Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health, 1980-2001.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disparities in prostate cancer (PCa) outcomes and their links to socioeconomic status (SES) have been intensively studied. A relatively low incidence rate and a high proportion of late-stage diagnosis have been documented in studies of Asian populations. For the past 20 years, the trend in the growth of PCa ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Wu CC,Lin CH,Chiang HS,Tang MJ

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Māori men have stark health inequities around non-communicable diseases. This study describes the case of a partnership attempting to develop and implement a culturally centred intervention through a collaborative partnership to potentially address the inequities. In particular, the partnership followed a pa...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Oetzel J,Rarere M,Wihapi R,Manuel C,Tapsell J

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite recent progress in improving access to maternal health services, the utilization of these services remains inequitable among women in developing countries, and rural women are particularly disadvantaged. This study sought to measure i) disparities in the rates of institutional births between rural an...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Amporfu E,Grépin KA

更新日期：2019-08-09 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：:Connecting knowledge with action (KWA) for health equity involves interventions that can redistribute power and resources at local, national, and global levels. Although there is ample and compelling evidence on the nature, distribution, and impact of health inequities, advancing health equity is inhibited by policy a...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Plamondon KM,Caxaj CS,Graham ID,Bottorff JL

更新日期：2019-12-26 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：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to identify female Hansen's disease experience in settlement village in Korea. METHOD:For this study, 11 participants in settlement village were purposively chosen. Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews from July to December 2015. Verbatim transcripts were ana...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Jung HG,Yang YK

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Income-related inequality measures such as the concentration index are often used to describe the unequal distribution of health, health care access, or expenditure in a single measure. This study demonstrates the use of such measures to evaluate the distributional impact of changes in health insurance cover...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Carvalho N,Petrie D,Chen L,Salomon JA,Clarke P

更新日期：2019-04-16 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: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: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：:The unifying theme of the papers in this series is a concern for understanding the everyday practice of governance in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) health systems. Rather than seeing governance as a normative health system goal addressed through the architecture and design of accountability and regulatory fram...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Gilson L,Lehmann U,Schneider H

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Tak province, Thailand migrants and refugees from Myanmar navigate a pluralistic healthcare system to seek Tuberculosis (TB) care from a variety of government and non-governmental providers. This multi-methods qualitative study examined access to TB, TB/HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) tr...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Tschirhart N,Nosten F,Foster AM

更新日期：2016-07-07 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：: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: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：INTRODUCTION:Many countries from the European region, which moved from a government financed and provided health system to social health insurance, would have had the risk of moving away from universal health coverage if they had followed a "traditional" approach. The Eastern European high-income countries studied in t...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Vilcu I,Mathauer I

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The Kenya Partnership for Health (KPH) program began in 1999, and is currently one of the 12 field projects participating in the WHO's 'Towards Unity for Health initiative' implemented to develop partnership synergies in support of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach 1. CONTENT:This paper illustrates how Pr...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Solomon NM

更新日期：2005-06-24 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：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:The allocation of health resources in primary health care institutions (PHCI) is crucial to health reform. China has recently implemented many reform measures emphasizing the provision of primary health care services, with equity as one of the major goals. The aim of this study was to analyze the quantity, q...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Wang S,Xu J,Jiang X,Li C,Li H,Song S,Huang E,Meng Q

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low socioeconomic status can increase the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, but it remains unclear whether this negative association is attributed to inadequate prenatal care. Korea has been adopting a universal healthcare system. All Korean citizens must be enrolled National Health Insurance (NHI) or be r...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Kim MK,Lee SM,Bae SH,Kim HJ,Lim NG,Yoon SJ,Lee JY,Jo MW

更新日期：2018-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies from various countries have observed worse population health in geographical areas with more income inequality. The psychosocial interpretation of this association is that large income disparities are harmful to health because they generate relative deprivation and undermine social cohesion. An alter...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Elstad JI

更新日期：2011-02-03 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: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: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：INTRODUCTION:Vietnam has succeeded in reducing maternal mortality in the last decades. Analysis of survey data however indicate that large inequities exist between different segments of the population. We have analyzed utilization of antenatal care and skilled birth attendance among Vietnamese women of reproductive age...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Goland E,Hoa DT,Målqvist M

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efficiency and equity are both important policy objectives in resource allocation. The discipline of health economics has traditionally focused on maximising efficiency, however addressing inequities in health also requires consideration. Methods to incorporate equity within economic evaluation techniques ra...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Ong KS,Kelaher M,Anderson I,Carter R

更新日期：2009-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between multimorbidity and Preference_Weighted Health Related Quality of Life (PW_HRQoL), a score that combines physical and mental functioning, and how this varies by socioeconomic deprivation and age. DESIGN:The Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) is a cross-sectional representativ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Lawson KD,Mercer SW,Wyke S,Grieve E,Guthrie B,Watt GC,Fenwick EA

更新日期：2013-08-20 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