Control under times of uncertainty: the relationship between hospital competition and physician-patient disputes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension has become a global health challenge given its high prevalence and but low awareness and detection. Whether the actual prevalence of hypertension has been estimated is important, especially for the poor. This study aimed to measure tested prevalence and self-reported prevalence of hypertension a...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Su M,Si Y,Zhou Z,Shen C,Dong W,Fan X,Wang X,Wei X

更新日期：2018-06-15 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: 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：BACKGROUND:Record numbers of people, across the world, are forced to be displaced because of conflict or other violations of their human rights, thus becoming refugees. Often, refugees not only have a higher burden of disease but also compromised access to healthcare, as they face many barriers, such as limited knowled...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Floyd A,Sakellariou D

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A key element of the global drive to universal health coverage is ensuring access to needed health services for everyone, and to pursue this goal in an equitable way. This requires concerted efforts to reduce disparities in access through understanding and acting on barriers facing communities with the low...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： O'Connell TS,Bedford KJ,Thiede M,McIntyre D

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phenomenon of inequitable healthcare utilization in rural China interests policymakers and researchers; however, the inequity has not been actually measured to present the magnitude and trend using nationally representative data. METHODS:Based on the National Health Service Survey (NHSS) in 1993, 1998, ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Zhou Z,Su Y,Gao J,Campbell B,Zhu Z,Xu L,Zhang Y

更新日期：2013-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the debate on 'Third options' for health care delivery in low- and middle-income countries it is proposed that self-help should play a larger role. Self-help is expected to contribute towards improving population health outcomes and reducing government health care expenditure. We review scope and limitations of sel...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Nayar K,Kyobutungi C,Razum O

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Self-rated health represents a reliable and important health measure related to general health and quality of life. This study aimed to identify the differences of health states of rural residents in a lower middle income setting in China and its associated factors. METHODS:A descriptive study of a stratifie...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Wang L,Dong W,Ou Y,Chen S,Chen J,Jiang Q

更新日期：2018-11-08 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：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:Older adults are more prone to various diseases. Health insurance becomes effective mechanism to relieve financial burden when the insured is sick. In China, most older adults live in the countryside, and New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme is a kind of health insurance system in rural areas. The relationsh...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Zhai S,Yuan S,Dong Q

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opioid use is a severe problem in Iran. Despite methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs being one of the most important treatment strategies for reducing individual and public harms associated with opioid use, a large proportion of Iranian patients refuse to participate in such treatment programs. ME...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Khazaee-Pool M,Moeeni M,Ponnet K,Fallahi A,Jahangiri L,Pashaei T

更新日期：2018-06-11 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：: Poverty is often identified as a major barrier to human development. It is also a powerful brake on accelerated progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. Poverty is also a major cause of maternal mortality, as it prevents many women from getting proper and adequate medical attention due to their inability to ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Lanre-Abass BA

更新日期：2008-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large inequalities of mortality by most cancers in general, by mouth and pharynx cancer in particular, have been associated to behaviour and geopolitical factors. The assessment of socioeconomic covariates of cancer mortality may be relevant to a full comprehension of distal determinants of the disease, and ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Antunes JL,Borrell C,Pérez G,Boing AF,Wünsch-Filho V

更新日期：2008-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At the beginning of 2007, health care reforms were implemented in Hungary in order to decrease public expenditure on health care. Reforms involved the increase of co-payments for pharmaceuticals and the introduction of co-payments for health care services. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this paper is to examine...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Baji P,Pavlova M,Gulácsi L,Groot W

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although health equity issues at regional, national and international levels are receiving increasing attention, health equity issues at the local level have been virtually overlooked. Here, we describe here a comprehensive equity assessment carried out by the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer-Haiti (HAS) in 2003. H...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Perry HB,King-Schultz LW,Aftab AS,Bryant JH

更新日期：2007-08-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing loss is a prevalent but neglected disease, especially in low- or middle-income countries. The role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to deliver primary ear and hearing care has been explored in several studies from a technical standpoint, but understanding perceptions, barriers, and enablers of such...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： O'Donovan J,Namanda AS,Hamala R,Winters N,Bhutta MF

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：: This review investigates the health of immigrants to Canada by critically examining differences in health status between immigrants and the native-born population and by tracing how the health of immigrants changes after settling in the country. Fifty-one published empirical studies met the inclusion criteria for thi...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： De Maio FG

更新日期：2010-11-24 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:Health inequalities disproportionally affect indigenous people in Guatemala. Previous studies have noted that the disadvantageous situation of indigenous people is the result of complex and structural elements such as social exclusion, racism and discrimination. These elements need to be addressed in order t...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Cerón A,Ruano AL,Sánchez S,Chew AS,Díaz D,Hernández A,Flores W

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dying at home is the most frequent preference of patients with advanced chronic conditions, their caregivers, and the general population. However, most deaths continue to occur in hospitals. The objective of this study was to analyse the socioeconomic inequalities in the place of death in urban areas of Medi...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Nolasco A,Fernández-Alcántara M,Pereyra-Zamora P,Cabañero-Martínez MJ,Copete JM,Oliva-Arocas A,Cabrero-García J

更新日期：2020-12-03 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:The purpose of this article is to describe an interventional project in a University Hospital. It explains the adjustments that were made to provide good care for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an acute care setting in Western Switzerland. It is not the exposition of the results...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Lalive d'Epinay Raemy S,Paignon A

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical specialization is a key feature of biomedicine, and is a growing, but weakly understood aspect of health systems in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including India. Emergency medicine is an example of a medical specialty that has been promoted in India by several high-income country st...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Sriram V,George A,Baru R,Bennett S

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions for child health. Still, many children are not able to receive completed immunization status. Wealth - related inequality in immunization is considered a major reason for equitable coverage of immunization in Pakistan. Therefore, we exami...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Raza O,Lodhi FS,Morasae EK,Majdzadeh R

更新日期：2018-08-17 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:Inequalities in health across social class, gender and regional context in Spain are well-known; however, there is a lack of research examining how these dimensions of inequality interact. This study explores self-rated health (SRH) inequalities across intersectional positions of gender, social class and reg...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Pedrós Barnils N,Eurenius E,Gustafsson PE

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The theory of fundamental causes explains why health disparities persist over time, even as risk factors, mechanisms, and diseases change. Using an intersectional framework, we evaluated multifactorial discrimination as a fundamental cause of mental health disparities. METHODS:Using baseline data from the P...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Khan M,Ilcisin M,Saxton K

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00