Connecting knowledge with action for health equity: a critical interpretive synthesis of promising practices.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inequitable allocation of health resources is a worldwide problem, and it is also one of the obstacles facing for health services utilization in China. A new round of health care reform which contains the important aspect of improving the equity in health resource allocation was released by Chinese gover...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Liu W,Liu Y,Twum P,Li S

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While in general a country's life expectancy increases with national income, some countries "punch above their weight", while some "punch below their weight" - achieving higher or lower life expectancy than would be predicted by their per capita income. Discovering which conditions or policies contribute to ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Freeman T,Gesesew HA,Bambra C,Giugliani ERJ,Popay J,Sanders D,Macinko J,Musolino C,Baum F

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family planning and maternal care services have become increasingly available in West Africa but the level of non-use remains high. This unfavorable outcome may be partly due to the unaffordability of reproductive health care services. METHODS:Using the Demographic Health Survey data from Burkina Faso, Nige...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Ogundele OJ,Pavlova M,Groot W

更新日期：2020-03-27 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:Aging and the chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) challenge the Chinese government in the process of providing hospitalization services fairly and reasonably. The Chinese government has developed the basic medical insurance system to solve the problem of "expensive medical cost and difficult medical ser...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Fu XZ,Wang LK,Sun CQ,Wang DD,He JJ,Tang QX,Zhou QY

更新日期：2020-01-06 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: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:While psychosocial theory claims that socioeconomic status (SES), acting through social comparisons, has an important influence on susceptibility to disease, materialistic theory says that socioeconomic position (SEP) and related access to material resources matter more. However, the relative role of SEP ver...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Axelsson Fisk S,Merlo J

更新日期：2017-05-04 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: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：INTRODUCTION:Tobacco use in China is disproportionally distributed among rural and urban populations with rural people smoking more. While there is a wealth of evidence on the association between tobacco use among rural people and their lower socio-economic status (SES), how social structural factors contribute to rura...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Mao A,Yang T,Bottorff JL,Sarbit G

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The demographic shift and epidemiologic transition in Brazil have drawn attention to ways of measuring population health that complement studies of mortality. In this paper, we investigate regional differences in healthy life expectancy based on information from the National Health Survey (PNS), 2013. METHO...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Szwarcwald CL,Souza Júnior PR,Marques AP,Almeida WD,Montilla DE

更新日期：2016-11-17 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: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: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: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: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: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:China had proposed the unification of equity and efficiency since the launch of the new round of health system reform in 2009. And the central government gave priority to the development of primary health care (PHC) whilst ensuring its availability and improving its efficiency. This study aimed to evaluate t...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Zhang Y,Wang Q,Jiang T,Wang J

更新日期：2018-09-12 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:The concept of social capital has been extensively used to explain the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescent health and well-being. Much less is known about the specific mechanism through which social capital impacts the relationship. This paper investigates whether an individual's p...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Buijs T,Maes L,Salonna F,Van Damme J,Hublet A,Kebza V,Costongs C,Currie C,De Clercq B

更新日期：2016-12-12 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: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: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：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: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

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: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：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 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