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:Despite the recognition of power as being central to health research collaborations between high income countries and low and middle income countries, there has been insufficient detailed analysis of power within these partnerships. The politics of research in the global south is often considered outside of ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Walsh A,Brugha R,Byrne E

更新日期：2016-12-12 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: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：BACKGROUND:Whether smoking accelerates memory recession has been a topic of significant research. However, randomised controlled trials are not easy to carry out, and does not comply with the ethics of research. And observation method which based on the most readily observed data is easy to draw the wrong conclusions w...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Yi Y,Liang Y,Rui G

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effectively addressing the social determinants of health and health equity are critical yet still-emerging areas of public health practice. This is significant for contemporary practice as the egregious impacts of health inequities on health outcomes continue to be revealed. More public health organizations ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： McPherson C,Ndumbe-Eyoh S,Betker C,Oickle D,Peroff-Johnston N

更新日期：2016-08-19 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:Like most Central European countries Slovakia has experienced a period of socioeconomic changes and at the same time a decline in the mortality rate. Therefore, the aim is to study socioeconomic factors that changed over time and simultaneously contributed to regional differences in mortality. METHODS:The a...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Rosicova K,Bosakova L,Madarasova Geckova A,Rosic M,Andrejkovic M,Žežula I,Groothoff JW,van Dijk JP

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aims of this study were to examine indicators of socioeconomic deprivation among secondary school students and to determine associations between household poverty, neighbourhood deprivation and health indicators. METHODS:Data were from a nationally representative sample of 8500 secondary school students...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Denny S,Lewycka S,Utter J,Fleming T,Peiris-John R,Sheridan J,Rossen F,Wynd D,Teevale T,Bullen P,Clark T

更新日期：2016-07-16 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 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: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: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:The strategy of health policy has been changed for improving the performances to meeting the increasing healthcare demands. However, limited evidences were found to prove that the bundled payment was valid for service delivering in public sector. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a bun...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Wu J,Li X,Song Y,Shao H,Shi Q,Qin D,Xie S,Shi L

更新日期：2016-03-10 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: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：INTRODUCTION:Immigrants are among the most vulnerable population groups in North America; they face multidimensional hurdles to obtain proper healthcare. Such barriers result in increased risk of developing acute and chronic conditions. Subsequently a great deal of burden is placed on the healthcare system. Community n...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Shommu NS,Ahmed S,Rumana N,Barron GR,McBrien KA,Turin TC

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mexico has undertaken important efforts to decrease maternal mortality. Health authorities have introduced intercultural innovations to address barriersfaced by indigenous women accessing professional maternal and delivery services. This study examines, from the perspective of indigenous women, the barriers ...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Ibáñez-Cuevas M,Heredia-Pi IB,Meneses-Navarro S,Pelcastre-Villafuerte B,González-Block MA

更新日期：2015-12-23 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: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：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：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：:Reproductive health services are crucial for maternal and child health, but universal health coverage is still not within reach in most societies. Ethiopia's goal of universal health coverage promises access to all necessary services for everyone while providing protection against financial risk. When moving towards u...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Onarheim KH,Taddesse M,Norheim OF,Abdullah M,Miljeteig I

更新日期：2015-09-30 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

authors： Wang X,Sun Y,Mu X,Guan L,Li J

更新日期：2015-08-27 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: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

authors： Chen PC,Tsai CY,Woung LC,Lee YC

更新日期：2015-03-21 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

authors： Egondi T,Oyolola M,Mutua MK,Elung'ata P

更新日期：2015-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Brazilian Government created Participatory Health Councils (PHCs) to allow citizen participation in the public health policy process. PHCs are advisory bodies that operate at all levels of government and that bring together different societal groups to monitor Brazil's health system. Today they are pre...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Kohler JC,Martinez MG

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:One of the main weaknesses of the health system in Turkey is the uneven distribution of physicians. The diversity among geographical districts was huge in the beginning of the 1960s. After the 1980s, the implementation of a two-year compulsory service for newly graduated physicians is an interesting and sp...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Ünal E

更新日期：2015-01-08 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

authors： Oshio T,Kan M

更新日期：2014-12-19 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: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：INTRODUCTION:Equity should be implicit within universal health coverage (UHC) however, emerging evidence is showing that without adequate focus on measurement of equity, vulnerable populations may continue to receive inadequate or inferior health care. This study undertakes a narrative review which aims to: (i) elucida...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Rodney AM,Hill PS

更新日期：2014-10-10 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：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

authors： Mfoafo-M'Carthy M

更新日期：2014-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The prevailing inequities in healthcare have been well addressed in previous research, especially screening program participation, but less attention has been paid to how to overcome these inequities. This paper explores a key factor of a successful improvement project: collaboration with local doulas to r...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Olsson E,Lau M,Lifvergren S,Chakhunashvili A

更新日期：2014-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Major efforts have been made to improve the health care system in Hunan province, China. The aims of this study were to assess whether and to what extent these efforts have impacted on gender and regional disparities of Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in recent years, especially for less developed areas. METH...

journal_title：International journal for equity in health

authors： Chen M,Kwaku AB,Chen Y,Huang X,Tan H,Wen SW

更新日期：2014-04-27 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: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

authors： Soors W,Dkhimi F,Criel B

更新日期：2013-11-15 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