The equity of China's emergency medical services from 2010-2014.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cervical cancer is a leading cause of cancer related morbidity and mortality among women in Ethiopia, there is lack of information regarding the perception of the community about the disease. METHODS:Focus group discussions were conducted with men, women, and community leaders in the rural settings...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Birhanu Z,Abdissa A,Belachew T,Deribew A,Segni H,Tsu V,Mulholland K,Russell FM

更新日期：2012-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: Research on health equity which mainly utilises population-based surveys, may be hampered by serious selection bias due to a considerable number of invitees declining to participate. Sufficient information from all the non-responders is rarely available to quantify this bias. Predictors of attendance, magn...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Søgaard AJ,Selmer R,Bjertness E,Thelle D

更新日期：2004-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This article aims to clarify the moral underpinning of the policy framework of Healthy Ageing. It is a policy adopted by the World Health Organization designed to operate in alignment with the United Nations (UN) framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the urgency given for the achievement of Univers...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Gebremariam KM,Sadana R

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer stands as the leading cause of cancer related mortality in women worldwide. Mammography screening has the potential to improve prognosis by reducing stage at diagnosis. Socioeconomic inequalities in mammography cancer screening have been widely reported. The influence of organised programs on s...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Relecom A,Arzel B,Perneger T

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Despite the relentless efforts to reduce infant and child mortality with the introduction of the National Expanded Programmes on Immunization (EPI) in 1974, major disparities still exist in immunizations coverage across different population sub-groups. In Kenya, for instance, while the proportion of fully ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Egondi T,Oyolola M,Mutua MK,Elung'ata P

更新日期：2015-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Around the world the life expectancy at birth has risen steadily over time. However, this increase in life years is not equally distributed among different social segments of the population. Studies have demonstrated that social groups living in deprived areas have a shorter life expectancy at birth in compa...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Belon AP,Barros MB

更新日期：2011-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective implementation can maximise the beneficial impacts of health services. It is therefore important to review implementation in the context of Indigenous populations, who suffer some of the greatest disadvantage within developed countries. This paper analyses Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (her...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： McCalman J,Bainbridge R,Percival N,Tsey K

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:BSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Mexican-origin women in the U.S. living in colonias (new-destination Mexican-immigrant communities) along the Texas-Mexico border suffer from a high incidence of food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease. Understanding environmental factors that influence food-related behaviors ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Dean WR,Sharkey JR,Johnson CM,St John J

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggregate urban health statistics mask inequalities. We described maternity care in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai, and examined differences in care and outcomes between more and less deprived groups. METHODS:We collected information through a birth surveillance system covering a population of over 2...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： More NS,Bapat U,Das S,Barnett S,Costello A,Fernandez A,Osrin D

更新日期：2009-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparing the distribution of all cause or cause-specific child mortality in countries by income and its progress over time has not been rigorously monitored, and hence remains unknown. We therefore aimed to analyze child mortality disparities between countries with respect to income level and progression fo...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Cha S,Jin Y

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving maternal and child health remains a public health priority in Ghana. Despite efforts made towards universal coverage, there are still challenges with access to and utilization of maternal health care. This study examined socioeconomic inequalities in maternal health care utilization related to preg...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Novignon J,Ofori B,Tabiri KG,Pulok MH

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the recognition of power as being central to health research collaborations between high income countries and low and middle income countries, there has been insufficient detailed analysis of power within these partnerships. The politics of research in the global south is often considered outside of ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Walsh A,Brugha R,Byrne E

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last several decades, global efforts to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have intensified through combined efforts of international and non-governmental organizations, governments, and religious and civil society groups. One question asked by donors, program implementers and observers a...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Kandala NB,Shell-Duncan B

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following the introduction of user fees in Cambodia, Health Equity Funds (HEF) were developed to enable poor people access to public health services by paying public health providers on their behalf, including non-medical costs for hospitalised beneficiaries (HEFB). The national scheme covers 3.1 million pre...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Jacobs B,Bajracharya A,Saha J,Chhea C,Bellows B,Flessa S,Fernandes Antunes A

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Like most Central European countries Slovakia has experienced a period of socioeconomic changes and at the same time a decline in the mortality rate. Therefore, the aim is to study socioeconomic factors that changed over time and simultaneously contributed to regional differences in mortality. METHODS:The a...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Rosicova K,Bosakova L,Madarasova Geckova A,Rosic M,Andrejkovic M,Žežula I,Groothoff JW,van Dijk JP

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experience higher rates of obesity, chronic disease, and are less active than non-Indigenous Australian women. Lifestyle programs designed to increase physical activity and encourage healthy eating are needed to ameliorate this disparity. The aim of this study was ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Canuto KJ,Spagnoletti B,McDermott RA,Cargo M

更新日期：2013-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Major efforts have been made to improve the health care system in Hunan province, China. The aims of this study were to assess whether and to what extent these efforts have impacted on gender and regional disparities of Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in recent years, especially for less developed areas. METH...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Chen M,Kwaku AB,Chen Y,Huang X,Tan H,Wen SW

更新日期：2014-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evaluation of geographical healthcare accessibility in residential areas provides crucial information to public policy. Traditional methods - such as Physician Population Ratios (PPR) or shortest travel time - offer only a one-dimensional view of accessibility. This paper developed an improved indicator:...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Gao F,Kihal W,Le Meur N,Souris M,Deguen S

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our research group advanced a health insurance theory to explain Canada's cancer care advantages over America. The late Barbara Starfield theorized that Canada's greater primary care-orientation also plays a critically protective role. We tested the resultant Starfield-Gorey theory by examining the effects o...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Gorey KM,Kanjeekal SM,Wright FC,Hamm C,Luginaah IN,Bartfay E,Zou G,Holowaty EJ,Richter NL

更新日期：2015-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The provision of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) is widely accepted in Burkina Faso thanks to large-scale national distribution campaigns. However, household also use other methods of prevention. Thus far, there is little knowledge about the expenditures of these malaria prevention methods, particularly in c...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Bocoum FY,Belemsaga D,Adjagba A,Walker D,Kouanda S,Tinto H

更新日期：2014-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2007 Uruguay began a reform in the health sector towards the construction of a National Integrated Health System (SNIS), based on public insurance with private and public provision. The main objective of the reform was to universalize access to health services. METHODS:Data comes from the first National ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： González C,Triunfo P

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic diseases are more prevalent and occur at a much younger age in Aboriginal people in Australia compared with non-Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people also have higher rates of unplanned hospital readmissions and emergency department presentations. There is a paucity of research on the effectiveness of...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Jayakody A,Passmore E,Oldmeadow C,Bryant J,Carey M,Simons E,Cashmore A,Maher L,Hennessey K,Bunfield J,Terare M,Milat A,Sanson-Fisher R

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current evidence highlights that language discordant clinical encounters seriously compromise patient quality of care and health outcomes. We aimed to characterise patterns of interpreter service use in medical inpatient wards use and explore clinician experience of language discordance. METHODS:Participant...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： White J,Plompen T,Osadnik C,Tao L,Micallef E,Haines T

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Socio-economic inequalities in basic maternal health interventions exist in Egypt, yet little is known about health-seeking of poor households. This paper assesses levels of maternal health-seeking behaviours in women living in poor households in rural Upper Egypt, and compares these to national averages. ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Benova L,Campbell OM,Sholkamy H,Ploubidis GB

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of culture for food consumption is widely acknowledged, as well as the fact that culture-based resources ("cultural capital") differ between educational groups. Since current explanations for educational inequalities in healthy and unhealthy food consumption (e.g. economic capital, social capi...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Kamphuis CBM,Oude Groeniger J,van Lenthe FJ

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to determine the extent to which three core variables (school environment, peer group and family affluence) were associated with unhealthy behaviours and health outcomes among Tuscan adolescents. The unhealthy behaviours considered were smoking, alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle and irregular...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Lazzeri G,Azzolini E,Pammolli A,Simi R,Meoni V,Giacchi MV

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Like other African countries, Tanzania has in recent years, been implementing various exemptions and targeting programmes to protect and ensure equitable access to health care by poorer segments of the population. A body of evidence indicates that exemption policies, while potentially effective in principle,...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Maluka SO

更新日期：2013-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Equitable access to services that promote health and wellbeing is an important component of social justice. A community-engaged participatory qualitative study was conducted in Flint, Michigan, USA, to understand the needs of special populations (young women, perinatal women and new mothers, older women, wom...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Hailemariam M,Felton JW,Key K,Greer D,Jefferson BL,Muhammad J,Miller R,Richie F,Robinson D,Saddler S,Spencer B,Summers M,White JMC,Johnson JE

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a global trend towards the use of ad hoc participation processes that seek to engage grassroots stakeholders in decisions related to municipal infrastructure, land use and services. We present the results of a scholarly literature review examining 14 articles detailing specific cases of these processes to con...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Katz AS,Cheff RM,O'Campo P

更新日期：2015-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the considerable changes in the provision of health care to prisoners in the UK there is little published literature that attempts to examine broader aspects of health and the impact of imprisonment on these, focusing instead on disease specific areas. This is surprising given that one of the main dr...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Plugge E,Douglas N,Fitzpatrick R

更新日期：2011-05-25 00:00:00