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 services in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania. Using a comparative perspective and qualitative research methodology, the papers presented in this issue explore legal, political and social factors and circumstances that condition access to sexual and reproductive health services within and across the three countries. Through these examples we show the often inconsistent and even paradoxical relationship between the formal law and practices on the ground. Particular emphasis is placed on safe abortion services as an intensely politicized issue in global sexual and reproductive health. In addition to the presentation of the individual papers, this editorial comments on the global politics of abortion which represents a critical context for the regional and local developments in sexual and reproductive health policy and care provision in general, and for the contentious issue of abortion in particular.
journal_name
Int J Equity Healthjournal_title
International journal for equity in healthauthors
Blystad A,Haukanes H,Tadele G,Moland KMdoi
10.1186/s12939-020-1157-1subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-03-17 00:00:00pages
39issue
1issn
1475-9276pii
10.1186/s12939-020-1157-1journal_volume
19pub_type
社论abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2002 Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and its development partners initiated a new paradigm for the health sector by electing to Contract-Out (CO) the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) to non-state providers (NSPs). This model is generally regarded as successful, but literature is scar...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-018-0847-4
更新日期：2018-10-05 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-018-0803-3
更新日期：2018-06-25 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-015-0154-2
更新日期：2015-02-27 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-020-01202-7
更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the centrality of health personnel to the health of the population, the planning, production and management of human resources for health remains underdeveloped in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In addition to the general shortage of health workers, there are significant inequalities ...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-017-0575-1
更新日期：2017-06-30 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-020-01324-y
更新日期：2020-12-03 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
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1186/s12939-015-0181-z
更新日期：2015-06-09 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-020-1149-1
更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been largely used in the world during the past decades, since they are known for enhancing children's human development and promoting social inclusion for the most deprived groups. In other words, CCTs seek to create life chances for children to overcome poverty and e...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1186/s12939-017-0647-2
更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00
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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-016-0357-1
更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent economic and financial crisis in Portugal urged the Portuguese Government in April 2011 to request financial assistance from the troika austerity bail out program to get aid for its government debt. The troika agreement included health reforms and austerity measures of the National Health Service ...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-017-0679-7
更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:People experiencing homelessness are often marginalized and are known to face barriers to accessing acceptable and respectful healthcare services. This study examines the experience of accessing hospital-based services of persons experiencing homelessness or vulnerable housing in southeastern Ontario and con...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-019-1004-4
更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the extent of self-reported chronic diseases, self-rated health status (SRH) and healthcare utilization among residents in 1-2 room Housing Development Board (HDB) apartments in Toa Payoh. MATERIALS & METHODS:The study population included a convenience sample of residents from 931 housing developme...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-11-44
更新日期：2012-08-16 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:We simulate and analyze Total Health Expenditure (THE) in financial sources and other economic indicators (such as THE per capita, GDP, etc.) in a province of China from 2002 to 2012 on System Dynamics. METHODS:Based on actual data and certain mathematical methods, we use system dynamic software to constr...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-015-0203-x
更新日期：2015-08-27 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-11-36
更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of access to health care is a persistent condition for most African indigents, to which the common technical approach of targeting initiatives is an insufficient antidote. To overcome the standstill, an integrated technical and political approach is needed. Such policy shift is dependent on political su...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-12-91
更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:The prevalence of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) in the Western world has generated considerable discussion regarding best practices in the outpatient treatment of the seriously mentally ill. Although problems encountered by ethnic minority communities in the various health care systems have been studie...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-014-0069-3
更新日期：2014-09-06 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Inequity in use of physician services has been detected even within health care systems with universal coverage of the population through public insurance schemes. In this study we analyse and compare inequity in use of physician visits (GP and specialists) in Norway based on data from the Surveys of Living ...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-10-25
更新日期：2011-06-15 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-7-14
更新日期：2008-06-04 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion coincided with a preponderance of research, worldwide, on the social determinants of health and health inequities. Despite the establishment of a 'health inequities knowledge base', the precise roles for municipal governments in reducing health inequities at the l...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-9-13
更新日期：2010-05-25 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-018-0771-7
更新日期：2018-05-24 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-019-0948-8
更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:It is well known that lower income is associated with poorer health, but poverty has several dimensions other than income. In the current study, we investigated the associations between multidimensional poverty and health variables. METHODS:Using micro data obtained from a nationwide population survey in ...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-014-0128-9
更新日期：2014-12-19 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-018-0865-2
更新日期：2018-09-24 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-017-0536-8
更新日期：2017-02-20 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-019-1006-2
更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Latin America (LA) has experienced constant economic and political crises that coincide with periods of greater inequality. Between 1996 and 2007 Ecuador went through one of the greatest political and socio-economic crises in Latin America, a product of neo-liberal economic growth strategies. Between 2007 an...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-020-01359-1
更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prior to 2007, forced sex with male children in South Africa did not count as rape but as "indecent assault", a much less serious offence. This study sought to document prevalence of male sexual violence among school-going youth. DESIGN:A facilitated self-administered questionnaire in nine of the 11 official...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-7-20
更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:Literature shows socioeconomic disparities are related to various aspects of diabetes care. However, few studies have explored the relationship between socioeconomics and healthcare outcomes, particularly with regard to preventable hospitalization. This cohort study employed hierarchical modelling to evalu...
journal_title：International journal for equity in health
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12939-015-0160-4
更新日期：2015-03-21 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1475-9276-11-24
更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00
