectional study
Takaaki Ikeda, Kemmyo Sugiyama, Jun Aida, Toru Tsuboya, Nanae Watabiki, Katsunori Kondo, Ken Osaka
Sociodemographic patterns of health insurance coverage in Namibia
Sophie H. Allcock, Elizabeth H. Young, Manjinder S. Sandhu
Caesarean sections in the in the context of the Chiranjeevi Yojana public private partnership program to promote institutional birth in Gujarat, India; does the embedded disincentive for caesarean section work?
Mariano Salazar, Kranti Vora, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Ayesha De Costa
Experiences with rehabilitation and impact on community participation among adults with physical disability in Colombia: perspectives from stakeholders using a community based research approach
María Luisa Toro-Hernández, Alejandra Mondragón-Barrera, Sara Múnera-Orozco, Laura Villa-Torres, Wendy Camelo-Castillo
‘Learning to shape life’ – a qualitative study on the challenges posed by a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type 2
Astrid Fink, Eva-Maria Fach, Sara Lena Schröder
Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act
Marte E. S. Haaland, Haldis Haukanes, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Karen Marie Moland, Charles Michelo, Margarate Nzala Munakampe, Astrid Blystad
What accounts for the rise of low self-rated health during the recent economic crisis in Europe?
Michal Brzezinski
Co-insurance and health care utilization in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a discontinuity regression approach
Jörg Mahlich, Rosarin Sruamsiri
When abortion is not within reach: Ethiopian university students struggling with unintended pregnancies
Mulumebet Zenebe, Haldis Haukanes
Applying an intersectionality lens to examine health for vulnerable individuals following devolution in Kenya
Rosalind McCollum, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Lilian Otiso, Rachel Tolhurst, Maryline Mireku, Tim Martineau, Robinson Karuga, Sally Theobald
Trends in female genital mutilation/cutting in Senegal: what can we learn from successive household surveys in sub-Saharan African countries?
Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Bettina Shell-Duncan
Who should pay for the continuity of post-trial health care treatments?
Roberto Iunes, Manuela Villar Uribe, Janet Bonilla Torres, Marina Morgado Garcia, Juliana Alvares-Teodoro, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior
The effect of China’s new cooperative medical scheme on health expenditures among the rural elderly
Yanbing Zeng, Jiajing Li, Zhipeng Yuan, Ya Fang
Vulnerable populations and the right to health: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon around tuberculosis control
Camila Gianella, M. Amalia Pesantes, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, David A.J. Moore, Claudia Lema
Exploring pathways to outpatients’ satisfaction with health care in Chinese public hospitals in urban and rural areas using patient-reported experiences
Xuanxuan Wang, Jiaying Chen, Bo Burström, Kristina Burström
Health reform in Mexico: governance and potential outcomes
Jorge L. León-Cortés, Gustavo Leal Fernández, Héctor J. Sánchez-Pérez
The evolution of socioeconomic health inequalities in Ecuador during a public health system reform (2006–2014)
María Luisa Granda, Wilson Giovanni Jimenez
Long-term out of pocket expenditure of people with cancer: comparing health service cost and use for indigenous and non-indigenous people with cancer in Australia
Emily Callander, Nicole Bates, Daniel Lindsay, Sarah Larkins, Stephanie M. Topp, Joan Cunningham, Sabe Sabesan, Gail Garvey
Inequalities in the prevalence of undiagnosed hypertension among Bangladeshi adults: evidence from a nationwide survey
Sayem Ahmed, Md. Tariqujjaman, Md. Arafat Rahman, Md. Zahid Hasan, Md. Mehedi Hasan
Impact of oral health on Australian urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families: a qualitative study
Kaley Butten, Newell W. Johnson, Kerry K. Hall, Maree Toombs, Neil King, Kerry-Ann F. O’Grady
Factors influencing oncologists’ prescribing hormonal therapy in women with breast cancer: a qualitative study in Córdoba, Argentina
Yolanda Eraso
The health equity measurement framework: a comprehensive model to measure social inequities in health
Douglas C. Dover, Ana Paula Belon
Trends in mortality inequalities in an urban area: the influence of immigration
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Mercè Gotsens, Marc Marí dell’Olmo, Carme Borrell
Challenges to hypertension and diabetes management in rural Uganda: a qualitative study with patients, village health team members, and health care professionals
Haeyoon Chang, Nicola L. Hawley, Robert Kalyesubula, Trishul Siddharthan, William Checkley, Felix Knauf, Tracy L. Rabin
Realizing the right to health in Brazil’s Unified Health System through the lens of breast and cervical cancer
Fabiana da Mota Almeida Peroni, Magnus Lindelow, David Oliveira De Souza, Mirja Sjoblom
Socioeconomic inequalities in survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia insured by social security in Mexico: a study of the 2007–2009 cohorts
Angélica Castro-Ríos, Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Blanca E. Pelcastre-Villafuerte , Mario E. Rendón-Macías, Arturo Fajardo-Gutiérrez
Health care equity and access for marginalised young people: a longitudinal qualitative study exploring health system navigation in Australia
Fiona Robards, Melissa Kang, Katharine Steinbeck, Catherine Hawke, Stephen Jan, Lena Sanci, Ying Ying Liew, Marlene Kong, Tim Usherwood
Trends and predictors of inequality in childhood stunting in Nepal from 1996 to 2016
Mirak Raj Angdembe, Bishnu Prasad Dulal, Kreepa Bhattarai, Sumit Karn
Maternal and newborn health needs for women with walking disabilities; “the twists and turns”: a case study in Kibuku District Uganda
Rebecca R. Apolot, Elizabeth Ekirapa, Linda Waldman, Rosemary Morgan, Christine Aanyu, Aloysius Mutebi, Evelyne B. Nyachwo, Gloria Seruwagi, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka
Income gradient in health-related quality of life — the role of social networking time
Shaozhe Zhang, Wei Xiang
Correction to: Benefit incidence analysis in public health facilities in India: utilization and benefits at the national and state levels
Diana Bowser, Bryan Patenaude, Manjiri Bhawalkar, Denizhan Duran, Peter Berman
Providing equity of care for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Western Switzerland: a descriptive intervention in a University Hospital
Séverine Lalive d’Epinay Raemy, Adeline Paignon
“Let’s talk about money”: how do poor older people finance their healthcare in rural Ghana? A qualitative study
Williams Agyemang-Duah, Charles Peprah, Prince Peprah
Social integration and mental health - a decomposition approach to mental health inequalities between the foreign-born and native-born in Sweden
Anna Brydsten, Mikael Rostila, Andrea Dunlavy
Social inequality in sexual and reproductive health in Ecuador: an analysis of gaps by levels of provincial poverty 2009–2015
Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, René Leyva Flores, Belkis Aracena Genao
Determinants of paying national health insurance premium with mobile phone in Ghana: a cross-sectional prospective study
Joseph Marfo Boaheng, Eugenia Amporfu, Daniel Ansong, Anthony Kofi Osei-Fosu
Assessing national and subnational inequalities in medical care utilization and financial risk protection in Rwanda
Kai Liu, S. V. Subramanian, Chunling Lu
Our lives in boxes: perceived community mediators between housing insecurity and health using a PHOTOVOICE approach
Hugo Vásquez-Vera, Ana Fernández, Ana M. Novoa, Lucía Delgado, Joaquín Barcala, Carlos Macías, Carme Borrell
A qualitative study of the dissemination and diffusion of innovations: bottom up experiences of senior managers in three health districts in South Africa
Marsha Orgill, Lucy Gilson, Wezile Chitha, Janet Michel, Ermin Erasmus, Bruno Marchal, Bronwyn Harris
Correction to: Socioeconomic inequalities in survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia insured by social security in Mexico: a study of the 2007-2009 cohorts
Angélica Castro-Ríos, Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Blanca E. Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Mario E. Rendón-Macías, Arturo Fajardo-Gutiérrez
Exploring the equity impact of a maternal and newborn health intervention: a qualitative study of participatory women’s groups in rural South Asia and Africa
Joanna Morrison, David Osrin, Glyn Alcock, Kishwar Azad, Jyoti Bamjan, Bharat Budhathoki, Abdul Kuddus, Mahfuza Akter Mala, Dharma Manandhar, Albert Nkhata, Shrijana Pathak, Tambosi Phiri, Shibanand Rath, Prasanta Tripathy, Anthony Costello, Tanja A. J. Houweling
Women in clinical trials: a review of policy development and health equity in the Canadian context
Alla Yakerson
The impact of Medicare part D on income-related inequality in pharmaceutical expenditure
Natalie Carvalho, Dennis Petrie, Linkun Chen, Joshua A. Salomon, Philip Clarke
Correction to: The health equity measurement framework: a comprehensive model to measure social inequities in health
Douglas C. Dover, Ana Paula Belon
Sub-Saharan African immigrant women's experiences of (lack of) access to appropriate healthcare in the public health system in the Basque Country, Spain
Iratxe Pérez-Urdiales, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián, Amaia Irazusta, Ida Linander
Centering female agency while investigating contraceptive use: a case study in Agincourt, South Africa
Cara Margherio
Is the judicialization of health care bad for equity? A scoping review
Tatiana S. Andia, Everaldo Lamprea
Health care utilization and affordability among older people following China’s 2009 health reform -- evidence from CHARLS pilot study
Jiajia Li, Leiyu Shi, Hailun Liang, Chao Ma, Lingzhong Xu, Wen Qin
Impact of out of pocket payments on financial risk protection indicators in a setting with no user fees: the case of Mauritius
Ajoy Nundoochan, Yusuf Thorabally, Sooneeraz Monohur, Justine Hsu
Assessing evidence of interventions addressing inequity among migrant populations: a two-stage systematic review
Jirawit Yadee, Mukdarut Bangpan, Kednapa Thavorn, Vivian Welch, Peter Tugwell, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk
Healthcare equity analysis: applying the Tanahashi model of health service coverage to community health systems following devolution in Kenya
Rosalind McCollum, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Lilian Otiso, Maryline Mireku, Nelly Muturi, Tim Martineau, Sally Theobald
Correction to: Financial crisis and income-related inequalities in the universal provision of a public service: the case of healthcare in Spain
Ignacio Abásolo, Marc Saez, Guillem López-Casasnovas
Increasing health facility deliveries in Cambodia and its influence on child health
Hayley Pierce
Judicialization of access to medicines in four Latin American countries: a comparative qualitative analysis
Claudia Marcela Vargas-Pelaez, Marina Raijche Mattozo Rover, Luciano Soares, Carine Raquel Blatt, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse, Francisco Augusto Rossi, Luis Guillermo Restrepo, María Cristina Latorre, José Julián López, María Teresa Bürgin, Consuelo Silva, Silvana Nair Leite, Mareni Rocha Farias
General practice for the poor and specialist services for the rich: inequality evidence from a cross-sectional survey on Hangzhou residents, China
Tao Zhang, Chaojie Liu, Lingrui Liu, Yong Gan, Wei Lu, Hongbing Tao
Factors supporting retention of aboriginal health and wellbeing staff in Aboriginal health services: a comprehensive review of the literature
Sara Deroy, Heike Schütze
Primary non-communicable disease prevention and communication barriers of deaf sign language users: a qualitative study
Severin Pinilla, Sebastian Walther, Arnd Hofmeister, Soeren Huwendiek
Access to community-based HIV services among transgender women in Cambodia: findings from a national survey
Siyan Yi, Say Sok, Srean Chhim, Pheak Chhoun, Navy Chann, Sovannary Tuot, Phalkun Mun, Marija Pantelic
Incidence, socio-economic inequalities and determinants of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment for diabetes care in South Africa: a study at two public hospitals in Tshwane
Chipo Mutyambizi, Milena Pavlova, Charles Hongoro, Frederik Booysen, Wim Groot
Understanding the experiences, perspectives and values of indigenous women around smoking cessation in pregnancy: systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Rachael C. Walker, Aria Graham, Suetonia C. Palmer, Anita Jagroop, David C. Tipene-Leach
Overseeing health care facilities in Shanghai, China: regulatory regime, activities and challenges of the governmental regulatory system
Yizhong Zhou, Zechang Lu, Zhifeng Yang, Huidi Li, Yingyao Chen
Spatial accessibility to pediatric primary care in Philadelphia: an area-level cross sectional analysis
Abigail E. Mudd, Yvonne L. Michael, Steven Melly, Kari Moore, Ana Diez-Roux, Christopher B. Forrest
Equitable realization of the right to health in Haiti: how household data inform health seeking behavior and financial risk protection
Marion Cros, Eleonora Cavagnero, Jean Patrick Alfred, Mirja Sjoblom, Nicolas Collin, Tania Mathurin
Equity in household spending on alcoholic beverages in South Africa: assessing changes between 1995 and 2011
Mayara Fontes Marx, Leslie London, Nadine Harker, John E. Ataguba
The effect of the health poverty alleviation project on financial risk protection for rural residents: evidence from Chishui City, China
Chu Chen, Jay Pan
Conceptual framework of equity-focused implementation research for health programs (EquIR)
J. Eslava-Schmalbach, N. Garzón-Orjuela, V. Elias, L. Reveiz, N. Tran, E. V. Langlois
The impact and importance of place on health for young people of Pasifika descent in Queensland, Australia: a qualitative study towards developing meaningful health equity indicators
Jo Durham, Nicola Fa’avale, Andrew Fa’avale, Catrina Ziesman, Eden Malama, Sarai Tafa, Tamaika Taito, Jori Etuale, Mitieli Yaranamua, Ueta Utai, Lisa Schubert
Solidarity against healthcare access restrictions on undocumented immigrants in Spain: the REDER case study
Maider Urtaran-Laresgoiti, Janire Fonseca Peso, Roberto Nuño-Solinís
Providers and women’s perspectives on person-centered maternity care: a mixed methods study in Kenya
May Sudhinaraset, Katie Giessler, Ginger Golub, Patience Afulani
Gap analysis on hospitalized health service utilization in floating population covered by different medical insurances: case study from Jiangsu Province, China
Xinzhao Cai, Fan Yang, Ying Bian
Disease and disparity in China: a view from stroke and MI disease
Yao Yao, Gordon Liu, Linhong Wang, Hanqing Zhao, Zhenping Zhao, Mei Zhang, Meijiao Wang, Limin Wang
Health needs, health care seeking behaviour, and utilization of health services among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Getnet Tadele, Woldekidan Kifle Amde
Subjective social status and inequalities in depressive symptoms: a gender-specific decomposition analysis for South Africa
Chipo Mutyambizi, Frederik Booysen, Per Stornes, Terje A. Eikemo
Inequality in breast cancer care in a Brazilian capital city: a comparative analysis of narratives
Ana Lúcia Lobo Vianna Cabral, Luana Giatti, Ángel Martínez-Hernáez, Mariângela Leal Cherchiglia
Affordable and equitable access to subsidised outpatient medicines? Analysis of co-payments under the Additional Drug Package in Kyrgyzstan
Sabine Vogler, Peter Schneider, Guillaume Dedet, Hanne Bak Pedersen
The comparison of healthcare utilization inequity between URRBMI and NCMS in rural China
Zengwen Wang, Yucheng Chen, Tianyi Pan, Xiaodi Liu, Hongwei Hu
Institutional differences and geographical disparity: the impact of medical insurance on the equity of health services utilization by the floating elderly population - evidence from China
Junqiang Han, Yingying Meng
Equity in healthcare financing: a case of Iran
Faride Sadat Jalali, Abdosaleh Jafari, Mohsen Bayati, Peivand Bastani, Ramin Ravangard
Keys to academic success for under-represented minority young investigators: recommendations from the Research in Academic Pediatrics Initiative on Diversity (RAPID) National Advisory Committee
Glenn Flores, Fernando S. Mendoza, Michael R. DeBaun, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, V. Faye Jones, Jason A. Mendoza, Jean L. Raphael, C. Jason Wang
Health need assessment in an indigenous high-altitude population living on an island in Lake Titicaca, Perú
María Calderón, Rosa Alvarado-Villacorta, Miguel Barrios, Devy Quiroz-Robladillo, Doris Rocío Guzmán Naupay, Ana Obregon, Sthefanny Calderón Chávez, Lisa Glaser, Andres M. Carnero, Carla Cortez-Vergara, David Iglesias Quilca, Jose Colque Gonzales, David Moore
Gender and health social enterprises in Africa: a research agenda
Kevin McKague, Sarah Harrison
Migrant mortality differences in the 2000s in Belgium: interaction with gender and the role of socioeconomic position
Katrien Vanthomme, Hadewijch Vandenheede
Informing the American Academy of family Physician’s Health Equity strategy – an environmental scan using the Delphi technique
Kevin A. Kovach, Cory B. Lutgen, Elisabeth F. Callen, Christina M. Hester
“We are called the et cetera”: experiences of the poor with health financing reforms that target them in Kenya
Evelyn Kabia, Rahab Mbau, Robinson Oyando, Clement Oduor, Godfrey Bigogo, Sammy Khagayi, Edwine Barasa
Out-of-pocket expenditure and distress financing on institutional delivery in India
Suyash Mishra, Sanjay K. Mohanty
Scenarios for population health inequalities in 2030 in Europe: the EURO-HEALTHY project experience
António Alvarenga, Carlos A. Bana e Costa, Carme Borrell, Pedro Lopes Ferreira, Ângela Freitas, Liliana Freitas, Mónica D. Oliveira, Teresa C. Rodrigues, Paula Santana, Maria Lopes Santos, Ana C. L. Vieira
Experience of healthcare among the homeless and vulnerably housed a qualitative study: opportunities for equity-oriented health care
Eva Purkey, Meredith MacKenzie
The prevalence of Epilepsy and its co-occurrence with alcohol dependence among polish prisoners
Barbara Stawińska-Witoszyńska, Katarzyna Czechowska, Barbara Więckowska
Short relative leg length is associated with overweight and obesity in Mexican immigrant women
Mireya Vilar-Compte, James Macinko, Beth C. Weitzman, Carlos M. Avendaño-Villela
Age and regional disparity in HIV education among migrants in China: migrants population dynamic monitoring survey, 2014–2015
Zheng Zhu, Mengdi Guo, Darina V. Petrovsky, Tingyue Dong, Yan Hu, Bei Wu
Care inequality: care received according to gender, marital status, and socioeconomic status among Korean older adults with disability
Soong-nang Jang, Ichiro Kawachi
Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
Alicia Ely Yamin, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Paola Bergallo
The mismeasurement of complexity: provider narratives of patients with complex needs in primary care settings
Fiona Webster, Kathleen Rice, Onil Bhattacharyya, Joel Katz, Eric Oosenbrug, Ross Upshur
The impact of financial crisis and austerity policies in Andalusia, Spain: disentangling the mechanisms of social inequalities in health through the perceptions and experiences of experts and the general population
Javier Alvarez-Galvez, Victor Suarez-Lledo, Gloria Martinez-Cousinou, Eider Muniategui-Azkona, Auxiliadora Gonzalez-Portillo
What drives us apart? Decomposing intersectional inequalities in cigarette smoking by education and sexual orientation among U.S. adults
Nada Amroussia, Jennifer L. Pearson, Per E. Gustafsson
Ethnic inequalities and trends in stunting prevalence among Guatemalan children: an analysis using national health surveys 1995–2014
Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez, Cesar Victora, Aluisio J. D. Barros
Health expenditure efficiency in rural China using the super-SBM model and the Malmquist productivity index
Weilin Liu, Ying Xia, Jianlin Hou
A systematic review of reasons for and against asking patients about their socioeconomic contexts
Andrew Moscrop, Sue Ziebland, Nia Roberts, Andrew Papanikitas
Making sense of street chaos: an ethnographic exploration of homeless people’s health service utilization
Austin O’Carroll, David Wainwright
Swedish Healthcare Direct managers’ views on gender (in)equity: applying a conceptual model
Elenor Kaminsky, Anna T. Höglund
Languishing in the crossroad? A scoping review of intersectional inequalities in mental health
Nadja Fagrell Trygg, Per E. Gustafsson, Anna Månsdotter
Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia
Joseph Mumba Zulu, Astrid Blystad, Marte E. S. Haaland, Charles Michelo, Haldis Haukanes, Karen Marie Moland
Through health workers’ eyes: a qualitative study of health service provision for migrants at Schengen border
Mateja Žagar, Danica Rotar Pavlič, Igor Švab, Alem Maksuti, Boris Ilić, Martina Smrekar, Irena Kovačević
Catastrophic health care expenditure in Myanmar: policy implications in leading progress towards universal health coverage
Chaw-Yin Myint, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
Recognition: key to the entrepreneurial strategies of rural coalitions in advancing access to health care
Kathy L. Rush, Mike Chiasson, Mary Butterfield, Silvia Straka, Barbara Jean Buckley
Social and emotional developmental vulnerability at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales: a population data linkage study
Anna Williamson, Alison Gibberd, Mark J. Hanly, Emily Banks, Sandra Eades, Kathleen Clapham, Kathleen Falster
Mental health problems and socioeconomic disadvantage: a controlled household study in rural Ethiopia
Yohannes Hailemichael, Charlotte Hanlon, Kebede Tirfessa, Sumaiyah Docrat, Atalay Alem, Girmay Medhin, Abebaw Fekadu, Crick Lund, Dan Chisholm, Damen Hailemariam
Demographic, socioeconomic, and health correlates of unmet need for mental health treatment in the United States, 2002–16: evidence from the national surveys on drug use and health
Justin C. Yang, Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, Martin McKee, Carol Brayne
Measuring and explaining changing patterns of inequality in institutional deliveries between urban and rural women in Ghana: a decomposition analysis
Eugenia Amporfu, Karen A. Grépin
Gender variations in the relationship between social capital and mental health outcomes among the Indigenous populations of Canada
Alexander Levesque, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Access to Norwegian healthcare system – challenges for sub-Saharan African immigrants
Vivian N. Mbanya, Laura Terragni, Abdi A. Gele, Esperanza Diaz, Bernadette N. Kumar
The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia
Astrid Blystad, Haldis Haukanes, Getnet Tadele, Marte E. S. Haaland, Richard Sambaiga, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Karen Marie Moland
Risky sexual behaviour and contraceptive use in contexts of displacement: insights from a cross-sectional survey of female adolescent refugees in Ghana
John Kuumuori Ganle, Doris Amoako, Leonard Baatiema, Muslim Ibrahim
Socioeconomic inequalities in post-natal health checks for the newborn in Vietnam
Nguyen Duc Lam, Nguyen Duy Anh, Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, Truong Quang Vinh, Vu Thi Mai Anh, Vu Duy Kien
Healthcare-seeking behavior among pregnant women in the Chinese hierarchical medical system: a cross-sectional study
Guihao Liu, Yunlian Xue, Zhenzhu Qian, Liuna Yang, Yunbin Yang, Qingshan Geng, Xin Wang
The association of migration experiences on the self-rated health status among adult humanitarian refugees to Australia: an analysis of a longitudinal cohort study
Alison Dowling, Joanne Enticott, Marina Kunin, Grant Russell
Inequalities in the health survey using validation question to filter insufficient effort responding: reducing overestimated effects or creating selection bias?
Jingjing Lu, Feng Wang, Xiaomin Wang, Leesa Lin, Weiyi Wang, Lu Li, Xudong Zhou
Effects of racism on the socio-emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal Australian children
D. M. Macedo, L. G. Smithers, R. M. Roberts, Y. Paradies, L. M. Jamieson
Challenges to diabetes self-management for adults with type 2 diabetes in low-resource settings in Mexico City: a qualitative descriptive study
Robin Whittemore, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Selene De La Cerda, Denise Marron, Rosabelle Conover, Roberta Delvy, Annel Lozano-Marrufo, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla
Leaving no one behind? Social inclusion of health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Suzanne G. M. van Hees, Timothy O’Fallon, Miranda Hofker, Marleen Dekker, Sarah Polack, Lena Morgon Banks, Ernst J. A. M. Spaan
Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania
Richard Sambaiga, Haldis Haukanes, Karen Marie Moland, Astrid Blystad
Beyond enrolments: a systematic review exploring the factors affecting the retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health students in the tertiary education system
Emma V. Taylor, Alex Lalovic, Sandra C. Thompson
Prevalence and determinants of pre-adolescent (5–14 years) acute and chronic undernutrition in Lay Armachiho District, Ethiopia
Eleni Belay, Simegnew Handebo, Terefe Derso, Amare Tariku, Mekonnen Sisay
‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia
Getnet Tadele, Haldis Haukanes, Astrid Blystad, Karen Marie Moland
Salutogenic health promotion program for migrant women at risk of social exclusion
A. Bonmatí-Tomas, M. C. Malagón-Aguilera, S. Gelabert-Vilella, C. Bosch-Farré, L. Vaandrager, M. M. García-Gil, D. Juvinyà-Canal
On the ethics of healthy ageing: setting impermissible trade-offs relating to the health and well-being of older adults on the path to universal health coverage
Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam, Ritu Sadana
Socioeconomic inequalities in maternal health care utilization in Ghana
Jacob Novignon, Bernice Ofori, Kwasi Gyabaa Tabiri, Mohammad Habibullah Pulok
Caregiver-perceived racial discrimination is associated with diverse mental health outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 7–12 years
Leah Cave, Matthew N. Cooper, Stephen R. Zubrick, Carrington C. J. Shepherd
Nutrition among children of migrant construction workers in Ahmedabad, India
Divya Ravindranath, Jean-Francois Trani, Lora Iannotti
Ethics, health policy-making and the economic crisis: a qualitative interview study with European policy-makers
Caroline Brall, Peter Schröder-Bäck, Rouven Porz, Farhang Tahzib, Helmut Brand
Evolution of catastrophic health expenditure in a high income country: incidence versus inequalities
Carlota Quintal
Enhancing the value of women’s reproductive rights through community based interventions in upper Egypt governorates: a randomized interventional study
Ammal M. Metwally, Rehan M. Saleh, Lobna A. El-Etreby, Somia I. Salama, Ahmed Aboulghate, Hala A. Amer, Asmaa M. Fathy, Reham Yousry, Sherif E. El-Deeb, Ghada A. Abdel-Latif, Dalia M. Elmosalami, Nihad A. Ibrahim, Osama M. Azmy, Tamer Taha, Hanaa M. Imam, Mohamed Abdel Rahman, Samia A. R. Hemeda
Social and cultural construction processes involved in HPV vaccine hesitancy among Chinese women: a qualitative study
Judy Yuen-man Siu, Timothy K. F. Fung, Leo Ho-man Leung
Long-term trends in smoking prevalence and its socioeconomic inequalities in Korea, 1992–2016
Youngs Chang, Hee-Yeon Kang, Dohee Lim, Hong-Jun Cho, Young-Ho Khang
Effects of an empowerment program for survivors of sexual violence on attitudes and beliefs: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
John Quattrochi, Rosalie Biaba, Ragnhild Nordås, Gudrun Østby, Susanne Alldén, Aline Cikara, Esther Namegabe, Christina Amisi
Socioeconomic disparities in access to intensive insulin regimens for adults with type 1 diabetes: a qualitative study of patient and healthcare professional perspectives
Anne Scott, Alicia O’Cathain, Elizabeth Goyder
Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England
Asam Latif, Justin Waring, Kristian Pollock, Josie Solomon, Nargis Gulzar, Shahida Choudhary, Claire Anderson
The historical roots and seminal research on health equity: a referenced publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) analysis
Qiang Yao, Xin Li, Fei Luo, Lianping Yang, Chaojie Liu, Ju Sun
Underpinnings of entangled ethnical and gender inequalities in obesity in Cochabamba-Bolivia: an intersectional approach
Yercin Mamani Ortiz, Per E. Gustafsson, Miguel San Sebastián Chasco, Ada Ximena Armaza Céspedes, Jenny Marcela Luizaga López, Daniel Elving Illanes Velarde, Paola A. Mosquera Méndez
Assessing changes in costs of maternal postpartum services between 2013 and 2014 in Burkina Faso
Danielle Yugbaré Belemsaga, Anne Goujon, Olivier Degomme, Tchichihouenichidah Nassa, Els Duysburgh, Seni Kouanda, Marleen Temmerman
Health service utilization, perspectives, and health-seeking behavior for maternal and child health services in the Amazon of Peru, a mixed-methods study
Christopher M. Westgard, Ally Rogers, Giselle Bello, Natalia Rivadeneyra
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in stunting prevalence in Latin America and the Caribbean countries: differences between quintiles and deciles
Maria del Pilar Flores-Quispe, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Maria Fátima S. Maia, Leonardo Z. Ferreira, Fernando C. Wehrmeister
Antidepressant medication use among working age first-generation migrants resident in Finland: an administrative data linkage study
Tania Bosqui, Ari Väänänen, Andre Buscariolli, Aki Koskinen, Dermot O’Reilly, Auli Airila, Anne Kouvonen
The health profile of newly-arrived refugee women and girls and the role of region of origin: using a population-based dataset in California between 2013 and 2017
May Sudhinaraset, Nuny Cabanting, Marisa Ramos
Economic barriers, evidentiary gaps, and ethical conundrums: a qualitative study of physicians’ challenges recommending HPV vaccination to older gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men
Daniel Grace, Mark Gaspar, Ron Rosenes, Ramandip Grewal, Ann N. Burchell, Troy Grennan, Irving E. Salit
Does public service motivation matter in Moroccan public hospitals? A multiple embedded case study
Zakaria Belrhiti, Wim Van Damme, Abdelmounim Belalia, Bruno Marchal
Socioeconomic inequality in dental care utilization in Iran: a decomposition approach
Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Seyed Fahim Irandoost, Yahya Salimi
Socioeconomic inequalities in the use of caesarean section delivery in Ghana: a cross-sectional study using nationally representative data
Emmanuel Dankwah, Shelley Kirychuk, Wu Zeng, Cindy Feng, Marwa Farag
Reported Māori consumer experiences of health systems and programs in qualitative research: a systematic review with meta-synthesis
Suetonia C. Palmer, Harriet Gray, Tania Huria, Cameron Lacey, Lutz Beckert, Suzanne G. Pitama
Educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality among people with gout: a register-based matched cohort study in southern Sweden
Ali Kiadaliri, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Aleksandra Turkiewicz, Martin Englund
Predicting poverty. Data mining approaches to the health and demographic surveillance system in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua
C. Källestål, E. Blandón Zelaya, R. Peña, W. Peréz, M. Contreras, L. Å. Persson, O. Sysoev, K. Ekholm Selling
Effects of health insurance integration on health care utilization and its equity among the mid-aged and elderly: evidence from China
Chaofan Li, Chengxiang Tang, Haipeng Wang
HIV prevalence in South Africa through gender and racial lenses: results from the 2012 population-based national household survey
M. Mabaso, L. Makola, I. Naidoo, L. L. Mlangeni, S. Jooste, L. Simbayi
Barriers to equitable maternal health in Aotearoa New Zealand: an integrative review
Pauline Dawson, Chrys Jaye, Robin Gauld, Jean Hay-Smith
Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of brief interventions targeting smoking, nutrition, and physical activity for indigenous populations: a narrative review
Mojan Fazelipour, Frances Cunningham
Personalisation schemes in social care and inequality: review of the evidence and early theorising
Gemma Carey, Brad Crammond, Eleanor Malbon
Defining ‘actionable’ high- costhealth care use: results using the Canadian Institute for Health Information population grouping methodology
Maureen Anderson, Crawford W. Revie, Henrik Stryhn, Cordell Neudorf, Yvonne Rosehart, Wenbin Li, Meriç Osman, David L. Buckeridge, Laura C. Rosella, Walter P. Wodchis
Changes in inequality in utilization of preventive care services: evidence on China’s 2009 and 2015 health system reform
Yongjian Xu, Tao Zhang, Duolao Wang
Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilization in four Ethiopian regions; a cross-sectional study
Atkure Defar, Yemisrach B. Okwaraji, Zemene Tigabu, Lars Åke Persson, Kassahun Alemu
Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition
Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, David Tipene-Leach, Curtis Walker, Belinda Loring, Sarah-Jane Paine, Papaarangi Reid
A qualitative study into female sex workers’ experience of stigma in the health care setting in Hong Kong
Haixia Ma, Alice Yuen Loke
Following the legacy of professors Barbara Starfield and Leiyu Shi in Brazil as health policy: the National Health Survey (PNS), led by the Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT)
Erno Harzheim, Luiz Felipe Pinto, Otavio Pereira D’Avila, Lisiane Hauser
Explaining income-related inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors in Tunisian adults during the last decade: comparison of sensitivity analysis of logistic regression and Wagstaff decomposition analysis
Olfa Saidi, Nada Zoghlami, Kathleen E. Bennett, Paola Andrea Mosquera, Dhafer Malouche, Simon Capewell, Habiba Ben Romdhane, Martin O’Flaherty
Residential exposure to natural outdoor environments and general health among older adults in Shanghai, China
Baishi Huang, Ye Liu, Zhiqiang Feng, Jamie R. Pearce, Ruoyu Wang, Yina Zhang, Jie Chen
Measuring inequalities in the public health workforce at county-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in China
Weiqin Cai, Chengyue Li, Mei Sun, Mo Hao
Ongoing challenges in access to diabetes care among the indigenous population: perspectives of individuals living in rural Guatemala
Edwin Nieblas-Bedolla, Kent D. W. Bream, Allison Rollins, Frances K. Barg
Facilitating equitable community-level access to maternal health services: exploring the experiences of Rwanda’s community health workers
Germaine Tuyisenge, Valorie A. Crooks, Nicole S. Berry
What constitutes patient-centred care for women: a theoretical rapid review
Jessica U. Ramlakhan, Angel M. Foster, Sherry L. Grace, Courtney R. Green, Donna E. Stewart, Anna R. Gagliardi
Integrating community health representatives with health care systems: clinical outcomes among individuals with diabetes in Navajo Nation
Letizia Trevisi, John E. Orav, Sidney Atwood, Christian Brown, Cameron Curley, Caroline King, Olivia Muskett, Hannah Sehn, Katrina A. Nelson, Mae-Gilene Begay, Sonya S. Shin
Needs and perceptions regarding healthy eating among people at risk of food insecurity: a qualitative analysis
Laura A. van der Velde, Linde A. Schuilenburg, Jyothi K. Thrivikraman, Mattijs E. Numans, Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong
Trends in horizontal inequity in access to public health care services by immigrant condition in Spain (2006–2017)
Jaime Pinilla, Miguel A. Negrín, Ignacio Abásolo
The effects of poverty reduction policy on health services utilization among the rural poor: a quasi-experimental study in central and western rural China
Qi Zou, Xiaoqun He, Zhong Li, Wanchun Xu, Liang Zhang
Horizontal equity in access to public GP services by socioeconomic group: potential bias due to a compartmentalised approach
M. A. Negrín, J. Pinilla, I. Abásolo
Inequality of health stock and the relation to national wealth
Isma Addi Jumbri, Shinya Ikeda, Masayuki Jimichi, Chika Saka, Shunsuke Managi
The respective parts of incidence and lethality in socioeconomic differences in cancer mortality. An analysis of the French network Cancer registries (FRANCIM) data
Joséphine Bryere, Laure Tron, Gwenn Menvielle, Guy Launoy, Françoise Galateau-Salle, Anne-Marie Bouvier, Simona Bara, Clarisse Joachim-Contaret, Olivier Ganry, Claire Schvartz, Sandrine Plouvier, Guy Launoy, Emilie Marrer, Patrick Arveux, Pascale Grosclaude, Xavier Troussard, Marc Maynadie, Alain Monnereau, Jean Pierre Daures, Florence Molinie, Anne-Sophie Woronoff, Isabelle Baldi, Jean-Baptiste Nousbbaum, Gaëlle Coureau, Jacqueline Deloumeaux, Marc Colonna, Michel Velten, Tania D’Almeida, Anne-Valérie Guizard, Jacqueline Clavel, Brigitte Lacour, Pierre Ingrand, Sylvie Laumod, Emmanuel Chirpaz, Laure-Manuella Desroziers-Imounga
Hepatitis C drug prescriptions and Medicaid policies--four states, Indian health care system, USA 2018
Brigg Reilley, Matt Miller, Matt Hudson, Rick Haverkate, Jessica Leston
What is the role of cultural competence in ethnic minority consumer engagement? An analysis in community healthcare
Reema Harrison, Merrilyn Walton, Ashfaq Chauhan, Elizabeth Manias, Upma Chitkara, Monika Latanik, Desiree Leone
Does migrant background predict to what extent colorectal cancer patients want to be informed about their life expectancy? – a cross-sectional analysis
Marja Leonhardt, Katja Aschenbrenner, Martin E. Kreis, Johannes C. Lauscher
Households forgoing healthcare as a measure of financial risk protection: an application to Liberia
Jacopo Gabani, Lorna Guinness
How is equity approached in universal health coverage? An analysis of global and country policy documents in Benin and Senegal
Elisabeth Paul, Céline Deville, Oriane Bodson, N’koué Emmanuel Sambiéni, Ibrahima Thiam, Marc Bourgeois, Valéry Ridde, Fabienne Fecher
Socio-economic inequality and inequity in use of health care services in Kenya: evidence from the fourth Kenya household health expenditure and utilization survey
Stefania Ilinca, Laura Di Giorgio, Paola Salari, Jane Chuma
Widespread and widely widening? Examining absolute socioeconomic health inequalities in northern Sweden across twelve health indicators
Kinza Degerlund Maldi, Miguel San Sebastian, Per E. Gustafsson, Frida Jonsson
Pooling arrangements in health financing systems: a proposed classification
Inke Mathauer, Priyanka Saksena, Joe Kutzin
Intersectionality-based quantitative health research and sex/gender sensitivity: a scoping review
Emily Mena, Gabriele Bolte, Gabriele Bolte, Emily Mena, Alexander Rommel, Anke-Christine Saß, Kathleen Pöge, Sarah Strasser, Christine Holmberg, Sibille Merz, Philipp Jaehn
Wealth-based equity in maternal, neonatal, and child health services utilization: a cross-sectional study from Ethiopia
Alem Desta Wuneh, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Afework Mulugeta Bezabih, Lars Åke Persson, Joanna Schellenberg, Yemisrach Behailu Okwaraji
Connecting knowledge with action for health equity: a critical interpretive synthesis of promising practices
Katrina M. Plamondon, C. Susana Caxaj, Ian D. Graham, Joan L. Bottorff
Socio-economic inequality in malnutrition among children in India: an analysis of 640 districts from National Family Health Survey (2015–16)
Shrikant Singh, Swati Srivastava, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay
Experiences, perspectives and values of Indigenous peoples regarding kidney transplantation: systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Rachael C. Walker, Sally Abel, Annie Reynolds, Suetonia C. Palmer, Curtis Walker, David C. Tipene-Leach
Exploring patient experiences with and attitudes towards hypertension at a private hospital in Uganda: a qualitative study
Hayley M. Lynch, Aliza S. Green, Rose Clarke Nanyonga, Darinka D. Gadikota-Klumpers, Allison Squires, Jeremy I. Schwartz, David J. Heller