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International Journal for Equity in Health

Issue 1/2020

Content (224 Articles)

Care Research

Ethnicity recording in health and social care data collections in Ireland: where and how is it measured and what is it used for?

Ailish Hannigan, Nazmy Villarroel, Maria Roura, Joseph LeMaster, Alphonse Basogomba, Colette Bradley, Anne MacFarlane

Open Access Research

The state of enrollment on the National Health Insurance Scheme in rural Ghana after eight years of implementation

Anthony Kwarteng, James Akazili, Paul Welaga, Philip Ayizem Dalinjong, Kwaku Poku Asante, Doris Sarpong, Samuelina Arthur, Martin Bangha, Jane Goudge, Osman Sankoh

Open Access Research

Inequity in inpatient services utilization: a longitudinal comparative analysis of middle-aged and elderly patients with the chronic non-communicable diseases in China

Xian-zhi Fu, Lian-ke Wang, Chang-qing Sun, Dong-dong Wang, Jun-jian He, Qi-xin Tang, Qian-yu Zhou

Open Access Research

Qualitative study of psychosocial factors impacting on Aboriginal women’s management of chronic disease

A. Eades, M. L. Hackett, H. Liu, A. Brown, J. Coffin, A. Cass

A method for measuring spatial effects on socioeconomic inequalities using the concentration index

Sung Wook Kim, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Neha Batura, Stavros Petrou

Open Access Research

“To mean something to someone”: sport-for-development as a lever for social inclusion

Karen Van der Veken, Emelien Lauwerier, Sara Willems

Open Access Care Research

Too poor or too far? Partitioning the variability of hospital-based childbirth by poverty and travel time in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania

Kerry L. M. Wong, Oliver J. Brady, Oona M. R. Campbell, Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Lenka Benova

Open Access Research

Intersectionality, special populations, needs and suggestions: the Flint Women’s study

Maji Hailemariam, Julia W. Felton, Kent Key, DeOnica Greer, Bernadel L. Jefferson, Janice Muhammad, Raven Miller, Fallon Richie, DeWaun Robinson, Sharon Saddler, Bryan Spencer, Monicia Summers, Jonne Mc Coy White, Jennifer E. Johnson

Open Access Research

Examining purchasing reforms towards universal health coverage by the National Hospital Insurance Fund in Kenya

Rahab Mbau, Evelyn Kabia, Ayako Honda, Kara Hanson, Edwine Barasa

Open Access Care Research

Differences in medical specialist utilization among older people in need of long-term care – results from German health claims data

Maike Schulz, Jonas Czwikla, Chrysanthi Tsiasioti, Antje Schwinger, Daniel Gand, Guido Schmiemann, Annika Schmidt, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Stephan Kloep, Franziska Heinze, Heinz Rothgang

Open Access Research

Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County

Dennis Waithaka, Nancy Kagwanja, Jacinta Nzinga, Benjamin Tsofa, Hassan Leli, Christine Mataza, Amek Nyaguara, Philip Bejon, Lucy Gilson, Edwine Barasa, Sassy Molyneux

Open Access Research

Vulnerability in health and social capital: a qualitative analysis by levels of marginalization in Mexico

Oscar A. Martínez-Martínez, Anidelys Rodríguez-Brito

Open Access Review

Socially-assigned race and health: a scoping review with global implications for population health equity

Kellee White, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Nedelina Tchangalova, Shuo J. Huang, Jason L. Cummings

Care Systematic review

Patient safety in marginalised groups: a narrative scoping review

Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Maria Panagioti, Gavin Daker-White, Sally Giles, Lisa Riste, Sue Kirk, Bie Nio Ong, Aaron Poppleton, Stephen Campbell, Caroline Sanders

Open Access Research

Hospitalisation for cirrhosis in Australia: disparities in presentation and outcomes for Indigenous Australians

Patricia C. Valery, Paul J. Clark, Gregory Pratt, Christina M. Bernardes, Gunter Hartel, Maree Toombs, Katharine M. Irvine, Elizabeth E. Powell

Open Access Research

The disequilibrium in the distribution of the primary health workforce among eight economic regions and between rural and urban areas in China

Yueyue Wang, Yuyang Li, Shangren Qin, Yuanfeng Kong, Xiyang Yu, Keqiang Guo, Jiayu Meng

Open Access Care Research

How the choice of ethnic indicator influences ethnicity-based inequities in maternal health care in four Latin American countries: who is indigenous?

Nancy Armenta-Paulino, Adela Castelló, María Sandín Vázquez, Francisco Bolúmar

Care Research

Examining user fee reductions in public primary healthcare facilities in Kenya, 1997–2012: effects on the use and content of antenatal care

Mardieh L. Dennis, Lenka Benova, Catherine Goodman, Edwine Barasa, Timothy Abuya, Oona M. R. Campbell

Open Access Research

Health, income and poverty: evidence from China’s rural household survey

Yang Zhou, Yuanzhi Guo, Yansui Liu

Open Access Research

A qualitative needs assessment of human trafficking in Ethiopia: recommendations for a comprehensive, coordinated response

Kristen R. Choi, Dana C. Beck, Munmun A. Khan, Sue Anne Bell, Lemlem Beza, Michelle L. Munro-Kramer

Contraception Editorial

Reproductive health and the politics of abortion

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

Care Research

Mobile health clinics in the United States

Nelson C. Malone, Mollie M. Williams, Mary C. Smith Fawzi, Jennifer Bennet, Caterina Hill, Jeffrey N. Katz, Nancy E. Oriol

Open Access SARS-CoV-2 Commentary

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises

Danielle N. Poole, Daniel J. Escudero, Lawrence O. Gostin, David Leblang, Elizabeth A. Talbot

Wealth-related inequalities of women’s knowledge of cervical cancer screening and service utilisation in 18 resource-constrained countries: evidence from a pooled decomposition analysis

Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Syed Afroz Keramat, Gail M Ormsby, Marufa Sultana, Lal B. Rawal, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow, Andre M. N. Renzaho

Open Access Colorectal Cancer Research

Cancer screening among racial/ethnic groups in health centers

De-Chih Lee, Hailun Liang, Nanqian Chen, Leiyu Shi, Ying Liu

Open Access Research

Indigenous engagement in health: lessons from Brazil, Chile, Australia and New Zealand

Angeline Ferdinand, Michelle Lambert, Leny Trad, Leo Pedrana, Yin Paradies, Margaret Kelaher

Open Access Research

Incarcerated Aboriginal women’s experiences of accessing healthcare and the limitations of the ‘equal treatment’ principle

S. Kendall, S. Lighton, J. Sherwood, E. Baldry, E. A. Sullivan

Research

Can the reform of integrating health insurance reduce inequity in catastrophic health expenditure? Evidence from China

Jiahui Wang, Hong Zhu, Huan Liu, Ke Wu, Xin Zhang, Miaomiao Zhao, Hang Yin, Xinye Qi, Yanhua Hao, Ye Li, Libo Liang, Mingli Jiao, Jiao Xu, Baohua Liu, Qunhong Wu, Linghan Shan

Open Access Care Research

Comprehensive primary health care and non-communicable diseases management: a case study of El Salvador

Marta Jimenez Carrillo, Montserrat León García, Nicole Vidal, Keven Bermúdez, Pol De Vos

Community engagement interventions for communicable disease control in low- and lower- middle-income countries: evidence from a review of systematic reviews

K. Questa, M. Das, R. King, M. Everitt, C. Rassi, C. Cartwright, T. Ferdous, D. Barua, N. Putnis, A. C. Snell, R. Huque, J. Newell, H. Elsey

Open Access Public Health Research

The politics and practice of initiating a public health postgraduate programme in three universities in sub-Saharan Africa: the challenges of alignment and coherence

Woldekidan Kifle Amde, David Sanders, Mohsin Sidat, Manasse Nzayirambaho, Damen Haile-Mariam, Uta Lehmann

Open Access Research

Ethnic inequalities in child stunting and feeding practices: results from surveys in thirteen countries from Latin America

Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez, Marilia Arndt Mesenburg, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Cesar G. Victora

Open Access Care Research

Barriers to access and organization of primary health care services for rural riverside populations in the Amazon

Luiza Garnelo, Rosana Cristina Pereira Parente, Maria Laura Rezende Puchiarelli, Priscilla Cabral Correia, Matheus Vasconcelos Torres, Fernando José Herkrath

Open Access Care Research

Magnitude and determinants of multimorbidity and health care utilization among patients attending public versus private primary care: a cross-sectional study from Odisha, India

Sanghamitra Pati, Subhashisa Swain, J. André Knottnerus, Job F. M. Metsemakers, Marjan van den Akker

Open Access Care Research

Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients

Julia Brandenberger, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Florian Vogt, Thorkild Tylleskär, Nicole Ritz

The potential of mobile health clinics in chronic disease prevention and health promotion in universal healthcare systems. An on-field experiment

Chiara Bertoncello, Silvia Cocchio, Marco Fonzo, Silvia Eugenia Bennici, Francesca Russo, Giovanni Putoto

Open Access Coronavirus Commentary

Ensuring adequate health financing to prevent and control the COVID-19 in Iran

Masoud Behzadifar, Mahboubeh Khaton Ghanbari, Ahad Bakhtiari, Meysam Behzadifar, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

The challenges facing indigenous communities in Latin America as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic

Sergio Meneses-Navarro, María Graciela Freyermuth-Enciso, Blanca Estela Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Roberto Campos-Navarro, David Mariano Meléndez-Navarro, Liliana Gómez-Flores-Ramos

Vaccination Research

Complete vaccination service utilization inequalities among children aged 12–23 months in Ethiopia: a multivariate decomposition analyses

Ayal Debie, Ayenew Molla Lakew, Koku Sisay Tamirat, Getasew Amare, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

Prioritizing vulnerable populations and women on the frontlines: COVID-19 in humanitarian contexts

Vandana Sharma, Jennifer Scott, Jocelyn Kelly, Michael J. VanRooyen

Open Access Research

Financial risk of seeking maternal and neonatal healthcare in southern Ethiopia: a cohort study of rural households

Moges Tadesse Borde, Eskindir Loha, Kjell Arne Johansson, Bernt Lindtjørn

Open Access COVID-19 Letter to the Editor

Costing of actions to safeguard vulnerable Mexican households with young children from the consequences of COVID-19 social distancing measures

Mireya Vilar-Compte, Víctor Pérez, Graciela Teruel, Aranzazu Alonso, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations

Ruth Waitzberg, Nadav Davidovitch, Gideon Leibner, Nadav Penn, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

COVID-19: a plea to protect the older population

Daniele Carrieri, Fedro Alessandro Peccatori, Giovanni Boniolo

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

Mobile health clinic model in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and opportunities for policy changes and innovation

Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, Rigoberto Delgado, Aditi Gupta, Jennifer Bennet, Nancy E. Oriol, Sachin H. Jain

Open Access Research

How community sport programs may improve the health of vulnerable population groups: a program theory

Karen Van der Veken, Emelien Lauwerier, Sara J. Willems

Open Access Care Research

Role of social and other determinants of health in the effect of a multicomponent integrated care strategy on type 2 diabetes mellitus

Rubén Silva-Tinoco, Teresa Cuatecontzi-Xochitiotzi, Viridiana De la Torre-Saldaña, Enrique León-García, Javier Serna-Alvarado, Eileen Guzmán-Olvera, Dolores Cabrera, Juan G. Gay, Diddier Prada

Suicide Review

Why social justice matters: a context for suicide prevention efforts

Shirley Hochhauser, Satya Rao, Elizabeth England-Kennedy, Sharmistha Roy

Open Access Research

Living or deceased-donor kidney transplant: the role of psycho-socioeconomic factors and outcomes associated with each type of transplant

Abbas Basiri, Maryam Taheri, Alireza Khoshdel, Shabnam Golshan, Hamed Mohseni-rad, Nasrin Borumandnia, Nasser Simforoosh, Mohsen Nafar, Majid Aliasgari, Mohammad Hossein Nourbala, Gholamreza Pourmand, Soudabeh Farhangi, Nastaran Khalili

Open Access Ebola Virus Commentary

COVID-19 and informal settlements: an urgent call to rethink urban governance

S. Van Belle, C. Affun-Adegbulu, W. Soors, Prashanth N. Srinivas, G. Hegel, W. Van Damme, D. Saluja, I. Abejirinde, E. Wouters, C. Masquillier, H. Tabana, F. Chenge, K. Polman, B. Marchal

Open Access Research

Assessing health outcomes in the aftermath of the great recession: a comparison of Spain and the Netherlands

Kristina Thompson, Annemarie Wagemakers, Johan van Ophem

Open Access Research

Research priorities in healthcare of persons experiencing homelessness: outcomes of a national multi-disciplinary stakeholder discussion in the United Kingdom

Parbir Jagpal, Karen Saunders, Gunveer Plahe, Sean Russell, Nigel Barnes, Richard Lowrie, Vibhu Paudyal

Open Access Nutrition Commentary

An urgent call to address the nutritional status of women and children in Nepal during COVID-19 crises

Bindu Panthi, Pratik Khanal, Minakshi Dahal, Sajana Maharjan, Sushil Nepal

Open Access Care Research

Health care trajectories and barriers to treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease without health insurance in Mexico: a mixed methods approach

Marcela Agudelo-Botero, María Cecilia González-Robledo, Hortensia Reyes-Morales, Liliana Giraldo-Rodríguez, Mario Rojas-Russell, Dolores Mino-León, Dayan Irene Ocampo-Morales, Rafael Valdez-Ortiz

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

The health equity in all policies (HEiAP) approach before and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic in the Italian context

R. Bucciardini, B. Contoli, P. De Castro, C. Donfrancesco, L. Falzano, R. Ferrelli, A. M. Giammarioli, B. Mattioli, E. Medda, V. Minardi, G. Minelli, L. Palmieri, R. Pasetto, E. Pizzi, S. Rossi, A. Venerosi

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Coronavirus disease 19 in minority populations of Newark, New Jersey

Alexis K. Okoh, Christoph Sossou, Neha S. Dangayach, Sherin Meledathu, Oluwakemi Phillips, Corinne Raczek, Michael Patti, Nathan Kang, Sameer A. Hirji, Charles Cathcart, Christian Engell, Marc Cohen, Sandhya Nagarakanti, Eliahu Bishburg, Harpreet S. Grewal

Research

Intersecting inequalities, gender and adolescent health in Ethiopia

Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Sarah Baird, Workneh Yadete, Joan Hamory Hicks

Open Access Research

Measuring socioeconomic and health financing inequality in maternal mortality in Colombia: a mixed methods approach

Juan Carlos Rivillas, Raúl Devia-Rodriguez, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire

Open Access Research

Measuring spatial accessibility and within-province disparities in accessibility to county hospitals in Shaanxi Province of Western China based on web mapping navigation data

Chi Shen, Zhongliang Zhou, Sha Lai, Li Lu, Wanyue Dong, Min Su, Jian Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Qiwei Deng, Yaru Chen, Xi Chen

Open Access Care Research

Influence of China’s 2009 healthcare reform on the utilisation of continuum of care for maternal health services: evidence from two cross-sectional household surveys in Shaanxi Province

Xiaojing Fan, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Zhongliang Zhou, Ching-Hung Lee, Duolao Wang, Haixia Liu, Shaonong Dang, Jianmin Gao

Open Access Research

Towards an indigenous definition of health: an explorative study to understand the indigenous Ecuadorian people’s health and illness concepts

Estefanía Bautista-Valarezo, Víctor Duque, Adriana Elizabeth Verdugo Sánchez, Viviana Dávalos-Batallas, Nele R. M. Michels, Kristin Hendrickx, Veronique Verhoeven

Open Access Research

A distributional regression approach to income-related inequality of health in Australia

Roselinde Kessels, Anne Hoornweg, Thi Kim Thanh Bui, Guido Erreygers

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives

Efrat Shadmi, Yingyao Chen, Inês Dourado, Inbal Faran-Perach, John Furler, Peter Hangoma, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Claudia Obando, Varduhi Petrosyan, Krishna D. Rao, Ana Lorena Ruano, Leiyu Shi, Luis Eugenio de Souza, Sivan Spitzer-Shohat, Elizabeth Sturgiss, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Manuela Villar Uribe, Sara Willems

Care Research

Two-eyed seeing of the integration of oral health in primary health care in Indigenous populations: a scoping review

Richa Shrivastava, Yves Couturier, Felix Girard, Lucie Papineau, Elham Emami

Open Access Climate Change Research

Opportunities for gender transformative approaches in a community-based drowning reduction program in Bangladesh

M. Gupta, A. Rahman, N. C. Dutta, D. Nambiar, R. Ivers, J. Jagnoor

Open Access Research

Health inequity in workers of Latin America and the Caribbean

Michael Silva-Peñaherrera, María Lopez-Ruiz, Pamela Merino-Salazar, Antonio Ramón Gómez-García, Fernando G. Benavides

Open Access Research

When accountability meets power: realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights

Gita Sen, Aditi Iyer, Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Rajat Khosla

Open Access Care Research

Setting health care services tariffs in Iran: half a century quest for a window of opportunity

Leila Doshmangir, Arash Rashidian, Farhad Kouhi, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev

Open Access Research

Multimorbidity and chronic diseases among undocumented migrants: evidence to contradict the myths

Luis Andrés Gimeno-Feliu, Marta Pastor-Sanz, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Esperanza Díaz, Alexandra Prados-Torres

Open Access COVID-19 Letter to the Editor

Race, socioeconomic deprivation, and hospitalization for COVID-19 in English participants of a national biobank

Aniruddh P. Patel, Manish D. Paranjpe, Nina P. Kathiresan, Manuel A. Rivas, Amit V. Khera

Care Research

Quality of care for Black and Latina women living with HIV in the U.S.: a qualitative study

Whitney S. Rice, Faith E. Fletcher, Busola Akingbade, Mary Kan, Samantha Whitfield, Shericia Ross, C. Ann Gakumo, Igho Ofotokun, Deborah J. Konkle-Parker, Mardge H. Cohen, Gina M. Wingood, Brian W. Pence, Adaora A. Adimora, Tonya N. Taylor, Tracey E. Wilson, Sheri D. Weiser, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Bulent Turan, Janet M. Turan

Research

Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All

Connie Musolino, Fran Baum, Toby Freeman, Ronald Labonté, Chiara Bodini, David Sanders

Open Access Sectio Ceasarea Research

Socioeconomic differences in caesarean section – are they explained by medical need? An analysis of patient record data of a large Kenyan hospital

Lisa van der Spek, Sterre Sanglier, Hillary M. Mabeya, Thomas van den Akker, Paul L. J. M. Mertens, Tanja A. J. Houweling

Open Access Care Systematic review

The safety of health care for ethnic minority patients: a systematic review

Ashfaq Chauhan, Merrilyn Walton, Elizabeth Manias, Ramesh Lahiru Walpola, Holly Seale, Monika Latanik, Desiree Leone, Stephen Mears, Reema Harrison

Care Research

Impact of maternal death reviews at a rural hospital in Zambia: a mixed methods study

Jean-Bertin Bukasa Kabuya, Arthur Mataka, Gerald Chongo, Luc Kambale Kamavu, Priscilla N’gandu Chola, Christine Manyando, Vincent De Brouwere, Matthew M. Ippolito

Open Access Cholera Commentary

COVID-19 in Yemen: a crisis within crises

Seyyed Meysam Mousavi, Mina Anjomshoa

Open Access Research

Erosion of universal health coverage and trend in the frequency of physician consultations in Spain

Lourdes Lostao, Elena Ronda, Cruz Pascual, Lucía Cea-Soriano, Almudena Moreno, Enrique Regidor

Open Access Anemia Research

Measuring socioeconomic gaps in nutrition and early child development in Bolivia

Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Martinez, Cecilia Vidal

Open Access Research

A methodology for small area prevalence estimation based on survey data

Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal, Quéren Hapuque de Carvalho, Jill P. Pell, Alastair H. Leyland, Ruth Dundas, Mauricio Lima Barreto, Deborah Carvalho Malta

Open Access COVID-19 Research

A model of disparities: risk factors associated with COVID-19 infection

Yelena Rozenfeld, Jennifer Beam, Haley Maier, Whitney Haggerson, Karen Boudreau, Jamie Carlson, Rhonda Medows

Open Access Research

Communities on the move: community participation in health in rural territories of Buenaventura District in Colombia

Laura Catalina Blandón-Lotero, Marta Cecilia Jaramillo-Mejía

COVID-19 Commentary

Axes of alienation: applying an intersectional lens on the social contract during the pandemic response to protect sexual and reproductive rights and health

Jashodhara Dasgupta, Marta Schaaf, Sana Qais Contractor, Amanda Banda, Marisa Viana, Oksana Kashyntseva, Ana Lorena Ruano

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Disability inclusiveness of government responses to COVID-19 in South America: a framework analysis study

Dikaios Sakellariou, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano, Elena S. Rotarou

Open Access Research

Equality and poverty: views from managers and professionals from public services and household heads in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area, Brazil

Viviane Helena de França, Celina Maria Modena, Ulisses Eugenio Cavalcanti Confalonieri

Open Access Research

Evaluation of the effectiveness of comprehensive drug price reform: a case study from Shihezi city in Western China

Taoyu Lin, Zhaohui Wu, Menming Liu, Xiangwei Wu, Xinping Zhang

Autism Spectrum Disorder Systematic review

Psychosocial resources developed and trialled for Indigenous people with autism spectrum disorder and their caregivers: a systematic review and catalogue

Ian M. Shochet, Jayne A. Orr, Rachel L. Kelly, Astrid M. Wurfl, Beth R. Saggers, Suzanne B. Carrington

Open Access Research

Vulnerability and agency across treatment-seeking journeys for acutely ill children: how family members navigate complex healthcare before, during and after hospitalisation in a rural Kenyan setting

Scholastica M. Zakayo, Rita W. Njeru, Gladys Sanga, Mary N. Kimani, Anderson Charo, Kui Muraya, Haribondhu Sarma, Md. Fakhar Uddin, James A. Berkley, Judd L. Walson, Maureen Kelley, Vicki Marsh, Sassy Molyneux

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

COVID-19 response strategies: considering inequalities between and within countries

Lincoln Leehang Lau, Natalee Hung, Kendall Wilson

Open Access Angiography Research

Education-related variation in coronary procedure rates and the contribution of private health care in Australia: a prospective cohort study

Veronica Hughes, Ellie Paige, Jennifer Welsh, Grace Joshy, Emily Banks, Rosemary J. Korda

Open Access Coronavirus Commentary

The challenges of COVID-19 in the Brazilian Amazonian communities and the importance of seroepidemiological surveillance studies

Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto, Maria Karoliny da Silva Torres, Mariana Cayres Vallinoto, Izaura M. V. Cayres Vallinoto

Open Access Research

Influence of community scorecards on maternal and newborn health service delivery and utilization

Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho, Noel Namuhani, Rebecca Racheal Apolot, Christine Aanyu, Aloysuis Mutebi, Moses Tetui, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka, Faith Adong Ayen, Dennis Mwesige, Ahmed Bumbha, Ligia Paina, David H. Peters

Care Research

Understanding long-term HIV survivorship among African American/Black and Latinx persons living with HIV in the United States: a qualitative exploration through the lens of symbolic violence

Robert Freeman, Marya Gwadz, Leo Wilton, Linda M. Collins, Caroline Dorsen, Robert L. Hawkins, Elizabeth Silverman, Belkis Y. Martinez, Noelle R. Leonard, Amanda Applegate, Sabrina Cluesman

Open Access Research

Characterizing street-connected children and youths’ social and health inequities in Kenya: a qualitative study

L. Embleton, P. Shah, A. Gayapersad, R. Kiptui, D. Ayuku, P. Braitstein

Open Access Research

How to adapt sexual and reproductive health services to the needs and circumstances of trans people— a qualitative study in Colombia

Mariana Calderón-Jaramillo, Ángel Mendoza, Natalia Acevedo, Luz Janeth Forero-Martínez, Sandra Marcela Sánchez, Juan Carlos Rivillas-García

Open Access Research

Do community scorecards improve utilisation of health services in community clinics: experience from a rural area of Bangladesh

S. M. A. Hanifi, Aazia Hossain, Asiful Haidar Chowdhury, Shahidul Hoque, Mohammad Abdus Selim, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Abbas Bhuiya

Open Access Research

Inequitable access to an outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy service: linked cross-sectional study

Colin Sumpter, Clark D. Russell, Claire Mackintosh

Open Access Fertility Research

Trends in adolescent first births in sub-Saharan Africa: a tale of increasing inequity?

Sarah Neal, Andrew Amos Channon, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Nyovani Madise

Open Access Research

Feasibility, acceptability and initial outcome of implementing community scorecard to monitor community level public health facilities: experience from rural Bangladesh

Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Sabrina Rasheed, Asiful Haidar Chowdhury, Aazia Hossain, Mohammad Abdus Selim, Shahidul Hoque, Abbas Bhuiya

Open Access Hepatitis B Commentary

Tenofovir for prevention of mother to child transmission of hepatitis B in migrant women in a resource-limited setting on the Thailand-Myanmar border: a commentary on challenges of implementation

M. Bierhoff, M. J. Rijken, W. Yotyingaphiram, M. Pimanpanarak, M. van Vugt, C. Angkurawaranon, F. Nosten, S. Ehrhardt, C. L. Thio, R. McGready

Open Access Research

Socio-economic inequalities in suffering at the end of life among advanced cancer patients: results from the APPROACH study in five Asian countries

Chetna Malhotra, Anirudh Krishnan, Jing Rong Yong, Irene Teo, Semra Ozdemir, Xiao Hong Ning, Thushari Hapuarachchi, Gayatri Palat, Sushma Bhatnagar, Anjum Khan Joad, Pham Nguyen Tuong, Wynn Mon Ssu, Eric Finkelstein

Open Access Cervical Cancer Review

Factors associated with cervical cancer screening participation among migrant women in Europe: a scoping review

Patrícia Marques, Mariana Nunes, Maria da Luz Antunes, Bruno Heleno, Sónia Dias

Open Access Research

Targeting vulnerable groups of health poverty alleviation in rural China— what is the role of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme for the middle age and elderly population?

Nianshi Wang, Jing Xu, Meiyan Ma, Linghan Shan, Mingli Jiao, Qi Xia, Wanxin Tian, Xiyu Zhang, Limin Liu, Yanhua Hao, Lijun Gao, Qunhong Wu, Ye Li

Open Access Public Health Research

Values are not enough: qualitative study identifying critical elements for prioritization of health equity in health systems

Thea van Roode, Bernadette M. Pauly, Lenora Marcellus, Heather Wilson Strosher, Sana Shahram, Phuc Dang, Alex Kent, Marjorie MacDonald

Open Access Research

Financial risk protection of Thailand’s universal health coverage: results from series of national household surveys between 1996 and 2015

Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Vuthiphan Vongmongkol, Shaheda Viriyathorn, Supon Limwattananon

Open Access Research

Tracking health sector priority setting processes and outcomes for human resources for health, five-years after political devolution: a county-level case study in Kenya

Joshua Munywoki, Nancy Kagwanja, Jane Chuma, Jacinta Nzinga, Edwine Barasa, Benjamin Tsofa

Open Access Review

Gender disparities in clinical practice: are there any solutions? Scoping review of interventions to overcome or reduce gender bias in clinical practice

Lorena Alcalde-Rubio, Ildefonso Hernández-Aguado, Lucy Anne Parker, Eduardo Bueno-Vergara, Elisa Chilet-Rosell

Open Access Research

Does healthcare inequity reflect variations in peoples’ abilities to access healthcare? Results from a multi-jurisdictional interventional study in two high-income countries

Jeannie Haggerty, Jean-Frederic Levesque, Mark Harris, Catherine Scott, Simone Dahrouge, Virginia Lewis, Emilie Dionne, Nigel Stocks, Grant Russell

Open Access Research

Inequality in healthcare use among older people in Colombia

Jorge Garcia-Ramirez, Zlatko Nikoloski, Elias Mossialos

Care Research

Unmet mental health needs in the general population: perspectives of Belgian health and social care professionals

Eva Rens, Geert Dom, Roy Remmen, Joris Michielsen, Kris Van den Broeck

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

Using implementation science to mitigate worsening health inequities in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tyler A. Jacobson, Lauren E. Smith, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Mark D. Huffman

Open Access Care Research

Landscapes of care and despair for rural youth – a qualitative study in the northern Swedish ‘periphery’

Frida Jonsson, Isabel Goicolea, Monica Christianson, Dean B. Carson, Maria Wiklund

Open Access Research

Projected impact of diabetes on the Costa Rican healthcare system

Carolina Santamaría-Ulloa, Melina Montero-López

Open Access Research

Typology of organizational innovation components: building blocks to improve access to primary healthcare for vulnerable populations

Mélanie Ann Smithman, Sarah Descôteaux, Émilie Dionne, Lauralie Richard, Mylaine Breton, Vladimir Khanassov, Jeannie L. Haggerty

Open Access Care Research

Sex differences in the management of persons with dementia following a subnational primary care policy intervention

Nadia Sourial, Geneviève Arsenault-Lapierre, Eva Margo-Dermer, Mary Henein, Isabelle Vedel

Anxiety Research

Contribution of psychosocial factors to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among older Australian men: a population-based cohort study

Saman Khalatbari-Soltani, Fiona Stanaway, Erin Cvejic, Fiona M. Blyth, Vasi Naganathan, David J. Handelsman, David G. Le Couteur, Markus J. Seibel, Louise M. Waite, Robert G. Cumming

Socioeconomic inequalities in women’s access to health care: has Ecuadorian health reform been successful?

Edy Quizhpe, Miguel San Sebastian, Enrique Teran, Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström

Open Access Care Research

Responsiveness of health care services towards the elderly in Tanzania: does health insurance make a difference? A cross-sectional study

Paul Joseph Amani, Malale Tungu, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Angwara Denis Kiwara, Gasto Frumence, Miguel San Sebastián

Open Access Tuberculosis Review

Health of refugees and migrants from former Soviet Union countries in the Russian Federation: a narrative review

Nataliia Bakunina, Artyom Gil, Vitaly Polushkin, Boris Sergeev, Margarita Flores, Igor Toskin, Viktoriya Madyanova, Ruslan Khalfin

Open Access Systematic review

Representation of gender in migrant health studies – a systematic review of the social epidemiological literature

Lisa Wandschneider, Stephanie Batram-Zantvoort, Oliver Razum, Céline Miani

Open Access Coronavirus Review

Ethics, pandemic and environment; looking at the future of low middle income countries

Faouzia Tanveer, Ali Talha Khalil, Muhammad Ali, Zabta Khan Shinwari

Adaptation and validation of social accountability measures in the context of contraceptive services in Ghana and Tanzania

Victoria Boydell, Petrus S. Steyn, Joanna Paula Cordero, Ndema Habib, My Huong Nguyen, Dela Nai, Donat Shamba

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

Addressing the caste system in U.S. healthcare in the era of COVID-19

Karthik Sivashanker, Cheri Couillard, Jennifer Goldsmith, Normella Walker, Sunil Eappen

Vaccination Research

A qualitative analysis of vaccine decision makers’ conceptualization and fostering of ‘community engagement’ in India

Tapati Dutta, Beth E. Meyerson, Jon Agley, Priscilla A. Barnes, Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin, Jill Nicholson-Crotty

Open Access Ebola Virus Letter to the Editor

Realigning global health governance: WHO at a crossroads

Irene Torres, Osvaldo Artaza, Barbara Profeta, Cristina Alonso, JaHyun Kang

Care Research

“Got to build that trust”: the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal health staff on maternal oral health

Ariana C. Kong, Mariana S. Sousa, Lucie Ramjan, Michelle Dickson, Joanne Goulding, Kylie Gwynne, Folau Talbot, Nathan Jones, Ravi Srinivas, Ajesh George

Open Access Research

Changes in self-rated health and quality of life among Syrian refugees migrating to Norway: a prospective longitudinal study

Jasmin Haj-Younes, Elisabeth Marie Strømme, Jannicke Igland, Bernadette Kumar, Eirik Abildsnes, Wegdan Hasha, Esperanza Diaz

Open Access COVID-19 Commentary

One country, two crises: what Covid-19 reveals about health inequalities among BAME communities in the United Kingdom and the sustainability of its health system?

Akaninyene Otu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Sanni Yaya

Open Access Research

“Crazy person is crazy person. It doesn’t differentiate”: an exploration into Somali views of mental health and access to healthcare in an established UK Somali community

Catherine Linney, Siyan Ye, Sabi Redwood, Abdi Mohamed, Abdullahi Farah, Lucy Biddle, Esther Crawley

Research

Maternal health challenges experienced by adolescents; could community score cards address them? A case study of Kibuku District– Uganda

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

Open Access Care Systematic review

An overview of reviews on strategies to reduce health inequalities

Nathaly Garzón-Orjuela, Daniel Felipe Samacá-Samacá, Silvia Catalina Luque Angulo, Carmen Verônica Mendes Abdala, Ludovic Reveiz, Javier Eslava-Schmalbach

Open Access Research

Theory driven analysis of social class and health outcomes using UK nationally representative longitudinal data

Welcome Wami, Gerry McCartney, Mel Bartley, Duncan Buchanan, Ruth Dundas, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Rich Mitchell, David Walsh

Care Systematic review

Mobile primary health care clinics for Indigenous populations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States: a systematic scoping review

Hannah Beks, Geraldine Ewing, James A. Charles, Fiona Mitchell, Yin Paradies, Robyn A. Clark, Vincent L. Versace

Research

Why do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America

Toby Freeman, Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Clare Bambra, Elsa Regina Justo Giugliani, Jennie Popay, David Sanders, James Macinko, Connie Musolino, Fran Baum

Open Access Research

Building a sanitary vulnerability map from open source data in Argentina (2010-2018)

Germán Federico Rosati, Tomás Alberto Olego, H. Antonio Vazquez Brust

Open Access Research

A cross sectional study of unmet need for health services amongst urban refugees and asylum seekers in Thailand in comparison with Thai population, 2019

Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Pigunkaew Sinam, Mathudara Phaiyarom, Nareerut Pudpong, Sataporn Julchoo, Watinee Kunpeuk, Panithee Thammawijaya

Intersectionality and health-related stigma: insights from experiences of people living with stigmatized health conditions in Indonesia

Sarju Sing Rai, Ruth M. H. Peters, Elena V. Syurina, Irwanto Irwanto, Denise Naniche, Marjolein B. M. Zweekhorst

Open Access Care Research

Equity and efficiency of health care resource allocation in Jiangsu Province, China

Qian Li, Jianjun Wei, Fengchang Jiang, Guixiang Zhou, Rilei Jiang, Meijuan Chen, Xu Zhang, Wanjin Hu

Open Access Breast Cancer Research

Coverage determinants of breast cancer screening in Flanders: an evaluation of the past decade

L. Ding, S. Jidkova, M. J. W. Greuter, K. Van Herck, M. Goossens, P. Martens, G. H. de Bock, G. Van Hal

Open Access Care Research

Socioeconomic inequalities in the place of death in urban small areas of three Mediterranean cities

Andreu Nolasco, Manuel Fernández-Alcántara, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, María José Cabañero-Martínez, José M. Copete, Adriana Oliva-Arocas, Julio Cabrero-García

Open Access Climate Change Editorial

Strengthening social accountability in ways that build inclusion, institutionalization and scale: reflections on FHS experience

Sara Bennett, Eizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Ligia Paina, David H. Peters

Ease and equity of access to free DR-TB services in Nigeria- a qualitative analysis of policies, structures and processes

Charity Oga-Omenka, Florence Bada, Aderonke Agbaje, Patrick Dakum, Dick Menzies, Christina Zarowsky