Ausgabe 1/2013
Inhalt (95 Artikel)
Perceived barriers in accessing food among recent Latin American immigrants in Toronto
Mandana Vahabi, Cynthia Damba
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
Equity and the Sun Quality Health Private Provider Social Franchise: comparative analysis of patient survey data and a nationally representative TB prevalence survey
Dominic Montagu, May Sudhinaraset, Thandar Lwin, Ikushi Onozaki, Zaw Win, Tin Aung
Keep going in adversity – using a resilience perspective to understand the narratives of long-term social assistance recipients in Sweden
Anneli Marttila, Eva Johansson, Margaret Whitehead, Bo Burström
Trends in racial/ethnic disparities in medical and oral health, access to care, and use of services in US children: has anything changed over the years?
Glenn Flores, Hua Lin
Factors influencing attendance in a structured physical activity program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in an urban setting: a mixed methods process evaluation
Karla J Canuto, Belinda Spagnoletti, Robyn A McDermott, Margaret Cargo
Vertical equity of healthcare in Taiwan: health services were distributed according to need
Shiow-Ing Wang, Chih-Liang Yaung
Equity of the premium of the Ghanaian national health insurance scheme and the implications for achieving universal coverage
Eugenia Amporfu
Redistributive effects of the National Health Insurance on physicians in Taiwan: a natural experiment time series study
Chiang-Hsing Yang, Yu-Tung A Huang, Ya-Seng A Hsueh
Applying a gender lens on human papillomavirus infection: cervical cancer screening, HPV DNA testing, and HPV vaccination
Ivan Branković, Petra Verdonk, Ineke Klinge
Development and trialling of a tool to support a systems approach to improve social determinants of health in rural and remote Australian communities: the healthy community assessment tool
Elizabeth L McDonald, Ross Bailie, Thomas Michel
An exploratory study of the policy process and early implementation of the free NHIS coverage for pregnant women in Ghana
Sophie Witter, Bertha Garshong, Valéry Ridde
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
Understanding the impacts of medical tourism on health human resources in Barbados: a prospective, qualitative study of stakeholder perceptions
Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A Crooks, Leigh Turner, Rory Johnston
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
Investigating the role of health care at birth on inequalities in neonatal survival: evidence from Bangladesh
Sarah E Neal, Zoë Matthews
Patient-centred access to health care: conceptualising access at the interface of health systems and populations
Jean-Frederic Levesque, Mark F Harris, Grant Russell
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
“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
Assessing equity in health care through the national health insurance schemes of Nigeria and Ghana: a review-based comparative analysis
IsaacAO Odeyemi, John Nixon
The impact of socioeconomic status on changes in the general and mental health of women over time: evidence from a longitudinal study of Australian women
Jennifer Stewart Williams, Michelle Cunich, Julie Byles
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
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
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
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
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
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
Race/Ethnicity, insurance, income and access to care: the influence of health status
Tze-Fang Wang, Leiyu Shi, Xiaoyu Nie, Jinsheng Zhu
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
Social capital in relation to alcohol consumption, smoking, and illicit drug use among adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Sweden
Cecilia Åslund, Kent W Nilsson
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
Inequality in fertility rate and modern contraceptive use among Ghanaian women from 1988–2008
Benedict O Asamoah, Anette Agardh, Per-Olof Östergren
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
The use of the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) in indigenous healthcare: a systematic literature review
Vanessa M Alford, Louisa J Remedios, Gillian R Webb, Shaun Ewen
The effect of Self-Help Groups on access to maternal health services: evidence from rural India
Somen Saha, Peter Leslie Annear, Swati Pathak
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
Equity in the distribution of CT and MRI in China: a panel analysis
Da He, Hao Yu, Yingyao Chen
Changes in health expenditures in China in 2000s: has the health system reform improved affordability
Qian Long, Ling Xu, Henk Bekedam, Shenglan Tang
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
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
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
Worldwide socioeconomic status and stroke mortality: an ecological study
Sheng Hui Wu, Jean Woo, Xin-Hua Zhang
Health inequalities as a foundation for embodying knowledge within public health teaching: a qualitative study
Mzwandile A Mabhala
Patterns and correlates of self-reported racial discrimination among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults, 2008–09: analysis of national survey data
Joan Cunningham, Yin C Paradies
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
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
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
Health insurance in Ghana: evaluation of policy holders’ perceptions and factors influencing policy renewal in the Volta region
Daniel Boateng, Dadson Awunyor-Vitor
Health inequalities in Ethiopia: modeling inequalities in length of life within and between population groups
Eirik Joakim Tranvåg, Merima Ali, Ole Frithjof Norheim
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
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
Physical activity among Norwegian adolescents- a multilevel analysis of how place of residence is associated with health behaviour: the Young-HUNT study
Brit Logstein, Arild Blekesaune, Reidar Almås
Determinants of relative and absolute concentration indices: evidence from 26 European countries
Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, Dagný Ósk Ragnarsdóttir
A systematic review of the relationships between social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in health: a contribution to understanding the psychosocial pathway of health inequalities
Eleonora P Uphoff, Kate E Pickett, Baltica Cabieses, Neil Small, John Wright
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
Socio-economic position and childhood multimorbidity: a study using linkage between the Avon Longitudinal study of parents and children and the general practice research database
Rosie P Cornish, Andy Boyd, Tjeerd Van Staa, Chris Salisbury, John Macleod
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
Socioeconomic inequities patterns of multi-morbidity in early adolescence
Kénora Chau, Michèle Baumann, Nearkasen Chau
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
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
Residential movement patterns of families of young children with chronic conditions in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study
Eyal Cohen, Nicole Yantzi, Jun Guan, Kelvin Lam, Astrid Guttmann
The influence of socio-economic status and multimorbidity patterns on healthcare costs: a six-year follow-up under a universal healthcare system
Raymond N Kuo, Mei-Shu Lai
“Everyone just keeps their eyes closed and their fingers crossed”: Sexual health communication among black parents and children in Nova Scotia, Canada
Antoinette N Davis, Jacqueline C Gahagan, Clemon George
Cardiac rehabilitation barriers by rurality and socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study
Shamila Shanmugasegaram, Paul Oh, Robert D Reid, Treva McCumber, Sherry L Grace
Disparity in motorcycle helmet use in Thailand
Paibul Suriyawongpaisa, Ammarin Thakkinstian, Aratta Rangpueng, Piyapong Jiwattanakulpaisarn, Pimpa Techakamolsuk
Sociodemographic data collection for health equity measurement: a mixed methods study examining public opinions
Maritt Kirst, Ketan Shankardass, Sivan Bomze, Aisha Lofters, Carlos Quiñonez
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
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
The social determinants of multimorbidity in South Africa
Olufunke Alaba, Lumbwe Chola
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
Health inequity in the Northern Territory, Australia
Yuejen Zhao, Jiqiong You, Jo Wright, Steven L Guthridge, Andy H Lee
Targeting patients for multimorbid care management interventions: the case for equity in high-risk patient identification
Efrat Shadmi, Tobias Freund
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
Why are pro-poor exemption policies in Tanzania better implemented in some districts than in others?
Stephen O Maluka
Health related social exclusion in Europe: a multilevel study of the role of welfare generosity
Therese Saltkjel, Espen Dahl, Kjetil A van der Wel
Waiting times in the ambulatory sector - the case of chronically Ill patients
Leonie Sundmacher, Thomas Kopetsch
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
Patients’ perceptions of waiting for bariatric surgery: a qualitative study
Deborah M Gregory, Julia Temple Newhook, Laurie K Twells
The national employment guarantee scheme and inequities in household spending on food and non-food determinants of health in rural India
TR Dilip, Rakhi Dandona, Lalit Dandona
Involving traditional birth attendants in emergency obstetric care in Tanzania: policy implications of a study of their knowledge and practices in Kigoma Rural District
Dismas B Vyagusa, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Melchiory Masatu
Social cohesion matters in health
Ying-Chih Chuang, Kun-Yang Chuang, Tzu-Hsuan Yang
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
Lack of access to health care for African indigents: a social exclusion perspective
Werner Soors, Fahdi Dkhimi, Bart Criel
Equity in reproductive and maternal health services in Bangladesh
Eyob Zere, Yuki Suehiro, Aminul Arifeen, Loshan Moonesinghe, Sanchoy K Chanda, Joses M Kirigia
Hepatitis C, mental health and equity of access to antiviral therapy: a systematic narrative review
Julie Hepworth, Tanya Bain, Mieke van Driel
Barriers in participant recruitment of diverse ethnicities in the state of Kuwait
Sufia Tariq, Catharine A Goddard, Naser Elkum
Knowledge brokers, companions, and navigators: a qualitative examination of informal caregivers’ roles in medical tourism
Victoria Casey, Valorie A Crooks, Jeremy Snyder, Leigh Turner
Literacy and healthcare-seeking among women with low educational attainment: analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2011 Nepal demographic and health survey
Yukyan Lam, Elena T Broaddus, Pamela J Surkan
Influence of mhealth interventions on gender relations in developing countries: a systematic literature review
Larissa Jennings, Laina Gagliardi
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
Multi-morbidity of non communicable diseases and equity in WHO Eastern Mediterranean countries
Abdesslam Boutayeb, Saber Boutayeb, Wiam Boutayeb