Ausgabe 1/2016
Inhalt (205 Artikel)
Individual-level changes in self-rated health before and during the economic crisis in Europe
Dawit Shawel Abebe, Anne Grete Tøge, Espen Dahl
Medical care ideals among urban and rural residents in Thailand: a qualitative study
Tomoki Ikai, Saowalak Yamtree, Takuji Takemoto, Taro Tamura, Hitomi Kanayama, Kazuhiro Sato, Yukinori Kusaka, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Hidekazu Terasawa
Disparities in socioeconomic status and neighborhood characteristics affect all-cause mortality in patients with newly diagnosed hypertension in Korea: a nationwide cohort study, 2002–2013
Kyoung Hee Cho, Sang Gyu Lee, Chung Mo Nam, Eun Jung Lee, Suk-Yong Jang, Seon-Heui Lee, Eun-Cheol Park
Aboriginal Health Worker perceptions of oral health: a qualitative study in Perth, Western Australia
Angela Durey, Dan McAullay, Barry Gibson, Linda Slack-Smith
Towards elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Ghana: an analysis of national programme data
P. Dako-Gyeke, B. Dornoo, S. Ayisi Addo, M. Atuahene, N. A. Addo, A. E. Yawson
What is the scope of improving immigrant and ethnic minority healthcare using community navigators: A systematic scoping review
Nusrat Sharmeen Shommu, Salim Ahmed, Nahid Rumana, Gary R. S. Barron, Kerry Alison McBrien, Tanvir Chowdhury Turin
“We’re checking them out”: Indigenous and non-Indigenous research participants’ accounts of deciding to be involved in research
Marilys Guillemin, Lynn Gillam, Emma Barnard, Paul Stewart, Hannah Walker, Doreen Rosenthal
Measuring health inequities in low and middle income countries for the development of observatories on inequities and social determinants of health
German Guerra, Elis Borde, V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder
Inequity in waiting for cataract surgery - an analysis of data from the Swedish National Cataract Register
Goldina Smirthwaite, Mats Lundström, Barbro Wijma, Nina Lykke, Katarina Swahnberg
The physical health of British adults with intellectual disability: cross sectional study
Eric Emerson, Chris Hatton, Susannah Baines, Janet Robertson
Perception and utilization of public health services in Southeast Nigeria: Implication for health care in communities with different degrees of urbanization
Nkechi G. Onyeneho, Uche V. Amazigo, Ngozi A. Njepuome, Obioma C. Nwaorgu, Joseph C. Okeibunor
Who uses NHS health checks? Investigating the impact of ethnicity and gender and method of invitation on uptake of NHS health checks
Erica J. Cook, Chloe Sharp, Gurch Randhawa, Andy Guppy, Raj Gangotra, Jonathon Cox
Children of boom and recession and the scars to the mental health – a comparative study on the long term effects of youth unemployment
Pekka Virtanen, Anne Hammarström, Urban Janlert
Assessing equity in benefit distribution of government health subsidy in 2012 across East China: benefit incidence analysis
Mingsheng Chen, Andrew J. Palmer, Lei Si
Evidence and knowledge gaps on the disease burden in sexual and gender minorities: a review of systematic reviews
Karel Blondeel, Lale Say, Doris Chou, Igor Toskin, Rajat Khosla, Elisa Scolaro, Marleen Temmerman
The impact of the Great Recession on mental health and its inequalities: the case of a Southern European region, 1997–2013
Amaia Bacigalupe, Santiago Esnaola, Unai Martín
Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health: measurement approaches and challenges
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Kerry L. M. Wong, Ties Boerma, Cesar G. Victora
Actions on social determinants and interventions in primary health to improve mother and child health and health equity in Morocco
Wiam Boutayeb, Mohamed Lamlili, Abdellatif Maamri, Souad Ben El Mostafa, Abdesslam Boutayeb
Erratum to: 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
Provider, father, and bro – Sedentary Māori men and their thoughts on physical activity
Isaac Warbrick, Denise Wilson, Amohia Boulton
Retirement and perceived social inferiority strongly link with health inequalities in older age: decomposition of a concentration index of poor health based on Polish cross-sectional data
Zuzanna Drożdżak, Konrad Turek
Strengthening national capacities for researching on Social Determinants of Health (SDH) towards informing and addressing health inequities in Tanzania
Sally Mtenga, Irene M. Masanja, Masuma Mamdani
Equity in children’s dental caries before and after cessation of community water fluoridation: differential impact by dental insurance status and geographic material deprivation
Lindsay McLaren, Deborah A. McNeil, Melissa Potestio, Steve Patterson, Salima Thawer, Peter Faris, Congshi Shi, Luke Shwart
Narrative review of women’s health in Iran: challenges and successes
Hassan Joulaei, Najmeh Maharlouei, Kamran Bagheri lankarani, Alireza Razzaghi, Maryam Akbari
Connecting the dots on health inequalities – a systematic review on the social determinants of health in Portugal
Inês Campos-Matos, Giuliano Russo, Julian Perelman
Trends in equity in use of maternal health services in urban and rural Bangladesh
Nahid Kamal, Sian Curtis, Mohammad S. Hasan, Kanta Jamil
Low level of attention to health inequalities in prevention planning activities of the Italian Regions
Corrado De Vito, Azzurra Massimi, Domitilla Di Thiene, Annalisa Rosso, Elvira D’Andrea, Maria Rosaria Vacchio, Paolo Villari, Carolina Marzuillo
Adolescents’ smoking experiences, family structure, parental smoking and socio-economic status in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Yelena Bird, Hugo Staines-Orozco, John Moraros
Assessment of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cancer screening services in Korea, 1998–2012
Sujin Kim, Jongnam Hwang
Trends in attitudes towards female genital mutilation among ever-married Egyptian women, evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys, 1995–2014: paths of change
Ronan Van Rossem, Dominique Meekers, Anastasia J. Gage
Patterns of pharmaceutical use for immigrants to Spain and Norway: a comparative study of prescription databases in two European countries
Luis Andres Gimeno-Feliu, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Alexandra Prados-Torres, Concha Revilla-López, Esperanza Diaz
Rethinking cost-effectiveness in the era of zero healthcare spending growth
Ronen Arbel, Dan Greenberg
Why are the poor less covered in Ghana’s national health insurance? A critical analysis of policy and practice
Agnes Millicent Kotoh, Sjaak Van der Geest
Prevalence and factors associated with violence and abuse of older adults in Mexico’s 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey
Maria Guadalupe Ruelas-González, María Beatriz Duarte-Gómez, Sergio Flores-Hernández, Doris Veronica Ortega-Altamirano, Jesus David Cortés-Gil, Arianna Taboada, Ana Lorena Ruano
Health inequality in the Russian Federation: An examination of the changes in concentration and achievement indices from 1994 to 2013
Pavitra Paul, Hannu Valtonen
Large urban–rural disparity in the severity of two-week illness: updated results based on the first health service survey of Hunan Province, China
Danping Tian, Li Sun, Lingling Zhang, Lin Zhang, Wei Zhang, Li Li, Xin Deng, Peishan Ning, Xunjie Cheng, Jing Deng, Guoqing Hu
Accessible health care for Roma: a gypsy’s tale a qualitative in-depth study of access to health care for Roma in Ghent
Lise G. M. Hanssens, Ignaas Devisch, Janique Lobbestael, Barbara Cottenie, Sara Willems
Looking beyond the veil of the European crisis - the need to uncover the structural causes of health inequalities
Antonio Escolar Pujolar, Amaia Bacigalupe, Miguel San Sebastian
A Canadian qualitative study exploring the diversity of the experience of family caregivers of older adults with multiple chronic conditions using a social location perspective
Allison Williams, Bharati Sethi, Wendy Duggleby, Jenny Ploeg, Maureen Markle-Reid, Shelley Peacock, Sunita Ghosh
How social policies can improve financial accessibility of healthcare: a multi-level analysis of unmet medical need in European countries
Sabine Israel
Thanks to all those who reviewed for International Journal for Equity in Health in 2015
Efrat Shadmi, Leiyu Shi
Erratum to: State budget transfers to Health Insurance Funds for universal health coverage: institutional design patterns and challenges of covering those outside the formal sector in Eastern European high-income countries
World Health Organization, Ileana Vilcu, Inke Mathauer
A cross-sectional study of parental awareness of and reasons for lack of health insurance among minority children, and the impact on health, access to care, and unmet needs
Glenn Flores, Hua Lin, Candy Walker, Michael Lee, Alberto Portillo, Monica Henry, Marco Fierro, Kenneth Massey
Who benefits most from influenza vaccination policy: a study among the elderly in Beijing, China
Tongtong Li, Min Lv, Trudy Lei, Jiang Wu, Xinghuo Pang, Ying Deng, Zheng Xie
The impact of a bundled policy intervention on improving the performance of rural healthcare in China
Jian Wu, Xiaofang Li, Yao Song, Hui Shao, Qian Shi, Doudou Qin, Shuangbao Xie, Lizheng Shi
The effectiveness of implementation in Indigenous Australian healthcare: an overview of literature reviews
Janya McCalman, Roxanne Bainbridge, Nikki Percival, Komla Tsey
“Choice Set” for health behavior in choice-constrained settings to frame research and inform policy: examples of food consumption, obesity and food security
Robert V. H. Dover, Estelle V. Lambert
The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale (RACES): item response theory findings
Kaine Grigg, Lenore Manderson
Erratum to: Health inequality in the Russian federation: an examination of the changes in concentration and achievement indices from 1994 to 2013
Pavitra Paul, Hannu Valtonen
Socioeconomic Inequality in mortality using 12-year follow-up data from nationally representative surveys in South Korea
Young-Ho Khang, Hye-Ryun Kim
Erratum to: individual-level changes in self-rated health before and during the economic crisis in Europe
Dawit Shawel Abebe, Anne Grete Tøge, Espen Dahl
Mental health among men who have sex with men in Cambodia: Implications for integration of mental health services within HIV programmes
Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Pheak Chhoun, Khuondyla Pal, Sok Chamreun Choub, Gitau Mburu
Risk factors for not completing health interventions and the potential impact on health inequalities between educational groups – a mixed method study from Denmark
Nanna Kure-Biegel, Christina Warrer Schnohr, Anette Lykke Hindhede, Finn Diderichsen
Age-period-cohort analysis of infectious disease mortality in urban-rural China, 1990–2010
Zhi Li, Peigang Wang, Ge Gao, Chunling Xu, Xinguang Chen
“I don’t have options but to persevere.” Experiences and practices of care for HIV and diabetes in rural Tanzania: a qualitative study of patients and family caregivers
Mary N. Mwangome, Eveline Geubbels, Paul Klatser, Marjolein Dieleman
State budget transfers to health insurance funds: extending universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries of the WHO European Region
Inke Mathauer, Mareike Theisling, Benoit Mathivet, Ileana Vilcu
Utilization of tooth filling services by people with disabilities in Taiwan
Ming-Chuan Chen, Pei-Tseng Kung, Hsun-Pi Su, Suh-May Yen, Li-Ting Chiu, Wen-Chen Tsai
Comparative observational study of mortality amenable by health policy and care between rural and urban Finland: no excess segregation of mortality in the capital despite its increasing residential differentiation
Markku Lehikoinen, Martti Arffman, Kristiina Manderbacka, Marko Elovainio, Ilmo Keskimäki
The utility of resilience as a conceptual framework for understanding and measuring LGBTQ health
Emily Colpitts, Jacqueline Gahagan
Are health care inequalities unfair? A study on public attitudes in 23 countries
Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Nico Vonneilich, Tae Jun Kim
Health inequalities by socioeconomic characteristics in Spain: the economic crisis effect
Clara Barroso, Ignacio Abásolo, José J. Cáceres
Erratum to: Inequity in waiting for cataract surgery - an analysis of data from the Swedish National Cataract Register
Goldina Smirthwaite, Mats Lundström, Barbro Wijma, Nina Lykke, Katarina Swahnberg
Equity of access to primary healthcare for vulnerable populations: the IMPACT international online survey of innovations
Lauralie Richard, John Furler, Konstancja Densley, Jeannie Haggerty, Grant Russell, Jean-Frederic Levesque, Jane Gunn
The utilization and barriers of Pap smear among women with visual impairment
Wen-Hui Fang, Chia-Feng Yen, Jung Hu, Jin-Ding Lin, Ching-Hui Loh
Informal workers and access to healthcare: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to accessing healthcare for beer promoters in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Vanphanom Sychareun, Viengnakhone Vongxay, Vassana Thammavongsa, Souksamone Thongmyxay, Phouthong Phummavongsa, Jo Durham
Voluntary Health Insurance expenditure in low- and middle-income countries: Exploring trends during 1995–2012 and policy implications for progress towards universal health coverage
Luisa M. Pettigrew, Inke Mathauer
National equity of health resource allocation in China: data from 2009 to 2013
Wen Liu, Ying Liu, Peter Twum, Shixue Li
Local disease concepts relevant to the design of a community-based surveillance program for influenza in rural Guatemala
Alejandro Cerón, Maria Renee Ortiz, Danilo Álvarez, Guy H. Palmer, Celia Cordón-Rosales
Dynamics of sustained use and abandonment of clean cooking systems: study protocol for community-based system dynamics modeling
Praveen Kumar, Nishesh Chalise, Gautam N. Yadama
Out-of-pocket expenditures for childbirth in the context of the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) cash transfer program to promote facility births: who pays and how much? Studies from Madhya Pradesh, India
Kristi Sidney, Mariano Salazar, Gaetano Marrone, Vishal Diwan, Ayesha DeCosta, Lars Lindholm
New cooperative medical scheme decreased financial burden but expanded the gap of income-related inequity: evidence from three provinces in rural China
Jingdong Ma, Juan Xu, Zhiguo Zhang, Jing Wang
A survey on socioeconomic determinants of diabetes mellitus management in a lower 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
Health effects of unemployment in Europe (2008–2011): a longitudinal analysis of income and financial strain as mediating factors
Anne Grete Tøge
Health insurance and quality of care: Comparing perceptions of quality between insured and uninsured patients in Ghana’s hospitals
Aaron A. Abuosi, Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh, Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah
Abuse and discrimination towards indigenous people in public health care facilities: experiences from rural Guatemala
Alejandro Cerón, Ana Lorena Ruano, Silvia Sánchez, Aiken S. Chew, Diego Díaz, Alison Hernández, Walter Flores
Socioeconomic gradients in early childhood health: evidence from Bangladesh and Nepal
Satis Devkota, Bibhudutta Panda
Is it getting better? An analytical method to test trends in health disparities, with tobacco use among sexual minority vs. heterosexual youth as an example
Yuko Homma, Elizabeth Saewyc, Bruno D. Zumbo
Contrasting “back home” and “here”: how Northeast African migrant women perceive and experience health during pregnancy and postpartum in Canada
Maira Quintanilha, Maria J. Mayan, Jessica Thompson, Rhonda C. Bell
Social media and digital technology use among Indigenous young people in Australia: a literature review
Emma S. Rice, Emma Haynes, Paul Royce, Sandra C. Thompson
Measuring gender when you don’t have a gender measure: constructing a gender index using survey data
Peter M. Smith, Mieke Koehoorn
Health inequalities after austerity in Greece
Marina Karanikolos, Alexander Kentikelenis
Incorporating health literacy in education for socially disadvantaged adults: an Australian feasibility study
Danielle M. Muscat, Sian Smith, Haryana M. Dhillon, Suzanne Morony, Esther L. Davis, Karen Luxford, Heather L. Shepherd, Andrew Hayen, John Comings, Don Nutbeam, Kirsten McCaffery
Expelled uninsured patients in a less-competitive hospital market in Florida, USA
Keon-Hyung Lee, Seunghoo Lim, Jungwon Park
Managing menstruation in the workplace: an overlooked issue in low- and middle-income countries
Marni Sommer, Sahani Chandraratna, Sue Cavill, Therese Mahon, Penelope Phillips-Howard
Measuring spatial equity and access to maternal health services using enhanced two step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA) – a case study of the Indian Sundarbans
Lalitha Vadrevu, Barun Kanjilal
Disparities in the experience and treatment of dental caries among children aged 9–18 years: the cross-sectional study of Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2012–2013)
Juyeong Kim, Young Choi, Sohee Park, Jeong Lim Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Kyoung Hee Cho, Eun-Cheol Park
Comparison of small-area deprivation measures as predictors of chronic disease burden in a low-income population
Ana Lòpez-De Fede, John E. Stewart, James W. Hardin, Kathy Mayfield-Smith
Routine screening of Indigenous cancer patients’ unmet support needs: a qualitative study of patient and clinician attitudes
B. Thewes, E. Davis, A. Girgis, P. C. Valery, K. Giam, A. Hocking, J. Jackson, V. Yf He, D. Yip, G. Garvey
Interpretive policy analysis: Marshallese COFA migrants and the Affordable Care Act
Pearl Anna McElfish, Rachel S. Purvis, Gregory G. Maskarinec, Williamina Ioanna Bing, Christopher J. Jacob, Mandy Ritok-Lakien, Jellesen Rubon-Chutaro, Sharlynn Lang, Sammie Mamis, Sheldon Riklon
Social inequality and children’s health in Africa: a cross sectional study
Tim B. Heaton, Benjamin Crookston, Hayley Pierce, Acheampong Yaw Amoateng
Measuring and understanding the effects of a performance based financing scheme applied to nutrition services in Burundi—a mixed method impact evaluation design
Manassé Nimpagaritse, Catherine Korachais, Dominique Roberfroid, Patrick Kolsteren, Moulay Driss Zine Eddine El Idrissi, Bruno Meessen
Financial access to health care for older people in Cambodia: 10-year trends (2004-14) and determinants of catastrophic health expenses
Bart Jacobs, Richard de Groot, Adélio Fernandes Antunes
Teen clinics: missing the mark? Comparing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections rates among enrolled and non-enrolled adolescents
Souradet Y. Shaw, Colleen Metge, Carole Taylor, Mariette Chartier, Catherine Charette, Lisa Lix, Rob Santos, Joykrishna Sarkar, Nathan C. Nickel, Elaine Burland, Dan Chateau, Alan Katz, Marni Brownell, Patricia J. Martens, James Bolton, Marni Brownell, Charles Burchill, Elaine Burland, Mariette Chartier, Dan Chateau, Malcolm Doupe, Greg Finlayson, Randall Fransoo, Chun Yan Goh, Milton Hu, Doug Jutte, Alan Katz, Laurence Katz, Lisa Lix, Patricia J. Martens, Colleen Metge, Nathan C Nickel, Colette Raymond, Les Roos, Noralou Roos, Rob Santos, Joykrishna Sarkar, Mark Smith, Carole Taylor, Randy Walld
Inequity in level of healthcare utilization before and after universal health coverage reforms in China: evidence from household surveys in Sichuan Province
Hedda Flatø, Huafeng Zhang
How to improve collaboration between the public health sector and other policy sectors to reduce health inequalities? – A study in sixteen municipalities in the Netherlands
Ilse Storm, Frank den Hertog, Hans van Oers, Albertine J. Schuit
Fair publication of qualitative research in health systems: a call by health policy and systems researchers
Karen Daniels, Rene Loewenson, Asha George, Natasha Howard, Gergana Koleva, Simon Lewin, Bruno Marchal, Devaki Nambiar, Ligia Paina, Emma Sacks, Kabir Sheikh, Moses Tetui, Sally Theobald, Stephanie M. Topp, Anthony B. Zwi
When they talk about motherhood: a qualitative study of three groups’ perceptions in a Swedish child health service context
Erik Masao Eriksson, Kristin Eliasson, Andreas Hellström, Sylvia Määttä, Lisa Vaughn
Access to free or low-cost tuberculosis treatment for migrants and refugees along the Thailand-Myanmar border in Tak province, Thailand
Naomi Tschirhart, Francois Nosten, Angel M. Foster
Income inequality and foregone medical care in Europe during The Great Recession: multilevel analyses of EU-SILC surveys 2008–2013
Jon Ivar Elstad
Households, the omitted level in contextual analysis: disentangling the relative influence of households and districts on the variation of BMI about two decades in Indonesia
Masoud Vaezghasemi, Nawi Ng, Malin Eriksson, S. V. Subramanian
The impact of increasing income inequalities on educational inequalities in mortality - An analysis of six European countries
Rasmus Hoffmann, Yannan Hu, Rianne de Gelder, Gwenn Menvielle, Matthias Bopp, Johan P. Mackenbach
Social determinants of inequities in under-nutrition (weight-for-age) among under-5 children: a cross sectional study in Gumla district of Jharkhand, India
Keya Chatterjee, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Alok Kumar Kundu, Dhananjay Shankar, Rajkumar Gope, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta K Tripathy
Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia
Javkhlanbayar Dorjdagva, Enkhjargal Batbaatar, Mikael Svensson, Bayarsaikhan Dorjsuren, Jussi Kauhanen
Decomposing socio-economic inequalities in leisure-time physical inactivity: the case of Spanish children
Eduardo Gonzalo-Almorox, Rosa M. Urbanos-Garrido
Age-period-cohort analysis of suicide mortality by gender among white and black Americans, 1983–2012
Zhenkun Wang, Chuanhua Yu, Jinyao Wang, Junzhe Bao, Xudong Gao, Huiyun Xiang
Health service access and utilization among Syrian refugees in Jordan
Shannon Doocy, Emily Lyles, Laila Akhu-Zaheya, Ann Burton, Gilbert Burnham
The association between socioeconomic deprivation and secondary school students’ health: findings from a latent class analysis of a national adolescent health survey
Simon Denny, Sonia Lewycka, Jennifer Utter, Theresa Fleming, Roshini Peiris-John, Janie Sheridan, Fiona Rossen, Donna Wynd, Tasileta Teevale, Pat Bullen, Terryann Clark
Experiences applying for and understanding health insurance under Massachusetts health care reform
Rachel Nardin, Leah Zallman, Assaad Sayah, Danny McCormick
The effect of childhood and current economic status on depressive symptoms in South Korean individuals: a longitudinal study
Woorim Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Yeong Jun Ju, Eun-Cheol Park
Don’t ask for fair treatment? A gender analysis of ethnic discrimination, response to discrimination, and self-rated health among marriage migrants in South Korea
Yugyun Kim, Inseo Son, Dainn Wie, Carles Muntaner, Hyunwoo Kim, Seung-Sup Kim
The effect of herd formation among healthcare investors on health sector growth in China
Zhou Lulin, Henry Asante Antwi, Wenxin Wang, Ethel Yiranbon, Emmanuel Opoku Marfo, Patrick Acheampong
The impact of internal displacement on child mortality in post-earthquake Haiti: a difference-in-differences analysis
Bradley Chen, Timothy J. Halliday, Victoria Y. Fan
Regional mortality by socioeconomic factors in Slovakia: a comparison of 15 years of changes
Katarina Rosicova, Lucia Bosakova, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Martin Rosic, Marek Andrejkovic, Ivan Žežula, Johan W. Groothoff, Jitse P. van Dijk
Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Judith Westeneng, Ernst Spaan, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Irene Akua Agyepong, Rob Baltussen
Incentives to yield to Obstetric Referrals in deprived areas of Amansie West district in the Ashanti Region, Ghana
Gladys Buruwaa Nuamah, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Kofi Mensah Akohene, Daniel Boateng, Dominic Dobin, Kwasi Addai-Donkor
“You have to keep fighting”: maintaining healthcare services and professionalism on the frontline of austerity in Greece
Angeliki Kerasidou, Patricia Kingori, Helena Legido-Quigley
Medical security and catastrophic health expenditures among households containing persons with disabilities in Korea: a longitudinal population-based study
Jae Woo Choi, Jae-Yong Shin, Kyung-Hee Cho, Jin-Young Nam, Ju-Young Kim, Sang Gyu Lee
Equity in the use of public services for mother and newborn child health care in Pakistan: a utilization incidence analysis
Sadia Mariam Malik, Nabila Ashraf
Equitable access to integrated primary mental healthcare for people with severe mental disorders in Ethiopia: a formative study
Maji Hailemariam, Abebaw Fekadu, Medhin Selamu, Girmay Medhin, Martin Prince, Charlotte Hanlon
Access to health for refugees in Greece: lessons in inequalities
Antonis A. Kousoulis, Myrsini Ioakeim-Ioannidou, Konstantinos P. Economopoulos
Cost and impact of policies to remove and reduce fees for obstetric care in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Morocco
S. Witter, C. Boukhalfa, J. A. Cresswell, Z. Daou, V. Filippi, R. Ganaba, S. Goufodji, I. L. Lange, B. Marchal, F. Richard
Insurance-related disparities in primary care quality among U.S. Type 2 diabetes patients
De-Chih Lee, Hailun Liang, Leiyu Shi
Assessment of the spatial accessibility to health professionals at French census block level
Fei Gao, Wahida Kihal, Nolwenn Le Meur, Marc Souris, Séverine Deguen
Educational attainment, gender and health inequalities among older adults in Catalonia (Spain)
Aïda Solé-Auró, Manuela Alcañiz
Parental migration and smoking behavior of left-behind children: evidence from a survey in rural Anhui, China
Tingting Yang, Cuicui Li, Chengchao Zhou, Shan Jiang, Jie Chu, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle
The role of primary care in improving health equity: report of a workshop held by the WONCA Health Equity Special Interest Group at the 2015 WONCA Europe Conference in Istanbul, Turkey
Ula Jan Chetty, Patrick O’Donnell, David Blane, Sara Willems
Swimming against the tide: A Canadian qualitative study examining the implementation of a province-wide public health initiative to address health equity
Charmaine McPherson, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Claire Betker, Dianne Oickle, Nancy Peroff-Johnston
A reverse factual analysis of the association between smoking and memory decline in China
Yingying Yi, Ying Liang, Guoqiang Rui
Evaluation of performance and impacts of maternal and child health hospital services using Data Envelopment Analysis in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China: a comparison study among poverty and non-poverty county level hospitals
Xuan Wang, Hongye Luo, Xianjin Qin, Jun Feng, Hongda Gao, Qiming Feng
Improving health related quality of life among rural hypertensive patients through the integrative strategy of health services delivery: a quasi-experimental trial from Chongqing, China
Yudong Miao, Liang Zhang, Vibeke Sparring, Sandeep Sandeep, Wenxi Tang, Xiaowei Sun, Da Feng, Ting Ye
“This thing of testing our blood is really very important”: a qualitative study of primary care laboratory services in Tete Province, Mozambique
Benvindo Toni Maria Tadeu, Diederike Geelhoed
Challenges to driver licensing participation for Aboriginal people in Australia: a systematic review of the literature
Patricia Cullen, Kathleen Clapham, Kate Hunter, Rebekah Treacy, Rebecca Ivers
Economic crisis and health inequalities: evidence from the European Union
Laia Maynou, Marc Saez
Regional and social inequalities in the performance of Pap test and screening mammography and their correlation with lifestyle: Brazilian national health survey, 2013
Mariza Miranda Theme Filha, Maria do Carmo Leal, Elaine Fernandes Viellas de Oliveira, Ana Paula Esteves-Pereira, Silvana Granado Nogueira da Gama
Socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living limitations and in the provision of informal and formal care for noninstitutionalized older Brazilians: National Health Survey, 2013
Ma.Fernanda Lima-Costa, Juliana V. M. Mambrini, Sérgio V. Peixoto, Deborah C. Malta, James Macinko
The relationship between the Maria da Penha Law and intimate partner violence in two Brazilian states
Mariana V. Gattegno, Jasmine D. Wilkins, Dabney P. Evans
Time trends in adult chronic disease inequalities by education in Brazil: 1998–2013
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Flavia C. D. Andrade
Changes in health care inequity in Brazil between 2008 and 2013
Pricila Mullachery, Diana Silver, James Macinko
Inequalities in healthy life expectancy by Brazilian geographic regions: findings from the National Health Survey, 2013
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior, Aline Pinto Marques, Wanessa da Silva de Almeida, Dalia Elena Romero Montilla
Regional disparities in road traffic injuries and their determinants in Brazil, 2013
Otaliba Libanio Morais Neto, Ana Lúcia Andrade, Rafael Alves Guimarães, Polyana Maria Pimenta Mandacarú, Gabriela Camargo Tobias
Socioeconomic inequality in oral health behavior in Iranian children and adolescents by the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method: the CASPIAN- IV study
Saeid Safiri, Roya Kelishadi, Ramin Heshmat, Ali Rahimi, Shirin Djalalinia, Anoosheh Ghasemian, Ali Sheidaei, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Gelayol Ardalan, Morteza Mansourian, Hamid Asayesh, Mahdi Sepidarkish, Mostafa Qorbani
Inequalities in socioeconomic status and race and the odds of undergoing a mammogram in Brazil
Enirtes Caetano Prates Melo, Evangelina Xavier Gouveia de Oliveira, Dóra Chor, Marilia Sá Carvalho, Rejane Sobrino Pinheiro
Urban regeneration as population health intervention: a health impact assessment in the Bay of Pasaia (Spain)
Elena Serrano, Isabel Larrañaga, Maite Morteruel, María Dolores Baixas de Ros, Mikel Basterrechea, Dolores Martinez, Elena Aldasoro, Amaia Bacigalupe
Educational inequalities in hypertension: complex patterns in intersections with gender and race in Brazil
Ronaldo Fernandes Santos Alves, Eduardo Faerstein
The person in the disabled body: a perspective on culture and personhood from the margins
Maayan Agmon, Amalia Sa’ar, Tal Araten-Bergman
Social inequalities in health behaviors among Brazilian adults: National Health Survey, 2013
Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros, Margareth Guimarães Lima, Lhais de Paula Barbosa Medina, Celia Landman Szwarcwald, Deborah Carvalho Malta
Coverage and equity in reproductive and maternal health interventions in Brazil: impressive progress following the implementation of the Unified Health System
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