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International Journal for Equity in Health

Ausgabe 1/2013

Inhalt (95 Artikel)

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Decomposing Kenyan socio-economic inequalities in skilled birth attendance and measles immunization

Carine Van Malderen, Irene Ogali, Anne Khasakhala, Stephen N Muchiri, Corey Sparks, Herman Van Oyen, Niko Speybroeck

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Mediation of the effects of living in extremely poor neighborhoods by health insurance: breast cancer care and survival in California, 1996 to 2011

Kevin M Gorey, Isaac N Luginaah, Eric J Holowaty, Guangyong Zou, Caroline Hamm, Madhan K Balagurusamy

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The impact of economic growth on health care utilization: a longitudinal study in rural Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Minh Thoa, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Lars Lindholm

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Patient-centred access to health care: conceptualising access at the interface of health systems and populations

Jean-Frederic Levesque, Mark F Harris, Grant Russell

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A statistical procedure to create a neighborhood socioeconomic index for health inequalities analysis

Benoît Lalloué, Jean-Marie Monnez, Cindy Padilla, Wahida Kihal, Nolwenn Le Meur, Denis Zmirou-Navier, Séverine Deguen

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“Can community level interventions have an impact on equity and utilization of maternal health care” – Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Zahidul Quayyum, Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan, Tasmeen Quayyum, Hashima E Nasreen, Morseda Chowdhury, Tim Ensor

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Nutritional status of indigenous children: findings from the First National Survey of Indigenous People’s Health and Nutrition in Brazil

Bernardo L Horta, Ricardo Ventura Santos, James R Welch, Andrey M Cardoso, Janaína Vieira dos Santos, Ana Marlúcia Oliveira Assis, Pedro CI Lira, Carlos EA Coimbra Jr

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Socioeconomic deprivation as a determinant of cancer mortality and the Hispanic paradox in Texas, USA

Billy U Philips Jr, Eric Belasco, Kyriakos S Markides, Gordon Gong

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Measuring equity in utilization of emergency obstetric care at Wolisso Hospital in Oromiya, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

Calistus Wilunda, Giovanni Putoto, Fabio Manenti, Maria Castiglioni, Gaetano Azzimonti, Wagari Edessa, Andrea Atzori, Mario Merialdi, Ana Pilar Betrán, Joshua Vogel, Bart Criel

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Childhood disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: a literature review

Michelle DiGiacomo, Patricia M Davidson, Penelope Abbott, Patricia Delaney, Tessa Dharmendra, Sarah J McGrath, Joanne Delaney, Frank Vincent

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Prospects of using community directed intervention strategy in delivering health services among Fulani Nomads in Enugu State, Nigeria

Joseph C Okeibunor, Nkechi G Onyeneho, Obioma C Nwaorgu, Ngozi I’Aronu, Ijeoma Okoye, Felicia U Iremeka, Johannes Sommerfeld

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Contribution of socioeconomic status to the risk of small for gestational age infants – a population-based study of 1,390,165 singleton live births in Finland

Sari Räisänen, Mika Gissler, Ulla Sankilampi, Juho Saari, Michael R Kramer, Seppo Heinonen

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Race/Ethnicity, insurance, income and access to care: the influence of health status

Tze-Fang Wang, Leiyu Shi, Xiaoyu Nie, Jinsheng Zhu

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Determinants of antenatal and delivery care utilization in Tigray region, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Yalem Tsegay, Tesfay Gebrehiwot, Isabel Goicolea, Kerstin Edin, Hailemariam Lemma, Miguel San Sebastian

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Does enrollment status in community-based insurance lead to poorer quality of care? Evidence from Burkina Faso

Paul Jacob Robyn, Till Bärnighausen, Aurélia Souares, Germain Savadogo, Brice Bicaba, Ali Sié, Rainer Sauerborn

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Inequality in fertility rate and modern contraceptive use among Ghanaian women from 1988–2008

Benedict O Asamoah, Anette Agardh, Per-Olof Östergren

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Assessing equity of healthcare utilization in rural China: results from nationally representative surveys from 1993 to 2008

Zhongliang Zhou, Yanfang Su, Jianmin Gao, Benjamin Campbell, Zhengwei Zhu, Ling Xu, Yaoguang Zhang

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The effect of Self-Help Groups on access to maternal health services: evidence from rural India

Somen Saha, Peter Leslie Annear, Swati Pathak

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The economic burden of chronic disease care faced by households in Ukraine: a cross-sectional matching study of angina patients

Adrianna Murphy, Ajay Mahal, Erica Richardson, Andrew E Moran

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Equity in the distribution of CT and MRI in China: a panel analysis

Da He, Hao Yu, Yingyao Chen

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Changes in health expenditures in China in 2000s: has the health system reform improved affordability

Qian Long, Ling Xu, Henk Bekedam, Shenglan Tang

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Aboriginal Families Study: a population-based study keeping community and policy goals in mind right from the start

Mary Buckskin, Jackie Ah Kit, Karen Glover, Amanda Mitchell, Roxanne Miller, Donna Weetra, Jan Wiebe, Jane S Yelland, Jonathan Newbury, Jeffrey Robinson, Stephanie J Brown

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Using spatial equity analysis in the process evaluation of environmental interventions to tackle obesity: the healthy towns programme in England

Alice M Dalton, Andrew Jones, David Ogilvie, Mark Petticrew, Martin White, Steven Cummins

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Recruiting equal numbers of indigenous and non-indigenous participants to a ‘polypill’ randomized trial

Vanessa Selak, Sue Crengle, C Raina Elley, Angela Wadham, Matire Harwood, Natasha Rafter, Chris Bullen, Avinesh Pillai, Bruce Arroll, Anthony Rodgers

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Worldwide socioeconomic status and stroke mortality: an ecological study

Sheng Hui Wu, Jean Woo, Xin-Hua Zhang

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Bicycle helmet use and bicycling-related injury among young Canadians: an equity analysis

Colleen M Davison, Michael Torunian, Patricia Walsh, Wendy Thompson, Steve McFaull, William Pickett

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Assessing potential spatial accessibility of health services in rural China: a case study of Donghai county

Ruishan Hu, Suocheng Dong, Yonghong Zhao, Hao Hu, Zehong Li

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Disparities in child mortality trends: what is the evidence from disadvantaged states in India? the case of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh

Kim-Huong Nguyen, Eliana Jimenez-Soto, Prarthna Dayal, Andrew Hodge

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Health inequalities in Ethiopia: modeling inequalities in length of life within and between population groups

Eirik Joakim Tranvåg, Merima Ali, Ole Frithjof Norheim

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Health care payments in the asia pacific: validation of five survey measures of economic burden

Sheila R Reddy, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Alan M Zaslavsky, Stephen B Soumerai, Anita K Wagner

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A decade of improvements in equity of access to reproductive and maternal health services in Cambodia, 2000–2010

Antonia Dingle, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Catherine Goodman

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Determinants of relative and absolute concentration indices: evidence from 26 European countries

Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, Dagný Ósk Ragnarsdóttir

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Short and long term determinants of incident multimorbidity in a cohort of 1988 earthquake survivors in Armenia

Anahit Demirchyan, Vahe Khachadourian, Haroutune K Armenian, Varduhi Petrosyan

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Gender inequalities in occupational health related to the unequal distribution of working and employment conditions: a systematic review

Javier Campos-Serna, Elena Ronda-Pérez, Lucia Artazcoz, Bente E Moen, Fernando G Benavides

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Socioeconomic inequities patterns of multi-morbidity in early adolescence

Kénora Chau, Michèle Baumann, Nearkasen Chau

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Double trouble: the impact of multimorbidity and deprivation on preference-weighted health related quality of life a cross sectional analysis of the Scottish Health Survey

Kenny D Lawson, Stewart W Mercer, Sally Wyke, Eleanor Grieve, Bruce Guthrie, Graham CM Watt, Elisabeth AE Fenwick

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Prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity among tuberculosis patients in Brazil: a cross-sectional study

Bárbara Reis-Santos, Teresa Gomes, Laylla R Macedo, Bernardo L Horta, Lee W Riley, Ethel L Maciel

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Inequalities in multimorbidity in South Africa

John Ele-Ojo Ataguba

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Cardiac rehabilitation barriers by rurality and socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study

Shamila Shanmugasegaram, Paul Oh, Robert D Reid, Treva McCumber, Sherry L Grace

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Disparity in motorcycle helmet use in Thailand

Paibul Suriyawongpaisa, Ammarin Thakkinstian, Aratta Rangpueng, Piyapong Jiwattanakulpaisarn, Pimpa Techakamolsuk

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Sociodemographic data collection for health equity measurement: a mixed methods study examining public opinions

Maritt Kirst, Ketan Shankardass, Sivan Bomze, Aisha Lofters, Carlos Quiñonez

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Time trends in socio-economic inequalities for women and men with disabilities in Australia: evidence of persisting inequalities

Anne M Kavanagh, Lauren Krnjacki, Andrew Beer, Anthony D Lamontagne, Rebecca Bentley

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Benefits and constraints of intimate partnerships for HIV positive sex workers in Kibera, Kenya

Cecilia Benoit, Eric Roth, Helga Hallgrimsdottir, Mikael Jansson, Elizabeth Ngugi, Kimberly Sharpe

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Equity in health care utilization in Chile

Alicia Núñez, Chunhuei Chi

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Multimorbidity and equity in health

Efrat Shadmi

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The social determinants of multimorbidity in South Africa

Olufunke Alaba, Lumbwe Chola

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Taking stock of Myanmar’s progress toward the health-related Millennium Development Goals: current roadblocks, paths ahead

Yu Mon Saw, Khine Lae Win, Laura Wen-Shuan Shiao, Moe Moe Thandar, Rachel M Amiya, Akira Shibanuma, Soe Tun, Masamine Jimba

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Health inequity in the Northern Territory, Australia

Yuejen Zhao, Jiqiong You, Jo Wright, Steven L Guthridge, Andy H Lee

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Closing the poor-rich gap in contraceptive use in urban Kenya: are family planning programs increasingly reaching the urban poor?

Jean Christophe Fotso, Ilene S Speizer, Carol Mukiira, Paul Kizito, Vane Lumumba

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Health related social exclusion in Europe: a multilevel study of the role of welfare generosity

Therese Saltkjel, Espen Dahl, Kjetil A van der Wel

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Waiting times in the ambulatory sector - the case of chronically Ill patients

Leonie Sundmacher, Thomas Kopetsch

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Distribution of selected healthcare resources for influenza pandemic response in Cambodia

Sara U Schwanke Khilji, James W Rudge, Tom Drake, Irwin Chavez, Khieu Borin, Sok Touch, Richard Coker

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Patients’ perceptions of waiting for bariatric surgery: a qualitative study

Deborah M Gregory, Julia Temple Newhook, Laurie K Twells

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Social cohesion matters in health

Ying-Chih Chuang, Kun-Yang Chuang, Tzu-Hsuan Yang

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Ethnic and socio-economic disparities in oral health outcomes and quality of life among Sri Lankan preschoolers: a cross-sectional study

Vajira Nanayakkara, André Renzaho, Brian Oldenburg, Lilani Ekanayake

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Lack of access to health care for African indigents: a social exclusion perspective

Werner Soors, Fahdi Dkhimi, Bart Criel

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Equity in reproductive and maternal health services in Bangladesh

Eyob Zere, Yuki Suehiro, Aminul Arifeen, Loshan Moonesinghe, Sanchoy K Chanda, Joses M Kirigia

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Hepatitis C, mental health and equity of access to antiviral therapy: a systematic narrative review

Julie Hepworth, Tanya Bain, Mieke van Driel

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Barriers in participant recruitment of diverse ethnicities in the state of Kuwait

Sufia Tariq, Catharine A Goddard, Naser Elkum

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Knowledge brokers, companions, and navigators: a qualitative examination of informal caregivers’ roles in medical tourism

Victoria Casey, Valorie A Crooks, Jeremy Snyder, Leigh Turner

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A narrative synthesis of the impact of primary health care delivery models for refugees in resettlement countries on access, quality and coordination

Chandni Joshi, Grant Russell, I-Hao Cheng, Margaret Kay, Kevin Pottie, Margaret Alston, Mitchell Smith, Bibiana Chan, Shiva Vasi, Winston Lo, Sayed Shukrullah Wahidi, Mark F Harris

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Multi-morbidity of non communicable diseases and equity in WHO Eastern Mediterranean countries

Abdesslam Boutayeb, Saber Boutayeb, Wiam Boutayeb