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International Journal for Equity in Health

Issue 1/2019

Content (206 Articles)

The social determinants of chronic disease management: perspectives of elderly patients with hypertension from low socio-economic background in Singapore

Sok Teng Tan, Rina Yu Chin Quek, Victoria Haldane, Joel Jun Kai Koh, Emeline Kai Lin Han, Suan Ee Ong, Fiona Leh Hoon Chuah, Helena Legido-Quigley

He Pikinga Waiora: supporting Māori health organisations to respond to pre-diabetes

Angela Beaton, Carey Manuel, Jade Tapsell, Jeff Foote, John G. Oetzel, Maui Hudson

Measurement and decomposition of income-related inequality in self-rated health among the elderly in China

  • Open Access
  • Research

Hai Gu, Yun Kou, Hua You, Xinpeng Xu, Nichao Yang, Jing Liu, Xiyan Liu, Jinghong Gu, Xiaolu Li

Is there a fair distribution of the structure of dental services in the capitals of the Brazilian Federative Units?

  • Open Access
  • Care
  • Research

Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Ana Graziela Araújo Ribeiro, Aline Sampieri Tonello, Ana Carolina Mendes Pinheiro, José Aquino Júnior, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Núbia Cristina da Silva, Elisa Miranda Costa, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Catherine Staton, Luiz Augusto Facchini, Erika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz

Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in cigarette smoking: the case of Namibia

  • Open Access
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Zunda Chisha, Chijioke O. Nwosu, John Ele-Ojo Ataguba

How does whole of government action address inequities in obesity? A case study from Australia

Melanie Pescud, Ginny Sargent, Paul Kelly, Sharon Friel

(Un)Equitable distribution of health resources and the judicialization of healthcare: 10 years of experience in Brazil

Luciana de Melo Nunes Lopes, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Semíramis Domingues Diniz, Tiago Lopes Coelho, Eli Iola Gurgel Andrade

Confidentiality agreements: a challenge in market regulation

  • Open Access
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Roberto F. Iunes, Manuela Villar Uribe, Janet Bonilla Torres, Marina Morgado Garcia, Carolina Zampirolli Dias, Juliana Alvares-Teodoro, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Augusto Afonso Guerra-Junior

Can social network analysis help to include marginalised young women in structural support programmes in Botswana? A mixed methods study

David Loutfi, Neil Andersson, Susan Law, Jon Salsberg, Jeannie Haggerty, Leagajang Kgakole, Anne Cockcroft

Benefit incidence analysis in public health facilities in India: utilization and benefits at the national and state levels

Diana Bowser, Bryan Patenaude, Manjiri Bhawalkar, Denizhan Duran, Peter Berman

Socioeconomic inequalities in low back pain among older people: the JAGES cross-sectional study

Takaaki Ikeda, Kemmyo Sugiyama, Jun Aida, Toru Tsuboya, Nanae Watabiki, Katsunori Kondo, Ken Osaka

Sociodemographic patterns of health insurance coverage in Namibia

  • Open Access
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Sophie H. Allcock, Elizabeth H. Young, Manjinder S. Sandhu

Experiences with rehabilitation and impact on community participation among adults with physical disability in Colombia: perspectives from stakeholders using a community based research approach

  • Open Access
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María Luisa Toro-Hernández, Alejandra Mondragón-Barrera, Sara Múnera-Orozco, Laura Villa-Torres, Wendy Camelo-Castillo

Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act

Marte E. S. Haaland, Haldis Haukanes, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Karen Marie Moland, Charles Michelo, Margarate Nzala Munakampe, Astrid Blystad

Applying an intersectionality lens to examine health for vulnerable individuals following devolution in Kenya

  • Open Access
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Rosalind McCollum, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Lilian Otiso, Rachel Tolhurst, Maryline Mireku, Tim Martineau, Robinson Karuga, Sally Theobald

Who should pay for the continuity of post-trial health care treatments?

  • Open Access
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Roberto Iunes, Manuela Villar Uribe, Janet Bonilla Torres, Marina Morgado Garcia, Juliana Alvares-Teodoro, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior

The effect of China’s new cooperative medical scheme on health expenditures among the rural elderly

  • Open Access
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Yanbing Zeng, Jiajing Li, Zhipeng Yuan, Ya Fang

Vulnerable populations and the right to health: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon around tuberculosis control

Camila Gianella, M. Amalia Pesantes, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, David A.J. Moore, Claudia Lema

Health reform in Mexico: governance and potential outcomes

  • Open Access
  • Commentary

Jorge L. León-Cortés, Gustavo Leal Fernández, Héctor J. Sánchez-Pérez

Long-term out of pocket expenditure of people with cancer: comparing health service cost and use for indigenous and non-indigenous people with cancer in Australia

  • Open Access
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Emily Callander, Nicole Bates, Daniel Lindsay, Sarah Larkins, Stephanie M. Topp, Joan Cunningham, Sabe Sabesan, Gail Garvey

Inequalities in the prevalence of undiagnosed hypertension among Bangladeshi adults: evidence from a nationwide survey

Sayem Ahmed, Md. Tariqujjaman, Md. Arafat Rahman, Md. Zahid Hasan, Md. Mehedi Hasan

Impact of oral health on Australian urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families: a qualitative study

  • Open Access
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Kaley Butten, Newell W. Johnson, Kerry K. Hall, Maree Toombs, Neil King, Kerry-Ann F. O’Grady

Trends in mortality inequalities in an urban area: the influence of immigration

  • Open Access
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Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Mercè Gotsens, Marc Marí dell’Olmo, Carme Borrell

Challenges to hypertension and diabetes management in rural Uganda: a qualitative study with patients, village health team members, and health care professionals

  • Open Access
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Haeyoon Chang, Nicola L. Hawley, Robert Kalyesubula, Trishul Siddharthan, William Checkley, Felix Knauf, Tracy L. Rabin

Realizing the right to health in Brazil’s Unified Health System through the lens of breast and cervical cancer

Fabiana da Mota Almeida Peroni, Magnus Lindelow, David Oliveira De Souza, Mirja Sjoblom

Socioeconomic inequalities in survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia insured by social security in Mexico: a study of the 2007–2009 cohorts

Angélica Castro-Ríos, Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Blanca E. Pelcastre-Villafuerte , Mario E. Rendón-Macías, Arturo Fajardo-Gutiérrez

Health care equity and access for marginalised young people: a longitudinal qualitative study exploring health system navigation in Australia

  • Open Access
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Fiona Robards, Melissa Kang, Katharine Steinbeck, Catherine Hawke, Stephen Jan, Lena Sanci, Ying Ying Liew, Marlene Kong, Tim Usherwood

Trends and predictors of inequality in childhood stunting in Nepal from 1996 to 2016

  • Open Access
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Mirak Raj Angdembe, Bishnu Prasad Dulal, Kreepa Bhattarai, Sumit Karn

Maternal and newborn health needs for women with walking disabilities; “the twists and turns”: a case study in Kibuku District Uganda

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Rebecca R. Apolot, Elizabeth Ekirapa, Linda Waldman, Rosemary Morgan, Christine Aanyu, Aloysius Mutebi, Evelyne B. Nyachwo, Gloria Seruwagi, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka

Correction to: Benefit incidence analysis in public health facilities in India: utilization and benefits at the national and state levels

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Diana Bowser, Bryan Patenaude, Manjiri Bhawalkar, Denizhan Duran, Peter Berman

Determinants of paying national health insurance premium with mobile phone in Ghana: a cross-sectional prospective study

  • Open Access
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Joseph Marfo Boaheng, Eugenia Amporfu, Daniel Ansong, Anthony Kofi Osei-Fosu

Our lives in boxes: perceived community mediators between housing insecurity and health using a PHOTOVOICE approach

  • Open Access
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Hugo Vásquez-Vera, Ana Fernández, Ana M. Novoa, Lucía Delgado, Joaquín Barcala, Carlos Macías, Carme Borrell

A qualitative study of the dissemination and diffusion of innovations: bottom up experiences of senior managers in three health districts in South Africa

  • Open Access
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Marsha Orgill, Lucy Gilson, Wezile Chitha, Janet Michel, Ermin Erasmus, Bruno Marchal, Bronwyn Harris

Correction to: Socioeconomic inequalities in survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia insured by social security in Mexico: a study of the 2007-2009 cohorts

Angélica Castro-Ríos, Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Blanca E. Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Mario E. Rendón-Macías, Arturo Fajardo-Gutiérrez

Exploring the equity impact of a maternal and newborn health intervention: a qualitative study of participatory women’s groups in rural South Asia and Africa

  • Open Access
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Joanna Morrison, David Osrin, Glyn Alcock, Kishwar Azad, Jyoti Bamjan, Bharat Budhathoki, Abdul Kuddus, Mahfuza Akter Mala, Dharma Manandhar, Albert Nkhata, Shrijana Pathak, Tambosi Phiri, Shibanand Rath, Prasanta Tripathy, Anthony Costello, Tanja A. J. Houweling

The impact of Medicare part D on income-related inequality in pharmaceutical expenditure

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Natalie Carvalho, Dennis Petrie, Linkun Chen, Joshua A. Salomon, Philip Clarke

Sub-Saharan African immigrant women's experiences of (lack of) access to appropriate healthcare in the public health system in the Basque Country, Spain

Iratxe Pérez-Urdiales, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián, Amaia Irazusta, Ida Linander

Is the judicialization of health care bad for equity? A scoping review

  • Open Access
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  • Review

Tatiana S. Andia, Everaldo Lamprea

Impact of out of pocket payments on financial risk protection indicators in a setting with no user fees: the case of Mauritius

  • Open Access
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Ajoy Nundoochan, Yusuf Thorabally, Sooneeraz Monohur, Justine Hsu

Assessing evidence of interventions addressing inequity among migrant populations: a two-stage systematic review

  • Open Access
  • Systematic review

Jirawit Yadee, Mukdarut Bangpan, Kednapa Thavorn, Vivian Welch, Peter Tugwell, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk

Healthcare equity analysis: applying the Tanahashi model of health service coverage to community health systems following devolution in Kenya

  • Open Access
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Rosalind McCollum, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Lilian Otiso, Maryline Mireku, Nelly Muturi, Tim Martineau, Sally Theobald

Judicialization of access to medicines in four Latin American countries: a comparative qualitative analysis

  • Open Access
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Claudia Marcela Vargas-Pelaez, Marina Raijche Mattozo Rover, Luciano Soares, Carine Raquel Blatt, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse, Francisco Augusto Rossi, Luis Guillermo Restrepo, María Cristina Latorre, José Julián López, María Teresa Bürgin, Consuelo Silva, Silvana Nair Leite, Mareni Rocha Farias

Primary non-communicable disease prevention and communication barriers of deaf sign language users: a qualitative study

Severin Pinilla, Sebastian Walther, Arnd Hofmeister, Soeren Huwendiek

Access to community-based HIV services among transgender women in Cambodia: findings from a national survey

Siyan Yi, Say Sok, Srean Chhim, Pheak Chhoun, Navy Chann, Sovannary Tuot, Phalkun Mun, Marija Pantelic

Spatial accessibility to pediatric primary care in Philadelphia: an area-level cross sectional analysis

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Abigail E. Mudd, Yvonne L. Michael, Steven Melly, Kari Moore, Ana Diez-Roux, Christopher B. Forrest

Equitable realization of the right to health in Haiti: how household data inform health seeking behavior and financial risk protection

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Marion Cros, Eleonora Cavagnero, Jean Patrick Alfred, Mirja Sjoblom, Nicolas Collin, Tania Mathurin

Equity in household spending on alcoholic beverages in South Africa: assessing changes between 1995 and 2011

  • Open Access
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Mayara Fontes Marx, Leslie London, Nadine Harker, John E. Ataguba

Conceptual framework of equity-focused implementation research for health programs (EquIR)

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J. Eslava-Schmalbach, N. Garzón-Orjuela, V. Elias, L. Reveiz, N. Tran, E. V. Langlois

The impact and importance of place on health for young people of Pasifika descent in Queensland, Australia: a qualitative study towards developing meaningful health equity indicators

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Jo Durham, Nicola Fa’avale, Andrew Fa’avale, Catrina Ziesman, Eden Malama, Sarai Tafa, Tamaika Taito, Jori Etuale, Mitieli Yaranamua, Ueta Utai, Lisa Schubert

Solidarity against healthcare access restrictions on undocumented immigrants in Spain: the REDER case study

  • Open Access
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Maider Urtaran-Laresgoiti, Janire Fonseca Peso, Roberto Nuño-Solinís

Providers and women’s perspectives on person-centered maternity care: a mixed methods study in Kenya

  • Open Access
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May Sudhinaraset, Katie Giessler, Ginger Golub, Patience Afulani

Disease and disparity in China: a view from stroke and MI disease

Yao Yao, Gordon Liu, Linhong Wang, Hanqing Zhao, Zhenping Zhao, Mei Zhang, Meijiao Wang, Limin Wang

Inequality in breast cancer care in a Brazilian capital city: a comparative analysis of narratives

Ana Lúcia Lobo Vianna Cabral, Luana Giatti, Ángel Martínez-Hernáez, Mariângela Leal Cherchiglia

The comparison of healthcare utilization inequity between URRBMI and NCMS in rural China

  • Open Access
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Zengwen Wang, Yucheng Chen, Tianyi Pan, Xiaodi Liu, Hongwei Hu

Equity in healthcare financing: a case of Iran

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Faride Sadat Jalali, Abdosaleh Jafari, Mohsen Bayati, Peivand Bastani, Ramin Ravangard

Keys to academic success for under-represented minority young investigators: recommendations from the Research in Academic Pediatrics Initiative on Diversity (RAPID) National Advisory Committee

Glenn Flores, Fernando S. Mendoza, Michael R. DeBaun, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, V. Faye Jones, Jason A. Mendoza, Jean L. Raphael, C. Jason Wang

Health need assessment in an indigenous high-altitude population living on an island in Lake Titicaca, Perú

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María Calderón, Rosa Alvarado-Villacorta, Miguel Barrios, Devy Quiroz-Robladillo, Doris Rocío Guzmán Naupay, Ana Obregon, Sthefanny Calderón Chávez, Lisa Glaser, Andres M. Carnero, Carla Cortez-Vergara, David Iglesias Quilca, Jose Colque Gonzales, David Moore

Gender and health social enterprises in Africa: a research agenda

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Kevin McKague, Sarah Harrison

Informing the American Academy of family Physician’s Health Equity strategy – an environmental scan using the Delphi technique

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Kevin A. Kovach, Cory B. Lutgen, Elisabeth F. Callen, Christina M. Hester

“We are called the et cetera”: experiences of the poor with health financing reforms that target them in Kenya

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Evelyn Kabia, Rahab Mbau, Robinson Oyando, Clement Oduor, Godfrey Bigogo, Sammy Khagayi, Edwine Barasa

Scenarios for population health inequalities in 2030 in Europe: the EURO-HEALTHY project experience

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António Alvarenga, Carlos A. Bana e Costa, Carme Borrell, Pedro Lopes Ferreira, Ângela Freitas, Liliana Freitas, Mónica D. Oliveira, Teresa C. Rodrigues, Paula Santana, Maria Lopes Santos, Ana C. L. Vieira

The prevalence of Epilepsy and its co-occurrence with alcohol dependence among polish prisoners

Barbara Stawińska-Witoszyńska, Katarzyna Czechowska, Barbara Więckowska

Short relative leg length is associated with overweight and obesity in Mexican immigrant women

Mireya Vilar-Compte, James Macinko, Beth C. Weitzman, Carlos M. Avendaño-Villela

Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement

  • Open Access
  • Commentary

Alicia Ely Yamin, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Paola Bergallo

The mismeasurement of complexity: provider narratives of patients with complex needs in primary care settings

  • Open Access
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Fiona Webster, Kathleen Rice, Onil Bhattacharyya, Joel Katz, Eric Oosenbrug, Ross Upshur

The impact of financial crisis and austerity policies in Andalusia, Spain: disentangling the mechanisms of social inequalities in health through the perceptions and experiences of experts and the general population

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Javier Alvarez-Galvez, Victor Suarez-Lledo, Gloria Martinez-Cousinou, Eider Muniategui-Azkona, Auxiliadora Gonzalez-Portillo

A systematic review of reasons for and against asking patients about their socioeconomic contexts

  • Open Access
  • Systematic review

Andrew Moscrop, Sue Ziebland, Nia Roberts, Andrew Papanikitas

Languishing in the crossroad? A scoping review of intersectional inequalities in mental health

  • Open Access
  • Review

Nadja Fagrell Trygg, Per E. Gustafsson, Anna Månsdotter

Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia

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Joseph Mumba Zulu, Astrid Blystad, Marte E. S. Haaland, Charles Michelo, Haldis Haukanes, Karen Marie Moland

Through health workers’ eyes: a qualitative study of health service provision for migrants at Schengen border

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Mateja Žagar, Danica Rotar Pavlič, Igor Švab, Alem Maksuti, Boris Ilić, Martina Smrekar, Irena Kovačević

Recognition: key to the entrepreneurial strategies of rural coalitions in advancing access to health care

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Kathy L. Rush, Mike Chiasson, Mary Butterfield, Silvia Straka, Barbara Jean Buckley

Social and emotional developmental vulnerability at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales: a population data linkage study

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Anna Williamson, Alison Gibberd, Mark J. Hanly, Emily Banks, Sandra Eades, Kathleen Clapham, Kathleen Falster

Mental health problems and socioeconomic disadvantage: a controlled household study in rural Ethiopia

Yohannes Hailemichael, Charlotte Hanlon, Kebede Tirfessa, Sumaiyah Docrat, Atalay Alem, Girmay Medhin, Abebaw Fekadu, Crick Lund, Dan Chisholm, Damen Hailemariam

Access to Norwegian healthcare system – challenges for sub-Saharan African immigrants

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Vivian N. Mbanya, Laura Terragni, Abdi A. Gele, Esperanza Diaz, Bernadette N. Kumar

The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

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Astrid Blystad, Haldis Haukanes, Getnet Tadele, Marte E. S. Haaland, Richard Sambaiga, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Karen Marie Moland

Socioeconomic inequalities in post-natal health checks for the newborn in Vietnam

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Nguyen Duc Lam, Nguyen Duy Anh, Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, Truong Quang Vinh, Vu Thi Mai Anh, Vu Duy Kien

Healthcare-seeking behavior among pregnant women in the Chinese hierarchical medical system: a cross-sectional study

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Guihao Liu, Yunlian Xue, Zhenzhu Qian, Liuna Yang, Yunbin Yang, Qingshan Geng, Xin Wang

Effects of racism on the socio-emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal Australian children

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D. M. Macedo, L. G. Smithers, R. M. Roberts, Y. Paradies, L. M. Jamieson

Challenges to diabetes self-management for adults with type 2 diabetes in low-resource settings in Mexico City: a qualitative descriptive study

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Robin Whittemore, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Selene De La Cerda, Denise Marron, Rosabelle Conover, Roberta Delvy, Annel Lozano-Marrufo, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

Leaving no one behind? Social inclusion of health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

  • Open Access
  • Systematic review

Suzanne G. M. van Hees, Timothy O’Fallon, Miranda Hofker, Marleen Dekker, Sarah Polack, Lena Morgon Banks, Ernst J. A. M. Spaan

Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania

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Richard Sambaiga, Haldis Haukanes, Karen Marie Moland, Astrid Blystad

Prevalence and determinants of pre-adolescent (5–14 years) acute and chronic undernutrition in Lay Armachiho District, Ethiopia

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Eleni Belay, Simegnew Handebo, Terefe Derso, Amare Tariku, Mekonnen Sisay

‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia

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Getnet Tadele, Haldis Haukanes, Astrid Blystad, Karen Marie Moland

Salutogenic health promotion program for migrant women at risk of social exclusion

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A. Bonmatí-Tomas, M. C. Malagón-Aguilera, S. Gelabert-Vilella, C. Bosch-Farré, L. Vaandrager, M. M. García-Gil, D. Juvinyà-Canal

Socioeconomic inequalities in maternal health care utilization in Ghana

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Jacob Novignon, Bernice Ofori, Kwasi Gyabaa Tabiri, Mohammad Habibullah Pulok

Nutrition among children of migrant construction workers in Ahmedabad, India

Divya Ravindranath, Jean-Francois Trani, Lora Iannotti

Ethics, health policy-making and the economic crisis: a qualitative interview study with European policy-makers

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Caroline Brall, Peter Schröder-Bäck, Rouven Porz, Farhang Tahzib, Helmut Brand

Enhancing the value of women’s reproductive rights through community based interventions in upper Egypt governorates: a randomized interventional study

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Ammal M. Metwally, Rehan M. Saleh, Lobna A. El-Etreby, Somia I. Salama, Ahmed Aboulghate, Hala A. Amer, Asmaa M. Fathy, Reham Yousry, Sherif E. El-Deeb, Ghada A. Abdel-Latif, Dalia M. Elmosalami, Nihad A. Ibrahim, Osama M. Azmy, Tamer Taha, Hanaa M. Imam, Mohamed Abdel Rahman, Samia A. R. Hemeda

Long-term trends in smoking prevalence and its socioeconomic inequalities in Korea, 1992–2016

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Youngs Chang, Hee-Yeon Kang, Dohee Lim, Hong-Jun Cho, Young-Ho Khang

Effects of an empowerment program for survivors of sexual violence on attitudes and beliefs: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

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John Quattrochi, Rosalie Biaba, Ragnhild Nordås, Gudrun Østby, Susanne Alldén, Aline Cikara, Esther Namegabe, Christina Amisi

Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England

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Asam Latif, Justin Waring, Kristian Pollock, Josie Solomon, Nargis Gulzar, Shahida Choudhary, Claire Anderson

The historical roots and seminal research on health equity: a referenced publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) analysis

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Qiang Yao, Xin Li, Fei Luo, Lianping Yang, Chaojie Liu, Ju Sun

Underpinnings of entangled ethnical and gender inequalities in obesity in Cochabamba-Bolivia: an intersectional approach

Yercin Mamani Ortiz, Per E. Gustafsson, Miguel San Sebastián Chasco, Ada Ximena Armaza Céspedes, Jenny Marcela Luizaga López, Daniel Elving Illanes Velarde, Paola A. Mosquera Méndez

Assessing changes in costs of maternal postpartum services between 2013 and 2014 in Burkina Faso

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Danielle Yugbaré Belemsaga, Anne Goujon, Olivier Degomme, Tchichihouenichidah Nassa, Els Duysburgh, Seni Kouanda, Marleen Temmerman

Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in stunting prevalence in Latin America and the Caribbean countries: differences between quintiles and deciles

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Maria del Pilar Flores-Quispe, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Maria Fátima S. Maia, Leonardo Z. Ferreira, Fernando C. Wehrmeister

Antidepressant medication use among working age first-generation migrants resident in Finland: an administrative data linkage study

Tania Bosqui, Ari Väänänen, Andre Buscariolli, Aki Koskinen, Dermot O’Reilly, Auli Airila, Anne Kouvonen

Does public service motivation matter in Moroccan public hospitals? A multiple embedded case study

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Zakaria Belrhiti, Wim Van Damme, Abdelmounim Belalia, Bruno Marchal

Socioeconomic inequality in dental care utilization in Iran: a decomposition approach

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Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Seyed Fahim Irandoost, Yahya Salimi

Reported Māori consumer experiences of health systems and programs in qualitative research: a systematic review with meta-synthesis

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Suetonia C. Palmer, Harriet Gray, Tania Huria, Cameron Lacey, Lutz Beckert, Suzanne G. Pitama

Educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality among people with gout: a register-based matched cohort study in southern Sweden

  • Open Access
  • Gout
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Ali Kiadaliri, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Aleksandra Turkiewicz, Martin Englund

Predicting poverty. Data mining approaches to the health and demographic surveillance system in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua

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C. Källestål, E. Blandón Zelaya, R. Peña, W. Peréz, M. Contreras, L. Å. Persson, O. Sysoev, K. Ekholm Selling

Barriers to equitable maternal health in Aotearoa New Zealand: an integrative review

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Pauline Dawson, Chrys Jaye, Robin Gauld, Jean Hay-Smith

Defining ‘actionable’ high- costhealth care use: results using the Canadian Institute for Health Information population grouping methodology

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Maureen Anderson, Crawford W. Revie, Henrik Stryhn, Cordell Neudorf, Yvonne Rosehart, Wenbin Li, Meriç Osman, David L. Buckeridge, Laura C. Rosella, Walter P. Wodchis

Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilization in four Ethiopian regions; a cross-sectional study

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Atkure Defar, Yemisrach B. Okwaraji, Zemene Tigabu, Lars Åke Persson, Kassahun Alemu

Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition

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Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, David Tipene-Leach, Curtis Walker, Belinda Loring, Sarah-Jane Paine, Papaarangi Reid

Explaining income-related inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors in Tunisian adults during the last decade: comparison of sensitivity analysis of logistic regression and Wagstaff decomposition analysis

Olfa Saidi, Nada Zoghlami, Kathleen E. Bennett, Paola Andrea Mosquera, Dhafer Malouche, Simon Capewell, Habiba Ben Romdhane, Martin O’Flaherty

Residential exposure to natural outdoor environments and general health among older adults in Shanghai, China

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Baishi Huang, Ye Liu, Zhiqiang Feng, Jamie R. Pearce, Ruoyu Wang, Yina Zhang, Jie Chen

Ongoing challenges in access to diabetes care among the indigenous population: perspectives of individuals living in rural Guatemala

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Edwin Nieblas-Bedolla, Kent D. W. Bream, Allison Rollins, Frances K. Barg

What constitutes patient-centred care for women: a theoretical rapid review

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Jessica U. Ramlakhan, Angel M. Foster, Sherry L. Grace, Courtney R. Green, Donna E. Stewart, Anna R. Gagliardi

Integrating community health representatives with health care systems: clinical outcomes among individuals with diabetes in Navajo Nation

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Letizia Trevisi, John E. Orav, Sidney Atwood, Christian Brown, Cameron Curley, Caroline King, Olivia Muskett, Hannah Sehn, Katrina A. Nelson, Mae-Gilene Begay, Sonya S. Shin

Needs and perceptions regarding healthy eating among people at risk of food insecurity: a qualitative analysis

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Laura A. van der Velde, Linde A. Schuilenburg, Jyothi K. Thrivikraman, Mattijs E. Numans, Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong

Inequality of health stock and the relation to national wealth

Isma Addi Jumbri, Shinya Ikeda, Masayuki Jimichi, Chika Saka, Shunsuke Managi

The respective parts of incidence and lethality in socioeconomic differences in cancer mortality. An analysis of the French network Cancer registries (FRANCIM) data

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