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International Journal for Equity in Health

Ausgabe 1/2022

Inhalt (177 Artikel)

Open Access Research

How do we measure gender discrimination? Proposing a construct of gender discrimination through a systematic scoping review

Laura de la Torre-Pérez, Alba Oliver-Parra, Xavier Torres, Maria Jesús Bertran

Open Access Research

“We are not stray leaves blowing about in the wind”: exploring the impact of Family Wellbeing empowerment research, 1998–2021

Nirukshi Perera, Komla Tsey, Marion Heyeres, Mary Whiteside, Leslie Baird, Janya McCalman, Yvonne Cadet-James, Bianca Calabria, Michael Hamilton, Li Yan, Ines Zuchowski, Kearrin Sims, Hyacinth Udah

Open Access Research

Intersectional inequalities in younger women’s experiences of physical intimate partner violence across communities in Bangladesh

Laila Rahman, Janice Du Mont, Patricia O’Campo, Gillian Einstein

Open Access Research

Socio-economic determinants of healthcare costs in early life: a register-based study in the Netherlands

Marije van der Hulst, Suzanne Polinder, Rianne Kok, Peter Prinzie, Marijke W. de Groot, Alex Burdorf, Loes C. M. Bertens

Open Access Research

The distributional effects of tobacco tax increases across regions in Mexico: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis

Belen Saenz-de-Miera, Daphne C. Wu, Beverly M. Essue, Norman Maldonado, Prabhat Jha, Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Core policies disparity response to COVID-19 among BRICS countries

Jun Jiao, Leiyu Shi, Yuyao Zhang, Haiqian Chen, Xiaohan Wang, Manfei Yang, Junyan Yang, Meiheng Liu, Gang Sun

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Ezidi voices: The communication of COVID-19 information amongst a refugee community in rural Australia- a qualitative study

Sunita Joann Rebecca Healey, Nafiseh Ghafournia, Peter D Massey, Karinne Andrich, Joy Harrison, Kathryn Taylor, Katarzyna Bolsewicz

Open Access Research

Assessing equity in health, wealth, and civic engagement: a nationally representative survey, United States, 2020

Thomas J. Stopka, Wenhui Feng, Laura Corlin, Erin King, Jayanthi Mistry, Wendy Mansfield, Ying Wang, Peter Levine, Jennifer D. Allen

Open Access Systematic review

The burden of household out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Moges Tadesse Borde, Robel Hussen Kabthymer, Mohammed Feyisso Shaka, Semagn Mekonnen Abate

Open Access Research

Sex work community participation in criminalized environments: a community-based cohort study of occupational health impacts in Vancouver, Canada: 2010–2019

Jennie Pearson, Kate Shannon, Bronwyn McBride, Andrea Krüsi, Sylvia Machat, Melissa Braschel, Shira Goldenberg

Open Access Research

Estimating the costs for implementing a maternity leave cash transfer program for women employed in the informal sector in Brazil and Ghana

Grace Carroll, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Graciela Teruel, Meztli Moncada, David Aban-Tamayo, Heitor Werneck, Ricardo Montes de Moraes, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

Open Access Systematic review

Equity in health insurance schemes enrollment in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Doris Osei Afriyie, Blerina Krasniq, Brady Hooley, Fabrizio Tediosi, Günther Fink

Open Access Systematic review

A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States

Christine Park, Mandisa-Maia Jones, Samantha Kaplan, Felicitas L. Koller, Julius M. Wilder, L. Ebony Boulware, Lisa M. McElroy

Open Access Research

Exploring social determinants of health in a Saudi Arabian primary health care setting: the need for a multidisciplinary approach

Basmah Almujadidi, Alayne Adams, Aljohara Alquaiz, Gerald Van Gurp, Tibor Schuster, Anne Andermann

Open Access Research

How equitable is health spending on curative services and institutional delivery in Malawi? Evidence from a quasi-longitudinal benefit incidence analysis

Martin Rudasingwa, Edmund Yeboah, Valéry Ridde, Emmanuel Bonnet, Manuela De Allegri, Adamson Sinjani Muula

Open Access Research

Gender equity in vision care seeking behavior among caregivers: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural China

Huan Wang, Claire Cousineau, Yingjie Fan, Sarah-Eve Dill, Matthew Boswell, Scott Rozelle, Xiaochen Ma

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Multi-level policy responses to tackle socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence of COVID-19 in a European urban area

Davide Malmusi, M. Isabel Pasarín, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Lucía Artazcoz, Elia Diez, Sara Tolosa, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Glòria Pérez, Conchita Peña-Gallardo, Carme Borrell

Open Access Research

Reducing the equity gap in child health care and health system reforms in Latin America

Daniel Maceira, Luisa Brumana, Joaquín González Aleman

Open Access Research

A global cautionary tale: discrimination and violence against trans women worsen despite investments in public resources and improvements in health insurance access and utilization of health care

Sean Arayasirikul, Caitlin Turner, Dillon Trujillo, Sofia L. Sicro, Susan Scheer, Willi McFarland, Erin C. Wilson

Open Access Research

Indigenous health equity in health register ascertainment and data quality: a narrative review

Karen Wright, Rachel M. Tapera, N. Susan Stott, Alexandra Sorhage, Anna Mackey, Sîan A. Williams

Open Access Research

Developing a tool for the measurement of social exclusion in healthcare settings

Patrick O’Donnell, Ailish Hannigan, Nuha Ibrahim, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Khalifa Elmusharaf

Open Access Research

Respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human right to health

Zahara Nampewo, Jennifer Heaven Mike, Jonathan Wolff

Open Access Research

Analysis of factors affecting medical personnel seeking employment at primary health care institutions: developing human resources for primary health care

Huanhuan Jia, Xihe Yu, Hairui Jiang, Jianxing Yu, Peng Cao, Shang Gao, Panpan Shang, Bayuzhen Qiang

Open Access Research

Placing equity at the heart of eHealth implementation: a qualitative pilot study

Milena Heinsch, Campbell Tickner, Frances Kay-Lambkin

Open Access Research

From each according to means, to each according to needs? Distributional effects of abolishing asset-based payments for residential care in Austria

Ricardo Rodrigues, Cassandra Simmons, Tamara Premrov, Christian Böhler, Kai Leichsenring

Open Access Review

The political economy of health financing reforms in Zimbabwe: a scoping review

Alison T. Mhazo, Charles C. Maponga

Open Access Research

How to make healthy early childhood development more likely in marginalized Roma communities: a concept mapping approach

Shoshana Chovan, Daniela Filakovska Bobakova, Lucia Bosakova, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Marlou L. A. de Kroon

Open Access Research

Current intimate partner violence and associated factors among sero-positive women attending Adama town ART Clinics, Central Ethiopia 2019

Girma Garedew Goyomsa, Teklu Arga Albe, Sisay Abebe Debela, Leul Deribe Kitaw

Open Access Research

Comparison of household socioeconomic status classification methods and effects on risk estimation: lessons from a natural experimental study, Kisumu, Western Kenya

Vincent Were, Louise Foley, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Ebele Mogo, Pamela Wadende, Rosemary Musuva, Charles Obonyo

Open Access Research

“Many people have no idea”: a qualitative analysis of healthcare barriers among Yazidi refugees in the Midwestern United States

Falah N. Rashoka, Megan S. Kelley, Jeong-Kyun Choi, Marc A. Garcia, Weiwen Chai, Hazim N. Rashawka

Open Access Systematic review

Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice

Sonia Ahmed, Liana E. Chase, Janelle Wagnild, Nasima Akhter, Scarlett Sturridge, Andrew Clarke, Pari Chowdhary, Diana Mukami, Adetayo Kasim, Kate Hampshire

Open Access Research

Socioeconomic inequalities in physiological risk biomarkers and the role of lifestyles among Russians aged 35-69 years

Sergi Trias-Llimós, Sarah Cook, Anne Elise Eggen, Alexander V. Kudryavtsev, Sofia Malyutina, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, David A. Leon

Open Access Research

An analysis of the gender and social determinants of health in urban poor areas of the most populated cities of Pakistan

Khawaja Aftab Ahmed, John Grundy, Lubna Hashmat, Imran Ahmed, Saadia Farrukh, Dexter Bersonda, Muhammad Akram Shah, Soofia Yunus, Hari Krishna Banskota

Open Access Research

Identifying health care access barriers in southern rural Ecuador

Anthony Brusnahan, Majo Carrasco-Tenezaca, Benjamin R. Bates, Rosellen Roche, Mario J. Grijalva

Open Access Research

Exploring the potential for a new measure of socioeconomic deprivation status to monitor health inequality

Jakob Dirksen, Monica Pinilla-Roncancio, Fernando C. Wehrmeister, Leonardo Z. Ferreira, Luis Paulo Vidaletti, Katherine Kirkby, Theadora Swift Koller, Anne Schlotheuber, Heriberto Tapia, Cecilia Vidal Fuertes, Sabina Alkire, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Strategies comparison in response to the two waves of COVID-19 in the United States and India

Junyan Yang, Leiyu Shi, Haiqian Chen, Xiaohan Wang, Jun Jiao, Manfei Yang, Meiheng Liu, Gang Sun

Open Access Research

A community-led mobile health clinic to improve structural and social determinants of health among (im)migrant workers

Shannon Guillot-Wright, N. Miles Farr, Ellie Cherryhomes

Open Access Research

Exploring theoretical mechanisms of community-engaged research: a multilevel cross-sectional national study of structural and relational practices in community-academic partnerships

John G. Oetzel, Blake Boursaw, Maya Magarati, Elizabeth Dickson, Shannon Sanchez-Youngman, Leo Morales, Sarah Kastelic, Milton “Mickey” Eder, Nina Wallerstein

Open Access Research

Combining photo-elicitation and discourse analysis to examine adolescents’ sexuality in rural Zambia

Chama Mulubwa, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Charles Michelo, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy, Isabel Goicolea

Open Access Research

Socioeconomic inequalities in stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates: evidence on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in eastern India

Sophie L.P. Busch, Tanja A.J. Houweling, Hemanta Pradhan, Rajkumar Gope, Shibanand Rath, Amit Kumar, Vikash Nath, Audrey Prost, Nirmala Nair

Open Access Research

The true costs of cesarean delivery for patients in rural Rwanda: Accounting for post-discharge expenses in estimated health expenditures

Anne Niyigena, Barnabas Alayande, Laban Bikorimana, Elizabeth Miranda, Niclas Rudolfson, Deogratias Ndagijimana, Fredrick Kateera, Robert Riviello, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

Open Access Editorial

Interventions and policy approaches to promote equity in breastfeeding

M. Vilar-Compte, R. Pérez-Escamilla, A. L. Ruano

Open Access COVID-19 Research

COVID-19 as a social disease: qualitative analysis of COVID-19 prevention needs, impact of control measures and community responses among racialized/ethnic minorities in Antwerp, Belgium

Christiana Nöstlinger, Ella Van Landeghem, Jef Vanhamel, Anke Rotsaert, Lazare Manirankunda, Charles Ddungu, Thijs Reyniers, Deogratias Katsuva, Jana Vercruyssen, Stef Dielen, Marie Meudec

Open Access Research

The political economy of priority-setting for health in South Sudan: a case study of the Health Pooled Fund

Heloise Widdig, Noor Tromp, George William Lutwama, Eelco Jacobs

Open Access Research

Income inequality and self-rated health status in Colombia

Pamela Góngora-Salazar, María Sofía Casabianca, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes

Open Access COVID-19 Research

A kia ora, a wave and a smile: an urban marae-led response to COVID-19, a case study in manaakitanga

Cheryl Davies, Carmen Timu-Parata, Jeannine Stairmand, Bridget Robson, Amanda Kvalsvig, Dominique Lum, Virginia Signal

Open Access Research

Qualitative modelling of social determinants of health using group model building: the case of debt, poverty, and health

Laurens Reumers, Marleen Bekker, Henk Hilderink, Maria Jansen, Jan-Kees Helderman, Dirk Ruwaard

Open Access Review

A policy analysis of policies and strategic plans on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Ethiopia

Josea Rono, Lynette Kamau, Jane Mangwana, Jacinta Waruguru, Pauline Aluoch, Maureen Njoroge

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with social well-being indicators in Mexico

M. Vilar-Compte, M. Hernández-F, P. Gaitán-Rossi, V. Pérez, G. Teruel

Open Access Research

Does social capital buffer or exacerbate mental health inequality? Evidence from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS)

Dan Cao, Zhongliang Zhou, Guanping Liu, Chi Shen, Yangling Ren, Dantong Zhao, Yaxin Zhao, Qiwei Deng, Xiaohui Zhai

Open Access COVID-19 Review

COVID-19 double jeopardy: the overwhelming impact of the social determinants of health

Elizabeth Badalov, Liz Blackler, Amy E. Scharf, Konstantina Matsoukas, Sanjay Chawla, Louis P. Voigt, Arthur Kuflik

Open Access Research

The unvirtuous cycle of discrimination affecting people with hepatitis B: a multi-country qualitative assessment of key-informant perspectives

Catherine Freeland, Lindsay Mendola, Vivian Cheng, Chari Cohen, Jack Wallace

Open Access Correction

Correction: A policy analysis of policies and strategic plans on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Ethiopia

Josea Rono, Lynette Kamau, Jane Mangwana, Jacinta Waruguru, Pauline Aluoch, Maureen Njoroge

Open Access Research

Trajectories of socioeconomic inequality in early child development: a cohort analysis

Tanja A. J. Houweling, Joost Oude Groeniger, Pauline W. Jansen, Pol van Lier, Nil Horoz, Marieke Buil, Frank J. van Lenthe

Open Access Research

Do changes in primary care service use over time differ by neighbourhood income? Population-based longitudinal study in British Columbia, Canada

M.R. Lavergne, A. Bodner, S. Peterson, M. Wiedmeyer, D. Rudoler, S. Spencer, E.G. Marshall

Open Access Systematic Review

Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Huda Ahmed Ali, Anna-Maria Hartner, Susy Echeverria-Londono, Jeremy Roth, Xiang Li, Kaja Abbas, Allison Portnoy, Emilia Vynnycky, Kim Woodruff, Neil M Ferguson, Jaspreet Toor, Katy AM Gaythorpe

Open Access Comment

The Every Woman Every Child initiative: supporting countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to reduce social inequalities in health

Antonio Sanhueza, Liliana Carvajal, Daniel A. Cueva, Sonja Caffe, Alma Virginia Camacho, María Alejandra Berroterán, Deborah Horowitz, Amparo Gordillo-Tobar, Oscar J. Mujica

Open Access COVID-19 Comment

Barriers to COVID-19 vaccination among older adults in Mexico City

Pablo Gaitán-Rossi, Miranda Mendez-Rosenzweig, Erika García-Alberto, Mireya Vilar-Compte

Open Access Research

Adapting a South African social innovation for maternal peer support to migrant communities in Sweden: a qualitative study

Per Kåks, Anna Bergström, Sibylle Herzig van Wees, Mats Målqvist

Open Access Research

Neutrality, conflict, and structural determinants of health in a Jerusalem emergency department

Zvika Orr, Levi Jackson, Evan Avraham Alpert, Mark D. Fleming

Open Access Research

Socioeconomic disparities in healthcare utilization under universal health coverage: evidence from Dubai household health survey

Shreena Malaviya, David Bishai, Meenu Mahak Soni, El Daw Suliman

Open Access Research

The potential impact of allied health professional telehealth consultations on health inequities and the burden of treatment

Nicola Eddison, Enza Leone, Aoife Healy, Carolyn Royse, Nachiappan Chockalingam

Open Access Correction

Correction: Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Huda Ahmed Ali, Anna-Maria Hartner, Susy Echeverria-Londono, Jeremy Roth, Xiang Li, Kaja Abbas, Allison Portnoy, Emilia Vynnycky, Kim Woodruff, Neil M. Ferguson, Jaspreet Toor, Katy A. M. Gaythorpe

Open Access Correction

Correction: Does social capital buffer or exacerbate mental health inequality? Evidence from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS)

Dan Cao, Zhongliang Zhou, Guanping Liu, Chi Shen, Yangling Ren, Dantong Zhao, Yaxin Zhao, Qiwei Deng, Xiaohui Zhai

Open Access Research

Mortality and life expectancy trends in Spain by pension income level for male pensioners in the general regime retiring at the statutory age, 2005–2018

Juan M. Pérez-Salamero González, Marta Regúlez-Castillo, Manuel Ventura-Marco, Carlos Vidal-Meliá

Open Access Research

Advancing behavioral interventions for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV using a new conceptual model that integrates critical race theory, harm reduction, and self-determination theory: a qualitative exploratory study

Marya Gwadz, Sabrina R. Cluesman, Robert Freeman, Linda M. Collins, Caroline Dorsen, Robert L. Hawkins, Charles M. Cleland, Leo Wilton, Amanda S. Ritchie, Karen Torbjornsen, Noelle R. Leonard, Belkis Y. Martinez, Elizabeth Silverman, Khadija Israel, Alexandra Kutnick

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study

Susana Caxaj, Maxwell Tran, Stephanie Mayell, Michelle Tew, Janet McLaughlin, Shail Rawal, Leah F. Vosko, Donald Cole

Open Access Research

Exploring views on medical care for people with intellectual disabilities: an international concept mapping study

Marian E. J. Breuer, Esther J. Bakker-van Gijssel, Kristel Vlot-van Anrooij, Hilde Tobi, Geraline L. Leusink, Jenneken Naaldenberg

Open Access Correction

Correction: Exploring the potential for a new measure of socioeconomic deprivation status to monitor health inequality

Jakob Dirksen, Monica Pinilla-Roncancio, Fernando C. Wehrmeister, Leonardo Z. Ferreira, Luis Paulo Vidaletti, Katherine Kirkby, Theadora Swift Koller, Anne Schlotheuber, Heriberto Tapia, Cecilia Vidal Fuertes, Sabina Alkire, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor

Open Access Study Protocol

Co-designing an intervention to prevent rheumatic fever in Pacific People in South Auckland: a study protocol

Siobhan Tu’akoi, Malakai Ofanoa, Samuela Ofanoa, Hinamaha Lutui, Maryann Heather, Rawiri McKree Jansen, Bert van der Werf, Felicity Goodyear-Smith

Open Access Systematic review

Black nurses in the nursing profession in Canada: a scoping review

Keisha Jefferies, Chelsa States, Vanessa MacLennan, Melissa Helwig, Jacqueline Gahagan, Wanda Thomas Bernard, Marilyn Macdonald, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Ruth Martin-Misener

Open Access Research

Community engagement to improve access to healthcare: a comparative case study to advance implementation science for transgender health equity

Hale M. Thompson, Allison M. Clement, Reyna Ortiz, Toni Marie Preston, Ava L. Wells Quantrell, Michelle Enfield, A. J. King, Lee Klosinski, Cathy J. Reback, Alison Hamilton, Norweeta Milburn

Open Access COVID-19 Short report

On the frontlines

Daniel Vila, Thomas K. J. McDermott

Open Access Research

Coupling analysis of population aging and economic growth with spatial-temporal variation: a case study in China

Shaobin Wang, Zhoupeng Ren, Zhuoyao Xiao, Na Wang, Hao Yang, Haixia Pu

Open Access Research

How and why buy-in for health in all policies was facilitated in Ecuador: a realist case study of Plan Nacional para el Buen Vivir

Deb Finn Mahabir, Ketan Shankardass, Alix Freiler, Patricia O’Campo, Ben Brisbois, Carles Muntaner

Open Access Research

Developing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural indicators: an overview from Mayi Kuwayu, the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing

Sarah C. Bourke, Janet Chapman, Roxanne Jones, Makayla-May Brinckley, Katherine A. Thurber, Bianca Calabria, Kate Doery, Anna Olsen, Raymond Lovett

Open Access Correction

Correction: Advancing behavioral interventions for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV using a new conceptual model that integrates critical race theory, harm reduction, and self-determination theory: a qualitative exploratory study

Marya Gwadz, Sabrina R. Cluesman, Robert Freeman, Linda M. Collins, Caroline Dorsen, Robert L. Hawkins, Charles M. Cleland, Leo Wilton, Amanda S. Ritchie, Karen Torbjornsen, Noelle R. Leonard, Belkis Y. Martinez, Elizabeth Silverman, Khadija Israel, Alexandra Kutnick

Open Access Research

“We should be at the table together from the beginning”: perspectives on partnership from stakeholders at four research institutions in sub-Saharan Africa

Shirine Voller, Chama-Chiliba Miriam Chitalu, Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Timothy Opobo, Clare Ahabwe Bangirana, Nicki Thorogood, Joanna Schellenberg, Primus Chi

Open Access Research

Judicialization of health: profile of demands for oncological medicines in a state in the central region of Brazil

Leila Abou Salha, Flávia Costa Reis, Roberta Moreira Gonçalves, Jordão Horácio da Silva Lima, Nádia Abou Salha, Roney Pereira Pinto, José Elmo de Menezes, Eduardo Perez Oliveira, Pedro Lopes Ferreira, Maria Alves Barbosa

Open Access Research

Disease-specific distress healthcare financing and catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization in Bangladesh

Nurnabi Sheikh, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Sayem Ahmed, Mohammad Touhidul Islam, Susan Howick, Alec Morton

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Critical policies disparity of the first and second waves of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom

Manfei Yang, Leiyu Shi, Haiqian Chen, Xiaohan Wang, Jun Jiao, Meiheng Liu, Junyan Yang, Gang Sun

Open Access Research

Social determinants of mental health in Italy: the role of education in the comparison of migrant and Italian residents

Flavia Sesti, Valentina Minardi, Giovanni Baglio, Ruth Bell, Peter Goldblatt, Maurizio Marceca, Maria Masocco, Stefano Campostrini, Michael Marmot

Open Access COVID-19 Correction

Correction: Inequalities in population health loss by multiple deprivation: COVID-19 and pre-pandemic all-cause disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in Scotland

Grant M. A. Wyper, Eilidh Fletcher, Ian Grant, Oliver Harding, Maria Teresa de Haro Moro, Diane L. Stockton, Gerry McCartney

Open Access Research

Bayesian estimation of the effect of health inequality in disease detection

Dinah Jane Lope, Haydar Demirhan, Anil Dolgun

Open Access Review

Preserving independence among under-resourced older adults in the Southeastern United States: existing barriers and potential strategies for research

Ene M. Enogela, Taylor Buchanan, Christy S. Carter, Ronit Elk, Shena B. Gazaway, Burel R. Goodin, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Raymond Jones, Richard E. Kennedy, Emma Perez-Costas, Lisa Zubkoff, Emily L. Zumbro, Alayne D. Markland, Thomas W. Buford

Open Access Research

Sociodemographic inequalities in the trends of different types of leisure-time physical activity among Brazilian adults between 2006 and 2019

Raphael H. O. Araujo, André O. Werneck, Danilo R. Silva, Gilmar M. Jesus

Open Access COVID-19 Systematic Review

Inequality in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine: a systematic review

Mohsen Bayati, Rayehe Noroozi, Mohadeseh Ghanbari-Jahromi, Faride Sadat Jalali

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Refining index to measure physical activity inequality: which group of the population is the most vulnerable?

Dyah Anantalia Widyastari, Aunyarat Khanawapee, Wanisara Charoenrom, Pairoj Saonuam, Piyawat Katewongsa

Open Access Research

Effect of the free healthcare policy on socioeconomic inequalities in care seeking for fever in children under five years in Burkina Faso: a population-based surveys analysis

Sekou Samadoulougou, Mariamawit Negatou, Calypse Ngawisiri, Valery Ridde, Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou

Open Access Research

Migrants in Swedish sexual and reproductive health and rights related policies: a critical discourse analysis

Nada Amroussia, Charlotta Holmström, Pernilla Ouis

Open Access Review

Challenges to the right to health in sub-Saharan Africa: reflections on inequities in access to dialysis for patients with end-stage kidney failure

James Tataw Ashu, Jackline Mwangi, Supriya Subramani, Daniel Kaseje, Gloria Ashuntantang, Valerie A. Luyckx

Open Access Research

First Nations Australians’ experiences of current alcohol policy in Central Australia: evidence of self-determination?

Annalee E. Stearne, KS Kylie Lee, Steve Allsop, Anthony Shakeshaft, Michael Wright

Open Access Research

Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in blood pressure and blood glucose testing: evidence from four districts in Kerala, India

Santosh Kumar Sharma, Devaki Nambiar, Hari Sankar, Jaison Joseph, Surya Surendran, Gloria Benny

Open Access Research

Tackling health inequalities in a public health organization: the case of the Barcelona Public Health Agency

Gloria Pérez, M. Isabel Pasarín, Vanessa Puig-Barrachina, Katherine Pérez, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Lucia Artazcoz, Carme Borrell

Open Access Research

Opening the door to university health research: recommendations for increasing accessibility for individuals with intellectual disability

Brittany M. St. John, Emily Hickey, Edward Kastern, Chad Russell, Tina Russell, Ashley Mathy, Brogan Peterson, Don Wigington, Casey Pellien, Allison Caudill, Libby Hladik, Karla K. Ausderau

Open Access Research

Shaping health: conducting a community health needs assessment in culturally diverse peripheral population groups

Nosaiba Rayan-Gharra, Marganit Ofir-Gutler, Sivan Spitzer

Open Access Research

Health Inequality Monitoring channel on OpenWHO: capacity strengthening through eLearning

Nicole Bergen, Katherine Kirkby, Andreia Baptista, Devaki Nambiar, Anne Schlotheuber, Cecilia Vidal Fuertes, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor

Open Access Research

Nutritional inequalities among under-five children: a geospatial analysis of hotspots and cold spots in 73 low- and middle-income countries

Rafi Amir-ud-Din, Sakina Fawad, Lubna Naz, Sameen Zafar, Ramesh Kumar, Sathirakorn Pongpanich

Open Access Review

The use of legal empowerment to improve access to quality health services: a scoping review

Anuradha Joshi, Marta Schaaf, Dina Zayed

Open Access COVID-19 Research

COVID-19 impact on mental health, healthcare access and social wellbeing – a black community needs assessment

Olihe Okoro, Elyse Carter Vosen, Kay Allen, Janet Kennedy, Renee Roberts, Taiwo Aremu

Open Access Research

Equity and efficiency of public hospitals’ health resource allocation in Guangdong Province, China

Wanmin Su, Liulin Du, Yujun Fan, Peixi Wang

Open Access Research

Employing the equity lens to understand multisectoral partnerships: lessons learned from a mixed-method study in Canada

Suvadra Datta Gupta, Vaidehi Pisolkar, Jacob Albin Korem Alhassan, Allap Judge, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Lise Gauvin, Nazeem Muhajarine

Open Access Research

Impact of community and provider-driven social accountability interventions on contraceptive uptake in Ghana and Tanzania

Petrus S. Steyn, Joanna Paula Cordero, Dela Nai, Donat Shamba, Kamil Fuseini, Sigilbert Mrema, Ndema Habib, My Huong Nguyen, James Kiarie

Open Access Correction

Correction: Social determinants of mental health in Italy: the role of education in the comparison of migrant and Italian residents

Flavia Sesti, Valentina Minardi, Giovanni Baglio, Ruth Bell, Peter Goldblatt, Maurizio Marceca, Maria Masocco, Stefano Campostrini, Michael Marmot

Open Access Research

Incorporating a gender lens into nutrition and health-related policies in Fiji: analysis of policies and stakeholder perspectives

Briar L. McKenzie, Gade Waqa, Sarah Mounsey, Claire Johnson, Mark Woodward, Kent Buse, Anne Marie Thow, Rachael McLean, Jacqui Webster

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Knowledge of COVID-19 and the impact on indigents’ access to healthcare in Burkina Faso

E. Bonnet, Y. Beaugé, M. F. Ba, S. Sidibé, M. De Allegri, V. Ridde

Open Access Comment

Primary health care as a platform for addressing racial discrimination to “leave no one behind” and reduce health inequities

Thomas Hone, Susana Gomez, Mala Rao, Andrêa Ferreira, Shannon Barkley, Theadora Swift Koller

Open Access Research

The evolvement of trust in response to the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants in Norway

Raquel Herrero-Arias, Gaby Ortiz-Barreda, Elżbieta Czapka, Esperanza Diaz

Open Access Research

Social and structural determinants of emergency department use among Arab and Jewish patients in Jerusalem

Shifra Unger, Zvika Orr, Evan Avraham Alpert, Nadav Davidovitch, Ilana Shoham-Vardi

Open Access Research

Socio-economic inequalities in the use of drugs for the treatment of chronic diseases in Italy

A. Di Filippo, S. Perna, A. Pierantozzi, F. Milozzi, F. Fortinguerra, N. Caranci, L. Moro, N. Agabiti, V. Belleudi, G. Cesaroni, A. Nardi, T. Spadea, R. Gnavi, F. Trotta

Open Access Research

Financing care for Severe Stigmatizing Skin Diseases (SSSDs) in Liberia: challenges and opportunities

John Solunta Smith Jr, Karin Diaconu, Sophie Witter, Stefanie Weiland, F. Zeela Zaizay, Sally Theobald, Rosalind McCollum, Karsor Kollie, Jerry Kollie, Hannah Berrian, India Hotopf, Lucas Sempe, Wede Tate, Laura Dean

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Spatial effects of air pollution on the economic burden of disease: implications of health and environment crisis in a post-COVID-19 world

Xiyu Zhang, Qi Xia, Yongqiang Lai, Bing Wu, Wanxin Tian, Wenqing Miao, Xinglin Feng, Ling Xin, Jingying Miao, Nianshi Wang, Qunhong Wu, Mingli Jiao, Linghan Shan, Jianzhao Du, Ye Li, Baoguo Shi

Open Access Research

Mâmawihitowin (bringing the camps together): Perinatal healthcare provider and staff participation in an Indigenous-led experiential intervention for enhancing culturally informed care—a mixed methods study

Grant Bruno, Rhonda Catherine Bell, Brenda Parlee, Patrick Lightning, Ida Bull, Bruce Cutknife, Richard Thomas Oster

Open Access Research

Revisiting revitalization: exploring how structural determinants moderate pathways between neighborhood change and health

Yeeli Mui, Gabby Headrick, Jessie Chien, Craig Pollack, Haneefa T. Saleem

Open Access Research

The right of access to healthcare: an analysis of how legal and institutional frameworks constrain or facilitate access to healthcare for residents in border areas in the East African Community

Freddie Ssengooba, Susan Babirye, Doreen Tuhebwe, Aloysius Ssennyonjo, Steven Ssendagire, Arthur Rutaroh, Leon Mutesa, Mabel Nangami

Open Access Systematic Review

Health effects of Indigenous language use and revitalization: a realist review

D. H. Whalen, Melissa E. Lewis, Stefanie Gillson, Brittany McBeath, Bri Alexander, Kate Nyhan

Open Access Research

Help-seeking and challenges faced by transwomen following exposure to gender-based violence; a qualitative study in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area, Uganda

Tonny Ssekamatte, Aisha Nalugya, John Bosco Isunju, Muyanga Naume, Patience Oputan, Juliet Kiguli, Solomon Tsebeni Wafula, Simon Peter S. Kibira, David Ssekamatte, Luisa Orza, Richard K. Mugambe, Rhoda K. Wanyenze

Open Access Research

Health gender gap in Uganda: do weather effects and water play a role?

Emily Injete Amondo, Oliver K. Kirui, Alisher Mirzabaev

Open Access COVID-19 Comment

The COVID-19 pandemic and health workforce brain drain in Nigeria

Lukman Lawal, Abdulwahab Oluwatomisin Lawal, Opeyemi Pius Amosu, Abdulmujeeb Opeyemi Muhammad-Olodo, Nasir Abdulrasheed, Khalil-ur-Rahman Abdullah, Philemon Barnabas Kuza, Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Ahmed Adeseye Kareem, Abdulwahab Aliu, Taiye Muhammed Elelu, Tonderai Murwira

Open Access Research

Health-related quality of life by household income in Chile: a concentration index decomposition analysis

Rodrigo Severino, Manuel Espinoza, Báltica Cabieses

Open Access Research

Inequities in ambulance allocation associated with transfer delay and mortality in acute coronary syndrome patients: evidence from 89 emergency medical stations in China

Siwen Li, Xuejie Dong, Dongmei Li, Hongjuan Zhang, Shuduo Zhou, Mailikezhati Maimaitiming, Junxiong Ma, Na Li, Qiang Zhou, Yinzi Jin, Zhi-Jie Zheng

Open Access Review

Scoping ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in rehabilitation: (mis)representations and effects

Jessica Ott, Sarah N. Champagne, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Rosemary Morgan

Open Access Comment

Intersectionality, health equity, and EDI: What’s the difference for health researchers?

Christine Kelly, Lisette Dansereau, Jennifer Sebring, Katie Aubrecht, Maggie FitzGerald, Yeonjung Lee, Allison Williams, Barbara Hamilton-Hinch

Open Access Research

Challenges of design, implementation, acceptability, and potential for, biomedical technologies in the Peruvian Amazon

Tiana Bressan, Andrea Valdivia-Gago, Rosa M. Silvera-Ccallo, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Daniel F. Condor, Pierre G. Padilla-Huamantinco, Stalin Vilcarromero, J. Jaime Miranda, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo

Open Access Research

Waiting times in healthcare: equal treatment for equal need?

Juan David García-Corchero, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio

Open Access Research

Preventing early childhood transmission of hepatitis B in remote Aboriginal communities in northern Australia

Richard P. Sullivan, Jane Davies, Paula Binks, Melita McKinnon, Roslyn Gundjirryiir Dhurrkay, Kelly Hosking, Sarah Mariyalawuy Bukulatjpi, Stephen Locarnini, Margaret Littlejohn, Kathy Jackson, Steven Y. C. Tong, Joshua S. Davis

Open Access Research

Achieving optimal heath data impact in rural African healthcare settings: measures to barriers in Bukomansimbi District, Central Uganda

Chraish Miiro, Josephine Caren Ndawula, Enoch Musudo, Olivia Peace Nabuuma, Charles Norman Mpaata, Shamim Nabukenya, Alex Akaka, Olivia Bebembeire, Douglas Sanya

Open Access Research

Catastrophic pharmaceutical expenditure in patients with type 2 diabetes in Iran

Leila Zarei, Najmeh Moradi, Farzad Peiravian, Nazafarin Hatami-Mazinani, Motahareh Mahi-Birjand, Jalal Arabloo, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Who is protected? Determinants of hepatitis B infant vaccination completion among a prospective cohort of migrant workers in Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mary Ellen Gilder, Chanapat Pateekhum, Ahmar Hashmi, Chanchanok Aramrat, Ko Ko Aung, Wimon Miket, Cindy S. Chu, December Win, Marieke Bierhoff, Wichuda Wiwattanacharoen, Wichuda Jiraporncharoen, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Rose McGready

Open Access Systematic Review

The economics of healthcare access: a scoping review on the economic impact of healthcare access for vulnerable urban populations in low- and middle-income countries

Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha, Jinshuo Li, Penelope A. Phillips-Howard, Zahidul Quayyum, Eliud Kibuchi, Md Imran Hossain Mithu, Aishwarya Vidyasagaran, Varun Sai, Farzana Manzoor, Robinson Karuga, Abdul Awal, Ivy Chumo, Vinodkumar Rao, Blessing Mberu, John Smith, Samuel Saidu, Rachel Tolhurst, Sumit Mazumdar, Laura Rosu, Surekha Garimella, Helen Elsey