Effect of an organised screening program on socioeconomic inequalities in mammography practice, knowledge and attitudes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the "End TB Strategy", setting new ambitious goals for elimination of tuberculosis (TB). In contrast with previous efforts to control TB, the new strategy adopted the protection and promotion of human rights in TB prevention and care as a core pillar. This...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Gianella C,Pesantes MA,Ugarte-Gil C,Moore DAJ,Lema C

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Overcoming continuing polarization regarding judicial enforcement of health rights in Latin America requires clarifying divergent normative and political premises, addressing the lack of reliable empirical data, and establishing the conditions for fruitful inter-sectoral, inter-disciplinary dialogue. ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Yamin AE,Pichon-Riviere A,Bergallo P

更新日期：2019-07-04 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：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:An important health issue in urban areas is how changes arising from the regeneration of city-areas affect social determinants of health and equity. This paper examines the impacts attributable to a new fish market and to delays in the regeneration of a port area in a deteriorated region of the Bay of Pasaia...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Serrano E,Larrañaga I,Morteruel M,Baixas de Ros MD,Basterrechea M,Martinez D,Aldasoro E,Bacigalupe A

更新日期：2016-09-15 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：INTRODUCTION:Health care financing reforms in both China and Vietnam have resulted in greater financial difficulties in accessing health care, especially for the rural poor. Both countries have been developing rural health insurance for decades. This study aims to evaluate and compare equity in access to health care in...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Liu X,Tang S,Yu B,Phuong NK,Yan F,Thien DD,Tolhurst R

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims at quantifying the level and changes over time of inequality in age-specific mortality and life expectancy between the 19 Norwegian counties from 1980 to 2014. METHODS:Data on population and mortality by county was obtained from Statistics Norway for 1980-2014. Life expectancy and age-specif...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Skaftun EK,Verguet S,Norheim OF,Johansson KA

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggested that the racial differences in U.S. suicide rates are decreasing, particularly for African Americans, but the cause behind the temporal variations has yet to be determined. This study aims to investigate the long-term trends in suicide mortality in the U.S. between 1983 and 2012 an...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Wang Z,Yu C,Wang J,Bao J,Gao X,Xiang H

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2004, The Kenyan government removed user fees in public dispensaries and health centers and replaced them with registration charges of 10 and 20 Kenyan shillings (2004 $US 0.13 and $0.25), respectively. This was termed the 10/20 policy. We examined the effect of this policy on the coverage, timing, source...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Dennis ML,Benova L,Goodman C,Barasa E,Abuya T,Campbell OMR

更新日期：2020-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although government has implemented medical-aid policy that provides assistance to the poor with almost free medical services, there are low-income people who do not receive necessary medical services in Korea. The aim of this study is to highlight the characteristics of Medical-Aid enrollees, the poor not e...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Choi JW,Park EC,Chun SY,Han KT,Han E,Kim TH

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This narrative review aimed to identify and categorize the barriers and facilitators to the provision of brief intervention and behavioral change programs that target several risk behaviors among the Indigenous populations of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. METHODS:A systematic database search was conduc...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Fazelipour M,Cunningham F

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite free healthcare to pregnant women and children under the age of six, access to healthcare has failed to secure better child health outcomes amongst all children of the country. There is growing evidence of socioeconomic gradient on child health outcomes METHODS:The objectives of this study were to m...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Nkonki LL,Chopra M,Doherty TM,Jackson D,Robberstad B

更新日期：2011-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:If an intervention is not well spatially targeted, appropriate levels of uptake, efficacy, long-term compliance and improved health outcomes are unlikely to be attained. Effective health interventions should seek to achieve not only absolute improvements in health but also to reduce inequity. There is ofte...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Hanson S,Jones A

更新日期：2015-10-29 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：INTRODUCTION:The global scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV patients has led to concerns regarding inequities in utilization of ART services in resource-limited contexts. In this paper, we describe regional and sex differentials in the distribution of ART among adult HIV patients in Ghana. We highlight the...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Dako-Gyeke P,Snow R,Yawson AE

更新日期：2012-10-16 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: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: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:Through a number of healthcare reforms, Kenya has demonstrated its intention to extend financial risk protection and service coverage for poor and vulnerable groups. These reforms include the provision of free maternity services, user-fee removal in public primary health facilities and a health insurance sub...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Kabia E,Mbau R,Oyando R,Oduor C,Bigogo G,Khagayi S,Barasa E

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multimorbidity in primary care is a challenge not only for developing countries but also for low and medium income countries (LMIC). Health services in LMIC countries are being provided by both public and private health care providers. However, a critical knowledge gap exists on understanding the true extent...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Pati S,Swain S,Knottnerus JA,Metsemakers JFM,van den Akker M

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resources for coronary revascularisations have increased substantially since the early 1990s in Finland. At the same time, ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality has decreased markedly. This study aims to examine how these changes have influenced trends in absolute and relative differences between socioecon...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Lumme S,Manderbacka K,Keskimäki I

更新日期：2017-02-20 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: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：:This editorial provides an overview of a thematic series that brings attention to the persistently deficient and unequal access to sexual and reproductive health services for young women in sub-Saharan Africa. It represents an effort to analyze the multifaceted relationship between laws, policies and access to service...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Blystad A,Haukanes H,Tadele G,Moland KM

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the persistence of Indigenous health inequities across national contexts, many countries have adopted strategies to improve the health of Indigenous peoples. Governmental recognition of the unique health needs of Indigenous populations is necessary for the development of targeted programs and policies ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Ferdinand A,Lambert M,Trad L,Pedrana L,Paradies Y,Kelaher M

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence from low and middle income countries (LMICs) suggests that maternal mortality is more prevalent among the poor whereas access to maternal health services is concentrated among the rich. In Bangladesh substantial inequities exist both in the use of facility-based basic obstetric care and for home bir...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Quayyum Z,Khan MN,Quayyum T,Nasreen HE,Chowdhury M,Ensor T

更新日期：2013-04-02 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:Implementation of known effective interventions would necessitate the reduction of malaria burden by half by the year 2010. Identifying geographical disparities of coverage of these interventions at small area level is useful to inform where greatest scaling-up efforts should be concentrated. They also provi...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Kazembe LN,Appleton CC,Kleinschmidt I

更新日期：2007-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Evidence to date indicates that patients from ethnic minority backgrounds may experience disparity in the quality and safety of health care they receive due to a range of socio-cultural factors. Although heightened risk of patient safety events is of key concern, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Chauhan A,Walton M,Manias E,Walpola RL,Seale H,Latanik M,Leone D,Mears S,Harrison R

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00