Ausgabe 1/2015
Inhalt (157 Artikel)
How the government intervention affects the distribution of physicians in Turkey between 1965 and 2000
Erdinç Ünal
Refusal to enrol in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: is affordability the problem?
Anthony Kusi, Ulrika Enemark, Kristian S Hansen, Felix A Asante
Exploring the social, emotional and behavioural development of preschool children: is Glasgow different?
Louise Marryat, Lucy Thompson, Helen Minnis, Philip Wilson
Perceived barriers to healthcare for persons living in poverty in Quebec, Canada: the EQUIhealThY project
Christine Loignon, Catherine Hudon, Émilie Goulet, Sophie Boyer, Marianne De Laat, Nathalie Fournier, Cristina Grabovschi, Paula Bush
Socio-economic factors related with the subjective well-being of the rural elderly people living independently in China
Yicheng Zhou, Linyi Zhou, Changluan Fu, You Wang, Qingle Liu, Hongtao Wu, Rongjun Zhang, Linfeng Zheng
A cross sectional survey on social, cultural and economic determinants of obesity in a low middle income setting
Ambepitiyawaduge Pubudu De Silva, Sudirikku Hennadige Padmal De Silva, Rashan Haniffa, Isurujith Kongala Liyanage, Kosala Saroj Amarasiri Jayasinghe, Prasad Katulanda, Chandrika Neelakanthi Wijeratne, Sumedha Wijeratne, Lalini Chandika Rajapakse
A tertiary approach to improving equity in health: quantitative analysis of the Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS) process, 2008–2012
Elana Curtis, Erena Wikaire, Yannan Jiang, Louise McMillan, Rob Loto, Airini, Papaarangi Reid
Catastrophic health expenditures and its inequality in elderly households with chronic disease patients in China
Zhonghua Wang, Xiangjun Li, Mingsheng Chen
Time trends in socio-economic inequalities in the lack of access to dental services among children in Spain 1987-2011
Jaime Pinilla, Miguel A Negrín-Hernández, Ignacio Abásolo
A qualitative study on why did the poorly-educated Chinese elderly fail to attend nurse-led case manager clinic and how to facilitate their attendance
Susanna Lok Lam Hung, Sau Nga Fu, Po Shan Lau, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong
Unexplained health inequality – is it unfair?
Yukiko Asada, Jeremiah Hurley, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Mira Johri
Sex and gender matter in health research: addressing health inequities in health research reporting
Jacqueline Gahagan, Kimberly Gray, Ardath Whynacht
Promoting the inclusion of Afghan women and men in research: reflections from research and community partners involved in implementing a ‘proof of concept’ project
Elisha Riggs, Jane Yelland, Josef Szwarc, Sue Casey, Donna Chesters, Philippa Duell-Piening, Sayed Wahidi, Fatema Fouladi, Stephanie Brown
Public health nurse educators’ conceptualisation of public health as a strategy to reduce health inequalities: a qualitative study
Mzwandile A Mabhala
“Best care on home ground” versus “elitist healthcare”: concerns and competing expectations for medical tourism development in Barbados
Rory Johnston, Krystyna Adams, Lisa Bishop, Valorie A Crooks, Jeremy Snyder
Social determinants of health in the Mixtec and Zapotec community in Ventura County, California
Annette E Maxwell, Sandra Young, Catherine M Crespi, Roena Rabelo Vega, Reggie T Cayetano, Roshan Bastani
Social inequalities in patient-reported outcomes among older multimorbid patients – results of the MultiCare cohort study
Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Horst Bickel, Angela Fuchs, Jochen Gensichen, Susanne Höfels, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König, Karola Mergenthal, Gerhard Schön, Karl Wegscheider, Siegfried Weyerer, Birgitt Wiese, Martin Scherer, Hendrik van den Bussche, Ingmar Schäfer
Perceptions and beliefs of public policymakers in a Southern European city
Joana Morrison, Mariona Pons-Vigués, Elia Díez, Maria Isabel Pasarin, Sergio Salas-Nicás, Carme Borrell
Quality of care for the treatment for uncomplicated malaria in South-East Nigeria: how important is socioeconomic status?
Ogochukwu P Ibe, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Bonnie Cundill, Virginia Wiseman, Benjamin S Uzochukwu, Obinna E Onwujekwe
Erratum: Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review
Corinne Grainger, Anna Gorter, Jerry Okal, Ben Bellows
Participatory health councils and good governance: healthy democracy in Brazil?
Jillian Clare Kohler, Martha Gabriela Martinez
Acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers 2014
Ana Lorena Ruano, Efrat Shadmi, Leiyu Shi
Disparities in diabetes mellitus among Caribbean populations: a scoping review
Nadia R Bennett, Damian K Francis, Trevor S Ferguson, Anselm JM Hennis, Rainford J Wilks, Eon Nigel Harris, Marlene MY MacLeish, Louis W Sullivan
Determinants of immunization inequality among urban poor children: evidence from Nairobi’s informal settlements
Thaddaeus Egondi, Maharouf Oyolola, Martin Kavao Mutua, Patricia Elung’ata
Socioeconomic inequalities and mental stress in individual and regional level: a twenty one cities study in China
Hongmei Wang, Xiaozhao Y Yang, Tingzhong Yang, Randall R Cottrell, Lingwei Yu, Xueying Feng, Shuhan Jiang
Determinants of access to healthcare by older persons in Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Betty Kwagala, James Ntozi
Integrating spatial technology into studying the generational differences of migrants’ health protection status in urban China
Yang Yang, Xing Zhao, PeiYuan Qiu, Xiao Ma, Chih-Ping Chou
Analysing horizontal equity in enrolment in Disease Management Programmes for coronary heart disease in Germany 2008–2010
Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Miguel San Sebastian, Hermann Brenner, Oliver Razum, Werner Maier, Kai-Uwe Saum, Bernd Holleczek, Antje Miksch, Joachim Szecsenyi
Employment status and mental health care use in times of economic contraction: a repeated cross-sectional study in Europe, using a three-level model
Veerle Buffel, Vera van de Straat, Piet Bracke
Travel distance and sociodemographic correlates of potentially avoidable emergency department visits in California, 2006–2010: an observational study
Brian K Chen, James Hibbert, Xi Cheng, Kevin Bennett
Socioeconomic disparities in preventable hospitalization among adults with diabetes in Taiwan: a multilevel modelling approach
Pei-Ching Chen, Ching-Yao Tsai, Lin-Chung Woung, Yue-Chune Lee
Factors influencing the use of maternal healthcare services and childhood immunization in Swaziland
Mluleki Tsawe, Amos Moto, Thendo Netshivhera, Lesego Ralesego, Cassandra Nyathi, A Sathiya Susuman
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in preventable mortality in urban areas of 33 Spanish cities, 1996–2007 (MEDEA project)
Andreu Nolasco, Joaquin Moncho, Jose Antonio Quesada, Inmaculada Melchor, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca, Miguel Angel Martínez-Beneito, Oscar Zurriaga, Mónica Ballesta, Antonio Daponte, Ana Gandarillas, Mª Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Mercè Gotsens, Natividad Izco, Mª Concepción Moreno, Marc Sáez, Carmen Martos, Pablo Sánchez-Villegas, Carme Borrell
The impact of health information technology on disparity of process of care
Jinhyung Lee
Reducing stigma in healthcare and law enforcement: a novel approach to service provision for street level sex workers
Kate Bodkin, Alannah Delahunty-Pike, Tim O’Shea
Study protocol: SWING – social capital and well-being in neighborhoods in Ghent
Wim Hardyns, Veerle Vyncke, Lieven Pauwels, Sara Willems
Differences between Roma and non-Roma in how social support from family and friends helps to overcome health care accessibility problems
Daniela Bobakova, Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska, Ingrid Babinska, Daniel Klein, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Lydia Cislakova
Capital interplays and the self-rated health of young men: results from a cross-sectional study in Switzerland
Gerry Veenstra, Thomas Abel
A cross-sectional study of socio-demographic factors associated with patient access to primary care in Slovenia
Suzana Kert, Igor Švab, Maja Sever, Irena Makivić, Danica Rotar Pavlič
The role of social support and social networks in health information–seeking behavior among Korean Americans: a qualitative study
Wonsun Kim, Gary L Kreps, Cha-Nam Shin
Ideological roadblocks to humanizing dentistry, an evaluative case study of a continuing education course on social determinants of health
Martine C Lévesque, Alissa Levine, Christophe Bedos
Trends and protective factors of female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso: 1999 to 2010
Lana Clara Chikhungu, Nyovani Janet Madise
Cameroon public health sector: shortage and inequalities in geographic distribution of health personnel
Tinyami Erick Tandi, YongMin Cho, Aba Jean-Cluade Akam, Chick Ofilia Afoh, Seung Hun Ryu, Min Seok Choi, KyungHee Kim, Jae Wook Choi
Older Brazilian women’s experience of psychological domestic violence: a social phenomenological study
Rafaella Queiroga Souto, Miriam Aparecida Barbosa Merighi, Sepali Guruge, Maria Cristina Pinto de Jesus
Primary care quality between Traditional Tibetan Medicine and Western Medicine Hospitals: a pilot assessment in Tibet
Wenhua Wang, Leiyu Shi, Aitian Yin, Zongfu Mao, Elizabeth Maitland, Stephen Nicholas, Xiaoyun Liu
Catastrophic health expenditure and its determinants in Kenya slum communities
Steven Buigut, Remare Ettarh, Djesika D Amendah
The social context of severe child malnutrition: a qualitative household case study from a rural area of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Hallgeir Kismul, Anne Hatløy, Peter Andersen, Mala Mapatano, Jan Van den Broeck, Karen Marie Moland
The public health impact of economic fluctuations in a Latin American country: mortality and the business cycle in Colombia in the period 1980–2010
Ivan Arroyave, Philipp Hessel, Alex Burdorf, Jesus Rodriguez-Garcia, Doris Cardona, Mauricio Avendaño
Critical examination of knowledge to action models and implications for promoting health equity
Colleen M. Davison, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Connie Clement
Multimorbidity and its social determinants among older people in southern provinces, Vietnam
Ninh Thi Ha, Ninh Hoang Le, Vishnu Khanal, Rachael Moorin
How an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care service improved access to mental health care
Julie Hepworth, Deborah Askew, Wendy Foley, Deb Duthie, Patricia Shuter, Michelle Combo, Lesley-Ann Clements
A systematic review of barriers to optimal outpatient specialist services for individuals with prevalent chronic diseases: what are the unique and common barriers experienced by patients in high income countries?
Elizabeth A. Fradgley, Christine L. Paul, Jamie Bryant
Determinants of out-of-pocket health expenditure on children: an analysis of the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort
Marcelo Torres da Silva, Aluísio J. D. Barros, Andréa D. Bertoldi, Paulo de Andrade Jacinto, Alicia Matijasevich, Iná S. Santos, Cesar Augusto Oviedo Tejada
Synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence on non-financial access barriers: implications for assessment at the district level
Thomas S. O’Connell, K. Juliet A. Bedford, Michael Thiede, Di McIntyre
Mortality, material deprivation and urbanization: exploring the social patterns of a metropolitan area
Paula Santana, Claudia Costa, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Mercè Gotsens, Carme Borrell
Universal health care and equity: evidence of maternal health based on an analysis of demographic and household survey data
Sarah Neal, Andrew Amos Channon, Sarah Carter, Jane Falkingham
Income-related inequalities in health care utilization in Mongolia, 2007/2008–2012
Javkhlanbayar Dorjdagva, Enkhjargal Batbaatar, Bayarsaikhan Dorjsuren, Jussi Kauhanen
Urban-rural inequality regarding drug prescriptions in primary care facilities – a pre-post comparison of the National Essential Medicines Scheme of China
Qiang Yao, Chaojie Liu, J. Adamm Ferrier, Zhiyong Liu, Ju Sun
Health care utilization in older people with cardiovascular disease in China
Lixia Dou, Xiaoyun Liu, Tuohong Zhang, Yangfeng Wu
Usual source of care and the quality of primary care: a survey of patients in Guangdong province, China
Zhicheng Du, Yu Liao, Chien-Chou Chen, Yuantao Hao, Ruwei Hu
Disadvantaged children at greater relative risk of thinness (as well as obesity): a secondary data analysis of the England National Child Measurement Programme and the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Anna Pearce, Emeline Rougeaux, Catherine Law
Microcredit participation and women’s health: results from a cross-sectional study in Peru
Rita Hamad, Lia C. H. Fernald
Varied utilisation of health provision by Arab and Jewish residents in Israel
Jo Southern, Hector Roizin, Muhannad Daana, Carmit Rubin, Samantha Hasleton, Adi Cohen, Aviva Goral, Galia Rahav, Meir Raz, Gili Regev-Yochay
The relationship between socioeconomic indicators during pregnancy and gynecological appointment at any time after childbirth
Alexandre Faisal-Cury, Julieta Quayle, Tatiana Marques, Paulo Rossi Menezes, Alicia Matijasevich
Client/patient perceptions of achieving equity in primary health care: a mixed methods study
Sharareh Akhavan, Per Tillgren
A cohort study: temporal trends in prevalence of antecedents, comorbidities and mortality in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians with first heart failure hospitalization, 2000–2009
Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Judith M. Katzenellenbogen, Joseph Hung, Matthew Knuiman, Frank M. Sanfilippo, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Dawn Bessarab, Michael Hobbs, Sandra C. Thompson
Spatial inequity in access to healthcare facilities at a county level in a developing country: a case study of Deqing County, Zhejiang, China
Cheng Jin, Jianquan Cheng, Yuqi Lu, Zhenfang Huang, Fangdong Cao
“A Somali girl is Muslim and does not have premarital sex. Is vaccination really necessary?” A qualitative study into the perceptions of Somali women in the Netherlands about the prevention of cervical cancer
Jihan Salad, Petra Verdonk, Fijgje de Boer, Tineke A. Abma
Factors associated with avoidable hospitalisation of children younger than 2 years old: the 2006 Brazilian National Demographic Health Survey
Tulio Konstantyner, Laís Amaral Mais, José A. A. C. Taddei
Equally able, but unequally accepted: Gender differentials and experiences of community health volunteers promoting maternal, newborn, and child health in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Isabelle Feldhaus, Marissa Silverman, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Rose Mpembeni, Idda Mosha, Dereck Chitama, Diwakar Mohan, Joy J. Chebet, David Urassa, Charles Kilewo, Marya Plotkin, Giulia Besana, Helen Semu, Abdullah H. Baqui, Peter J. Winch, Japhet Killewo, Asha S. George
Social determinants of health inequalities: towards a theoretical perspective using systems science
Saroj Jayasinghe
Complicating the dominant morality discourse: mothers and fathers’ constructions of substance use during pregnancy and early parenthood
Cecilia Benoit, Samantha Magnus, Rachel Phillips, Lenora Marcellus, Sinéad Charbonneau
How to improve the equity of health financial sources? - Simulation and analysis of total health expenditure of one Chinese province on system dynamics
Xin Wang, Yuanling Sun, Xin Mu, Li Guan, Jingjie Li
Impact of an integrated community case management programme on uptake of appropriate diarrhoea and pneumonia treatments in Uganda: A propensity score matching and equity analysis study
Agnes Nanyonjo, James Ssekitooleko, Helen Counihan, Frederick Makumbi, Göran Tomson, Karin Källander
Inequalities in suicide mortality rates and the economic recession in the municipalities of Catalonia, Spain
Carme Saurina, Manel Marzo, Marc Saez
An age-period-cohort analysis of female breast cancer mortality from 1990–2009 in China
Chunhui Li, Chuanhua Yu, Peigang Wang
Paving the way for universal family planning coverage in Ethiopia: an analysis of wealth related inequality
Muluneh Yigzaw, David Zakus, Yehualashet Tadesse, Muluked Desalegn, Mesganaw Fantahun
Feasibility and acceptability of patient partnership to improve access to primary care for the physical health of patients with severe mental illnesses: an interactive guide
Jean-François Pelletier, Alain Lesage, Christine Boisvert, Frédéric Denis, Jean-Pierre Bonin, Steve Kisely
Investigating determinants of catastrophic health spending among poorly insured elderly households in urban Nigeria
Olumide Adisa
Health care financing and the sustainability of health systems
Lycourgos Liaropoulos, Ilias Goranitis
Towards health equity: a framework for the application of proportionate universalism
Gemma Carey, Brad Crammond, Evelyne De Leeuw
Equity of access under Korean national long-term care insurance: implications for long-term care reform
Ju Moon Park
Shrinking the language accessibility gap: a mixed methods evaluation of telephone interpretation services in a large, diverse urban health care system
Tatiana Dowbor, Suzanne Zerger, Cheryl Pedersen, Kimberly Devotta, Rachel Solomon, Kendyl Dobbin, Patricia O’Campo
Inequity in costs of seeking sexual and reproductive health services in India and Kenya
Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström, Yves Lafort, Mags Beksinska, Letitia Rambally, Anuradha Roy, Sushena Reza-Paul, Wilkister Ombidi, Peter Gichangi, Jolene Skordis-Worrall
Quality of life of young clinical doctors in public hospitals in China’s developed cities as measured by the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP)
Ying Liang, Hanwei Wang, Xiaojun Tao
Towards universal health coverage for reproductive health services in Ethiopia: two policy recommendations
Kristine Husøy Onarheim, Mieraf Taddesse, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Muna Abdullah, Ingrid Miljeteig
A cross-sectional investigation of parenting style and friendship as mediators of the relation between social class and mental health in a university community
Mark Rubin, Benjamin M. Kelly
Influence of social experiences in shaping perceptions of the Ebola virus among African residents of Hong Kong during the 2014 outbreak: a qualitative study
Judy Yuen-man Siu
Cultural competency training of GP Registrars-exploring the views of GP Supervisors
Kelly Watt, Penny Abbott, Jenny Reath
Community health centers and primary care access and quality for chronically-ill patients – a case-comparison study of urban Guangdong Province, China
Leiyu Shi, De-Chih Lee, Hailun Liang, Luwen Zhang, Marty Makinen, Nathan Blanchet, Ruth Kidane, Magnus Lindelow, Hong Wang, Shaolong Wu
Integrating views on support for mid-level health worker performance: a concept mapping study with regional health system actors in rural Guatemala
Alison R. Hernández, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Kjerstin Dahlblom, Miguel San Sebastián
Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E 2012): explanation and elaboration
Vivian Welch, Mark Petticrew, Jennifer Petkovic, David Moher, Elizabeth Waters, Howard White, Peter Tugwell
The relationship between socioeconomic status/income and prevalence of diabetes and associated conditions: A cross-sectional population-based study in Saskatchewan, Canada
Yelena Bird, Mark Lemstra, Marla Rogers, John Moraros
Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis
Alice Sanwald, Engelbert Theurl
Understanding the impact of the economic crisis on child health: the case of Spain
Luis Rajmil, Arjumand Siddiqi, David Taylor-Robinson, Nick Spencer
Community perspectives on food insecurity and obesity: Focus groups with caregivers of Métis and Off-reserve First Nations children
Jasmin Bhawra, Martin J. Cooke, Rhona Hanning, Piotr Wilk, Shelley L. H. Gonneville
Johan Mackenbach, awarded an honorary doctorate for his work on health inequalities, in a discussion of burning issues in tackling health inequalities
Vincent Lorant, William D’Hoore
Integrated care delivery and health care seeking by chronically-ill patients – a case-control study of rural Henan province, China
Leiyu Shi, Marty Makinen, De-Chih Lee, Ruth Kidane, Nathan Blanchet, Hailun Liang, Jinghua Li, Magnus Lindelow, Hong Wang, Shuangbao Xie, Jian Wu
Determinants of willingness to pay for the retreatment of insecticide treated mosquito nets in rural area of eastern Ethiopia
Sibhatu Biadgilign, Ayalu Aklilu Reda, Haji Kedir
Trends and outcomes in the utilization of laparoscopic appendectomies in a low-income population in Taiwan from 2003 to 2011
Kai-Biao Lin, K. Robert Lai, Nan-Ping Yang, Ke-Shou Wu, Hsien-Wei Ting, Ren-Hao Pan, Chien-Lung Chan
The influence of socioeconomic status on future risk for developing Type 2 diabetes in the Canadian population between 2011 and 2022: differential associations by sex
Laura A. Rivera, Michael Lebenbaum, Laura C. Rosella
The individual, the government and the global community: sharing responsibility for health post-2015 in Vanuatu, a small island developing state
Claire Ibell, Simon A. Sheridan, Peter S. Hill, John Tasserei, Marie-France Maleb, Jean-Jacques Rory
Development and validation of the Australian Aboriginal racial identity and self-esteem survey for 8–12 year old children (IRISE_C)
CS Kickett-Tucker, D. Christensen, D. Lawrence, SR Zubrick, DJ Johnson, F. Stanley
Erratum to: Investigating determinants of catastrophic health spending among poorly insured elderly households in urban Nigeria
Olumide Adisa
The relevance of timing of illness and death events in the household life cycle for coping outcomes in rural Uganda in the era of HIV
Jovita Amurwon, Flora Hajdu, Janet Seeley
A spatial equity analysis of a public health intervention: a case study of an outdoor walking group provider within local authorities in England
Sarah Hanson, Andy Jones
Contribution of primary care to health: an individual level analysis from Tibet, China
Wenhua Wang, Leiyu Shi, Aitian Yin, Zongfu Mao, Elizabeth Maitland, Stephen Nicholas, Xiaoyun Liu
Effects of individual immigrant attitudes and host culture attitudes on doctor-immigrant patient relationships and communication in Canada
Amanda Whittal, Ellen Rosenberg
Colon cancer care and survival: income and insurance are more predictive in the USA, community primary care physician supply more so in Canada
Kevin M. Gorey, Sindu M. Kanjeekal, Frances C. Wright, Caroline Hamm, Isaac N. Luginaah, Emma Bartfay, Guangyong Zou, Eric J. Holowaty, Nancy L. Richter
Is utilization of health services for HIV patients equal by socioeconomic status? Evidence from the Basque country
Manuel García-Goñi, Roberto Nuño-Solinís, Juan F. Orueta, Francesco Paolucci
Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available?
Susan L. Thomas, John Wakerman, John S. Humphreys
Affordability of health care under publicly subsidized insurance after Massachusetts health care reform: a qualitative study of safety net patients
Leah Zallman, Rachel Nardin, Monica Malowney, Assaad Sayah, Danny McCormick
Perceived affordability of health insurance and medical financial burdens five years in to Massachusetts health reform
Leah Zallman, Rachel Nardin, Assaad Sayah, Danny McCormick
Does a pay-for-performance program for primary care physicians alleviate health inequity in childhood vaccination rates?
Alan Katz, Jennifer Emily Enns, Dan Chateau, Lisa Lix, Doug Jutte, Jeanette Edwards, Marni Brownell, Colleen Metge, Nathan Nickel, Carole Taylor, Elaine Burland
Barriers in household access to medicines for chronic conditions in three Latin American countries
Isabel Cristina Martins Emmerick, Vera Lucia Luiza, Luiz Antonio Bastos Camacho, Catherine Vialle-Valentin, Dennis Ross-Degnan
Cross-national comparison of socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in the United States and Canada
Arjumand Siddiqi, Rashida Brown, Quynh C. Nguyen, Rachel Loopstra, Ichiro Kawachi
The role of income inequality and social policies on income-related health inequalities in Europe
Regina Jutz
Social capital and active membership in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme - a mixed method study
Christine J. Fenenga, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Alice Ogink, Daniel K. Arhinful, Wouter Poortinga, Inge Hutter
How substandard dwellings and housing affordability problems are associated with poor health in a vulnerable population during the economic recession of the late 2000s
Ana M. Novoa, Julia Ward, Davide Malmusi, Fernando Díaz, Mercè Darnell, Carme Trilla, Jordi Bosch, Carme Borrell
Unemployment and health selection in diverging economic conditions: Compositional changes? Evidence from 28 European countries
Kristian Heggebø, Espen Dahl
Addressing unresolved tensions to build effective partnerships: lessons from an Aboriginal cancer support network
Beatriz Cuesta-Briand, Dawn Bessarab, Shaouli Shahid, Sandra C. Thompson
Inequalities in mortality by socioeconomic factors and Roma ethnicity in the two biggest cities in Slovakia: a multilevel analysis
Katarina Rosicova, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Roy E. Stewart, Martin Rosic, Johan W. Groothoff, Jitse P. van Dijk
Inequalities in medicine use in Central Eastern Europe: an empirical investigation of socioeconomic determinants in eight countries
Sabine Vogler, August Österle, Susanne Mayer
Disparities in hypertension among black Caribbean populations: a scoping review by the U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR)
Aurelian Bidulescu, Damian K. Francis, Trevor S. Ferguson, Nadia R. Bennett, Anselm J. M. Hennis, Rainford Wilks, Eon N. Harris, Marlene MacLeish, Louis W. Sullivan
From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh
Sameera Hussain, Ana Lorena Ruano, Atiya Rahman, Sabina Faiz Rashid, Peter S. Hill
A population-based analysis of use and outcomes of laparoscopic bariatric surgery across socioeconomic groups in Taiwan
Chun-Che Huang, Yu-Tung Huang, Chong-Chi Chiu
Health care utilization and costs among medical-aid enrollees, the poor not enrolled in medical-aid, and the near poor in South Korea
Jae Woo Choi, Eun-Cheol Park, Sung-Youn Chun, Kyu-Tae Han, Euna Han, Tae Hyun Kim
Integrating traditional indigenous medicine and western biomedicine into health systems: a review of Nicaraguan health policies and miskitu health services
Heather Carrie, Tim K. Mackey, Sloane N. Laird
Care seeking pathways of older adults with hip fracture in India: exploratory study protocol
Abha Tewari, Kirti Sundar Sahu, Lalit Yadav, Sanghamitra Pati, Srinivas Nallala, Premilla Webster, Robyn Norton, Santosh Rath
Social inequality in morbidity, framed within the current economic crisis in Spain
A.R. Zapata Moya, V. Buffel, C.J. Navarro Yáñez, P. Bracke
Socioeconomic hierarchy and health gradient in Europe: the role of income inequality and of social origins
Louis Chauvel, Anja K. Leist
Analysing implementer narratives on addressing health inequity through convergent action on the social determinants of health in India
Devaki Nambiar, Arundati Muralidharan, Samir Garg, Nayreen Daruwalla, Prathibha Ganesan
Chronic diseases among the elderly in a rural Vietnam: prevalence, associated socio-demographic factors and healthcare expenditures
Jonathan Mwangi, Asli Kulane, Le Van Hoi
Eye Care Quality and Accessibility Improvement in the Community (EQUALITY) for adults at risk for glaucoma: study rationale and design
Cynthia Owsley, Lindsay A. Rhodes, Gerald McGwin Jr., Stephen T. Mennemeyer, Mary Bregantini, Nita Patel, Demond M. Wiley, Frank LaRussa, Dan Box, Jinan Saaddine, John E. Crews, Christopher A. Girkin
Primary care visits due to injuries among the Aboriginal off-reserve population of British Columbia, Canada, 1991–2010
Andrew Jin, M. Anne George, Mariana Brussoni, Christopher E. Lalonde, Rod McCormick
The mediating effect of discrimination, social support and hopelessness on self-rated health of Roma adolescents in Slovakia
Peter Kolarcik, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Jitse P. Van Dijk
Bringing stakeholders together for urban health equity: hallmarks of a compromised process
Amy S. Katz, Rebecca M. Cheff, Patricia O’Campo
The impact of primary healthcare reform on equity of utilization of services in the province of Quebec: a 2003–2010 follow-up
Marie-Jo Ouimet, Raynald Pineault, Alexandre Prud’homme, Sylvie Provost, Michel Fournier, Jean-Frédéric Levesque
Importance of physical health and health-behaviors in adolescence for risk of dropout from secondary education in young adulthood: an 8-year prospective study
Erla Svansdottir, Sigurbjorn A. Arngrimsson, Thorarinn Sveinsson, Erlingur Johannsson
An explorative cross-sectional study examining self-reported health and nutritional status of disadvantaged people using food banks in Germany
Julia Depa, Carolin Hilzendegen, Peter Tinnemann, Nanette Stroebele-Benschop
Mortality differences and inequalities within and between ‘protected characteristics’ groups, in a Scottish Cohort 1991–2009
A. D Millard, G. Raab, J. Lewsey, P. Eaglesham, P. Craig, K. Ralston, G. McCartney
Poverty identification for a pro-poor health insurance scheme in Tanzania: reliability and multi-level stakeholder perceptions
August Kuwawenaruwa, Jitihada Baraka, Kate Ramsey, Fatuma Manzi, Ben Bellows, Josephine Borghi
Perceived discrimination among Maghrebi users of health services in Tarragona (Spain)
Lourdes Rubio-Rico, Alba Roca-Biosca, Inmaculada de Molina-Fernández
The impact of the experience of childhood poverty on adult health-risk behaviors in Japan: a mediation analysis
Maki Umeda, Takashi Oshio, Mayu Fujii
Characterizing the vulnerability of frequent emergency department users by applying a conceptual framework: a controlled, cross-sectional study
Patrick Bodenmann, Stéphanie Baggio, Katia Iglesias, Fabrice Althaus, Venetia-Sofia Velonaki, Stephanie Stucki, Corine Ansermet, Sophie Paroz, Lionel Trueb, Olivier Hugli, Judith L. Griffin, Jean-Bernard Daeppen
A tale of two epidemics: gender differences in socio-demographic characteristics and sexual behaviors among HIV positive individuals in Mexico City
Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Edson Servan-Mori, Fenella Beynon, Andrea González, Patricia Volkow
Exploring policy driven systemic inequities leading to differential access to care among Indigenous populations with obstructive sleep apnea in Canada
Gregory P. Marchildon, Tarun R. Katapally, Caroline A. Beck, Sylvia Abonyi, JoAnn Episkenew, Punam Pahwa PhD, James A. Dosman
How the economic recession has changed the likelihood of reporting poor self-rated health in Spain
Elena Arroyo, Gemma Renart, Marc Saez
Analysis of the equity of emergency medical services: a cross-sectional survey in Chongqing city
Yalan Liu, Yi Jiang, Shenglan Tang, Jingfu Qiu, Xiaoni Zhong, Yang Wang
Are pre-school girls more likely to be under-nourished in rural Thatta, Pakistan?-a cross-sectional study
Rozina Nuruddin, Wilbur C. Hadden
EQUIP Healthcare: An overview of a multi-component intervention to enhance equity-oriented care in primary health care settings
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Interventions in Primary Care and their contributions to improving equity in health
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Explaining differences in education-related inequalities in health between urban and rural areas in Mongolia
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Using decision trees for measuring gender equity in the timing of angiography in patients with acute coronary syndrome: a novel approach to equity analysis
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Labor and delivery service use: indigenous women’s preference and the health sector response in the Chiapas Highlands of Mexico
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Non-attendance of mammographic screening: the roles of age and municipality in a population-based Swedish sample
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