Issue 1/2020
Content (224 Articles)
Have inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific child mortality between countries declined across the world?
- Open Access
- Pneumonia
- Research
Seungman Cha, Yan Jin
Ethnicity recording in health and social care data collections in Ireland: where and how is it measured and what is it used for?
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Ailish Hannigan, Nazmy Villarroel, Maria Roura, Joseph LeMaster, Alphonse Basogomba, Colette Bradley, Anne MacFarlane
Social inequalities in the burden of care: a dyadic analysis in the caregiving partners of persons with a physical disability
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Hannah Tough, Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Johannes Siegrist, Christine Fekete
The state of enrollment on the National Health Insurance Scheme in rural Ghana after eight years of implementation
- Open Access
- Research
Anthony Kwarteng, James Akazili, Paul Welaga, Philip Ayizem Dalinjong, Kwaku Poku Asante, Doris Sarpong, Samuelina Arthur, Martin Bangha, Jane Goudge, Osman Sankoh
Homeownership status and risk of food insecurity: examining the role of housing debt, housing expenditure and housing asset using a cross-sectional population-based survey of Canadian households
- Open Access
- Research
Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain, Valerie Tarasuk
Inequity in inpatient services utilization: a longitudinal comparative analysis of middle-aged and elderly patients with the chronic non-communicable diseases in China
- Open Access
- Research
Xian-zhi Fu, Lian-ke Wang, Chang-qing Sun, Dong-dong Wang, Jun-jian He, Qi-xin Tang, Qian-yu Zhou
Delay in decision and determinants for safe abortion among women at health facilities in south West Ethiopia: facility based cross sectional study
- Open Access
- Research
Biru Abdissa Mizana, Tsige Woyecha, Samuel Abdu
Qualitative study of psychosocial factors impacting on Aboriginal women’s management of chronic disease
- Open Access
- Domestic Violence
- Research
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
- Open Access
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- Research
Sung Wook Kim, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Neha Batura, Stavros Petrou
The impact of vaccination on gender equity: conceptual framework and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine case study
- Open Access
- Fertility
- Research
Allison Portnoy, Samantha Clark, Sachiko Ozawa, Mark Jit
“To mean something to someone”: sport-for-development as a lever for social inclusion
- Open Access
- Research
Karen Van der Veken, Emelien Lauwerier, Sara Willems
All-cause mortality rate in China: do residents in economically developed regions have better health?
- Open Access
- Research
Xuexin Yu, Wei Zhang
Perceived poverty and health, and their roles in the poverty-health vicious cycle: a qualitative study of major stakeholders in the healthcare setting in Hong Kong
- Open Access
- Research
Gary Ka-Ki Chung, Dong Dong, Samuel Yeung-Shan Wong, Hung Wong, Roger Yat-Nork Chung
Sustainable under nutrition reduction program and dietary diversity among children’s aged 6–23 months, Northwest Ethiopia: Comparative cross-sectional study
- Open Access
- Nutrition
- Research
Tigist Worku, Kedir Abdela Gonete, Esmael Ali Muhammad, Asmamaw Atnafu
Too poor or too far? Partitioning the variability of hospital-based childbirth by poverty and travel time in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Kerry L. M. Wong, Oliver J. Brady, Oona M. R. Campbell, Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Lenka Benova
The inter-relationship of diversity principles for the enhanced participation of older people in their care: a qualitative study
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Rajna Ogrin, Claudia Meyer, Arti Appannah, Sally McMillan, Colette Browning
Implementing a sustainable health insurance system in Cambodia: a study protocol for developing and validating an efficient household income-level assessment model for equitable premium collection
- Open Access
- Climate Change
- Study protocol
Haruyo Nakamura, Floriano Amimo, Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Tomoya Yoshida, Makoto Tobe, Shuhei Nomura
Intersectionality, special populations, needs and suggestions: the Flint Women’s study
- Open Access
- Research
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
Examining purchasing reforms towards universal health coverage by the National Hospital Insurance Fund in Kenya
- Open Access
- Research
Rahab Mbau, Evelyn Kabia, Ayako Honda, Kara Hanson, Edwine Barasa
Correction to: Households forgoing healthcare as a measure of financial risk protection: an application to Liberia
- Open Access
- Correction
Jacopo Gabani, Lorna Guinness
Improving health equity among the African ethnic minority through health system strengthening: a narrative review of the New Zealand healthcare system
- Open Access
- Migration Medicine
- Review
Blessing Kanengoni, Sari Andajani-Sutjahjo, Eleanor Holroyd
Differences in medical specialist utilization among older people in need of long-term care – results from German health claims data
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Maike Schulz, Jonas Czwikla, Chrysanthi Tsiasioti, Antje Schwinger, Daniel Gand, Guido Schmiemann, Annika Schmidt, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Stephan Kloep, Franziska Heinze, Heinz Rothgang
Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County
- Open Access
- Research
Dennis Waithaka, Nancy Kagwanja, Jacinta Nzinga, Benjamin Tsofa, Hassan Leli, Christine Mataza, Amek Nyaguara, Philip Bejon, Lucy Gilson, Edwine Barasa, Sassy Molyneux
Vulnerability in health and social capital: a qualitative analysis by levels of marginalization in Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
Oscar A. Martínez-Martínez, Anidelys Rodríguez-Brito
Socially-assigned race and health: a scoping review with global implications for population health equity
- Open Access
- Review
Kellee White, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Nedelina Tchangalova, Shuo J. Huang, Jason L. Cummings
Patient safety in marginalised groups: a narrative scoping review
- Open Access
- Care
- Systematic review
Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Maria Panagioti, Gavin Daker-White, Sally Giles, Lisa Riste, Sue Kirk, Bie Nio Ong, Aaron Poppleton, Stephen Campbell, Caroline Sanders
Hospitalisation for cirrhosis in Australia: disparities in presentation and outcomes for Indigenous Australians
- Open Access
- Research
Patricia C. Valery, Paul J. Clark, Gregory Pratt, Christina M. Bernardes, Gunter Hartel, Maree Toombs, Katharine M. Irvine, Elizabeth E. Powell
The disequilibrium in the distribution of the primary health workforce among eight economic regions and between rural and urban areas in China
- Open Access
- Research
Yueyue Wang, Yuyang Li, Shangren Qin, Yuanfeng Kong, Xiyang Yu, Keqiang Guo, Jiayu Meng
“Who will stand up for us?” the social determinants of health of women tea plantation workers in India
- Open Access
- Research
Preety R. Rajbangshi, Devaki Nambiar
Local health governance in Tajikistan: accountability and power relations at the district level
- Open Access
- Research
Eelco Jacobs, Claudia Baez Camargo
How the choice of ethnic indicator influences ethnicity-based inequities in maternal health care in four Latin American countries: who is indigenous?
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Nancy Armenta-Paulino, Adela Castelló, María Sandín Vázquez, Francisco Bolúmar
Prevalence and associated factors of self-treatment behaviour among different elder subgroups in rural China: a cross-sectional study
- Open Access
- Research
Wanchun Xu, Zhong Li, Zijing Pan, Ruibo He, Liang Zhang
The roles of health maintenance organizations in the implementation of a social health insurance scheme in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria: a mixed-method investigation
- Open Access
- Research
Eric Obikeze, Obinna Onwujekwe
“At this age, a Moroccan woman’s life’s work is over”-older Moroccan-Dutch migrant women’s perceptions of health and lifestyle, with a focus on Ramadan experiences: qualitative research integrating education and consultation
- Open Access
- Research
Karlijn Koudstaal, Petra Verdonk, Edien Bartels
Examining user fee reductions in public primary healthcare facilities in Kenya, 1997–2012: effects on the use and content of antenatal care
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Mardieh L. Dennis, Lenka Benova, Catherine Goodman, Edwine Barasa, Timothy Abuya, Oona M. R. Campbell
Health, income and poverty: evidence from China’s rural household survey
- Open Access
- Research
Yang Zhou, Yuanzhi Guo, Yansui Liu
A qualitative needs assessment of human trafficking in Ethiopia: recommendations for a comprehensive, coordinated response
- Open Access
- Research
Kristen R. Choi, Dana C. Beck, Munmun A. Khan, Sue Anne Bell, Lemlem Beza, Michelle L. Munro-Kramer
Towards universal access to healthcare for older adults: an assessment of the old-age exemption policy under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
- Open Access
- Research
Fidelia A. A. Dake, Nele van der Wielen
Reproductive health and the politics of abortion
- Open Access
- Contraception
- Editorial
Astrid Blystad, Haldis Haukanes, Getnet Tadele, Karen Marie Moland
Mobile health clinics in the United States
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Nelson C. Malone, Mollie M. Williams, Mary C. Smith Fawzi, Jennifer Bennet, Caterina Hill, Jeffrey N. Katz, Nancy E. Oriol
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises
- Open Access
- SARS-CoV-2
- Commentary
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
- Open Access
- Cervical Cancer
- Research
Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Syed Afroz Keramat, Gail M Ormsby, Marufa Sultana, Lal B. Rawal, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow, Andre M. N. Renzaho
Cancer screening among racial/ethnic groups in health centers
- Open Access
- Colorectal Cancer
- Research
De-Chih Lee, Hailun Liang, Nanqian Chen, Leiyu Shi, Ying Liu
Inequalities in reproductive health care use in five West-African countries: A decomposition analysis of the wealth-based gaps
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Oluwasegun Jko Ogundele, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
‘The problem is small enough, the problem is big enough’: a qualitative study of health technology assessment and public policy on drug funding decisions for children
- Open Access
- Research
Avram E. Denburg, Mita Giacomini, Wendy J. Ungar, Julia Abelson
A nationwide cross-sectional study of 15,611 lesbian, gay and bisexual people in China: disclosure of sexual orientation and experiences of negative treatment in health care
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Yiu-tung Suen, Randolph Chun Ho Chan
Indigenous engagement in health: lessons from Brazil, Chile, Australia and New Zealand
- Open Access
- Research
Angeline Ferdinand, Michelle Lambert, Leny Trad, Leo Pedrana, Yin Paradies, Margaret Kelaher
Incarcerated Aboriginal women’s experiences of accessing healthcare and the limitations of the ‘equal treatment’ principle
- Open Access
- Research
S. Kendall, S. Lighton, J. Sherwood, E. Baldry, E. A. Sullivan
Can the reform of integrating health insurance reduce inequity in catastrophic health expenditure? Evidence from China
- Open Access
- Research
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
Comprehensive primary health care and non-communicable diseases management: a case study of El Salvador
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
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
- Open Access
- Sexually Transmitted Infection
- Review
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
The politics and practice of initiating a public health postgraduate programme in three universities in sub-Saharan Africa: the challenges of alignment and coherence
- Open Access
- Public Health
- Research
Woldekidan Kifle Amde, David Sanders, Mohsin Sidat, Manasse Nzayirambaho, Damen Haile-Mariam, Uta Lehmann
Ethnic inequalities in child stunting and feeding practices: results from surveys in thirteen countries from Latin America
- Open Access
- Research
Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez, Marilia Arndt Mesenburg, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Cesar G. Victora
Barriers to access and organization of primary health care services for rural riverside populations in the Amazon
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Luiza Garnelo, Rosana Cristina Pereira Parente, Maria Laura Rezende Puchiarelli, Priscilla Cabral Correia, Matheus Vasconcelos Torres, Fernando José Herkrath
To connect between worlds, to bridge over gaps: learning about the complex role of cultural mediators in perinatal health promotion from a case in Israel
- Open Access
- Research
Hagit Peres, Rachel Sharaby
Utilization profile of emergency department by irregular migrants and hospitalization rates: lessons from a large urban medical center in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Open Access
- Research
S. Shachaf, N. Davidovitch, P. Halpern, Z. Mor
Magnitude and determinants of multimorbidity and health care utilization among patients attending public versus private primary care: a cross-sectional study from Odisha, India
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Sanghamitra Pati, Subhashisa Swain, J. André Knottnerus, Job F. M. Metsemakers, Marjan van den Akker
Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
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
- Open Access
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Research
Chiara Bertoncello, Silvia Cocchio, Marco Fonzo, Silvia Eugenia Bennici, Francesca Russo, Giovanni Putoto
Socioeconomic inequalities in hospitalizations for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature, 1990–2018
- Open Access
- Bronchial Asthma
- Systematic review
Lauren E. Wallar, Eric De Prophetis, Laura C. Rosella
Ensuring adequate health financing to prevent and control the COVID-19 in Iran
- Open Access
- Coronavirus
- Commentary
Masoud Behzadifar, Mahboubeh Khaton Ghanbari, Ahad Bakhtiari, Meysam Behzadifar, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
Exploring perceptions, barriers, and enablers for delivery of primary ear and hearing care by community health workers: a photovoice study in Mukono District, Uganda
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
James O’Donovan, Allan S. Namanda, Rebecca Hamala, Niall Winters, Mahmood F. Bhutta
The challenges facing indigenous communities in Latin America as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
Sergio Meneses-Navarro, María Graciela Freyermuth-Enciso, Blanca Estela Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Roberto Campos-Navarro, David Mariano Meléndez-Navarro, Liliana Gómez-Flores-Ramos
A “one stop liver shop” approach improves the cascade-of-care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with chronic hepatitis B in the Northern Territory of Australia: results of a novel care delivery model
- Open Access
- Hepatitis B
- Research
Thel K. Hla, Sarah M. Bukulatjpi, Paula Binks, George G. Gurruwiwi, Roslyn G. Dhurrkay, Jane Davies
Complete vaccination service utilization inequalities among children aged 12–23 months in Ethiopia: a multivariate decomposition analyses
- Open Access
- Vaccination
- Research
Ayal Debie, Ayenew Molla Lakew, Koku Sisay Tamirat, Getasew Amare, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema
Prioritizing vulnerable populations and women on the frontlines: COVID-19 in humanitarian contexts
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
Vandana Sharma, Jennifer Scott, Jocelyn Kelly, Michael J. VanRooyen
Need and inequality in the use of health care services in a fragmented and decentralized health system: evidence for Argentina
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Alfredo Palacios, Natalia Espinola, Carlos Rojas-Roque
“Pairing assistance”: the effective way to solve the breakdown of health services system caused by COVID-19 pandemic
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Letter to the Editor
Tianxiang Chen, Ying Wang, Lei Hua
Financial risk of seeking maternal and neonatal healthcare in southern Ethiopia: a cohort study of rural households
- Open Access
- Research
Moges Tadesse Borde, Eskindir Loha, Kjell Arne Johansson, Bernt Lindtjørn
Costing of actions to safeguard vulnerable Mexican households with young children from the consequences of COVID-19 social distancing measures
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Letter to the Editor
Mireya Vilar-Compte, Víctor Pérez, Graciela Teruel, Aranzazu Alonso, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla
Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
Ruth Waitzberg, Nadav Davidovitch, Gideon Leibner, Nadav Penn, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg
COVID-19: a plea to protect the older population
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
Daniele Carrieri, Fedro Alessandro Peccatori, Giovanni Boniolo
Mobile health clinic model in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and opportunities for policy changes and innovation
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, Rigoberto Delgado, Aditi Gupta, Jennifer Bennet, Nancy E. Oriol, Sachin H. Jain
How community sport programs may improve the health of vulnerable population groups: a program theory
- Open Access
- Research
Karen Van der Veken, Emelien Lauwerier, Sara J. Willems
Role of social and other determinants of health in the effect of a multicomponent integrated care strategy on type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
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
Why social justice matters: a context for suicide prevention efforts
- Open Access
- Suicide
- Review
Shirley Hochhauser, Satya Rao, Elizabeth England-Kennedy, Sharmistha Roy
Is Nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states?
- Open Access
- Public Health
- Commentary
Salman Jidda Tijjani, Le Ma
Access to skilled attendant at birth and the coverage of the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine across 14 West African countries – an equity analysis
- Open Access
- Whooping Cough
- Research
Jacob Albin Korem Alhassan, Oghenebrume Wariri, Egwu Onuwabuchi, Godwin Mark, Yakubu Kwarshak, Eseoghene Dase
Living or deceased-donor kidney transplant: the role of psycho-socioeconomic factors and outcomes associated with each type of transplant
- Open Access
- Research
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
Salutogenic model of health to identify turning points and coping styles for eating practices in type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Open Access
- Diabetes
- Research
C. M. M. Polhuis, L. Vaandrager, S. S. Soedamah-Muthu, M. A. Koelen
COVID-19 and informal settlements: an urgent call to rethink urban governance
- Open Access
- Ebola Virus
- Commentary
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
Inequalities in access to water and soap matter for the COVID-19 response in sub-Saharan Africa
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Short report
Safia S. Jiwani, Daniel A. Antiporta
Constructing social identity through multiple “us and them”: a grounded theory study of how contextual factors are manifested in the lives of residents of a vulnerable district in Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
Natalia Vincens, Martin Stafström, Efigênia Ferreira, Maria Emmelin
Self-rated health inequalities in the intersection of gender, social class and regional development in Spain: exploring contributions of material and psychosocial factors
- Open Access
- Research
Núria Pedrós Barnils, Eva Eurenius, Per E. Gustafsson
Assessing health outcomes in the aftermath of the great recession: a comparison of Spain and the Netherlands
- Open Access
- Research
Kristina Thompson, Annemarie Wagemakers, Johan van Ophem
Research priorities in healthcare of persons experiencing homelessness: outcomes of a national multi-disciplinary stakeholder discussion in the United Kingdom
- Open Access
- Research
Parbir Jagpal, Karen Saunders, Gunveer Plahe, Sean Russell, Nigel Barnes, Richard Lowrie, Vibhu Paudyal
An urgent call to address the nutritional status of women and children in Nepal during COVID-19 crises
- Open Access
- Nutrition
- Commentary
Bindu Panthi, Pratik Khanal, Minakshi Dahal, Sajana Maharjan, Sushil Nepal
Extent of and trends in inequalities in child stunting in Sierra-Leone from 2005 to 2013: evidence from demographic and health surveys and multiple indicator cluster surveys
- Open Access
- Research
Gebretsadik Shibre, Betregiorigis Zegeye, Jemal Haidar
Is the allocation of medical and health resources effective? Characteristic facts from regional heterogeneity in China
- Open Access
- Research
Ming Yi, Jiachao Peng, Lian Zhang, Yao Zhang
Health care trajectories and barriers to treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease without health insurance in Mexico: a mixed methods approach
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
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
Who is going to pay the price of Covid-19? Reflections about an unequal Brazil
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
Fabiana Ribeiro, Anja Leist
The health equity in all policies (HEiAP) approach before and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic in the Italian context
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
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
Coronavirus disease 19 in minority populations of Newark, New Jersey
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Research
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
Transformative medical education: must community-based traineeship experiences be part of the curriculum? A qualitative study
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Julie Massé, Sophie Dupéré, Élisabeth Martin, Martine C. Lévesque
Maternal height associated with cesarean section. A cross-sectional study using the 2014–2015 national maternal-child health survey in Guatemala
- Open Access
- Sectio Ceasarea
- Research
Evelyn Roldán, Laura M Grajeda, Wilton Pérez
The inequality of health-income effect in employed workers in China: a longitudinal study from China Family Panel Studies
- Open Access
- Psychodynamic Regression
- Research
Mengxue Xie, Zhiyong Huang, Wenbin Zang
Intersecting inequalities, gender and adolescent health in Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Sarah Baird, Workneh Yadete, Joan Hamory Hicks
Measuring socioeconomic and health financing inequality in maternal mortality in Colombia: a mixed methods approach
- Open Access
- Research
Juan Carlos Rivillas, Raúl Devia-Rodriguez, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire
Measuring spatial accessibility and within-province disparities in accessibility to county hospitals in Shaanxi Province of Western China based on web mapping navigation data
- Open Access
- Research
Chi Shen, Zhongliang Zhou, Sha Lai, Li Lu, Wanyue Dong, Min Su, Jian Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Qiwei Deng, Yaru Chen, Xi Chen
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
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Xiaojing Fan, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Zhongliang Zhou, Ching-Hung Lee, Duolao Wang, Haixia Liu, Shaonong Dang, Jianmin Gao
Towards an indigenous definition of health: an explorative study to understand the indigenous Ecuadorian people’s health and illness concepts
- Open Access
- Research
Estefanía Bautista-Valarezo, Víctor Duque, Adriana Elizabeth Verdugo Sánchez, Viviana Dávalos-Batallas, Nele R. M. Michels, Kristin Hendrickx, Veronique Verhoeven
A distributional regression approach to income-related inequality of health in Australia
- Open Access
- Psychodynamic Regression
- Research
Roselinde Kessels, Anne Hoornweg, Thi Kim Thanh Bui, Guido Erreygers
A case study of using the He Pikinga Waiora Implementation Framework: challenges and successes in implementing a twelve-week lifestyle intervention to reduce weight in Māori men at risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity
- Open Access
- Diabetes Prevention
- Research
John Oetzel, Moana Rarere, Ray Wihapi, Carey Manuel, Jade Tapsell
Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Commentary
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
“Everything is provided free, but they are still hesitant to access healthcare services”: why does the indigenous community in Attapadi, Kerala continue to experience poor access to healthcare?
- Open Access
- Research
Mathew Sunil George, Rachel Davey, Itismita Mohanty, Penney Upton
Tackling segmentation to advance universal health coverage: analysis of policy architectures of health care in Chile and Uruguay
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Pamela Bernales-Baksai
Two-eyed seeing of the integration of oral health in primary health care in Indigenous populations: a scoping review
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Richa Shrivastava, Yves Couturier, Felix Girard, Lucie Papineau, Elham Emami
Opportunities for gender transformative approaches in a community-based drowning reduction program in Bangladesh
- Open Access
- Climate Change
- Research
M. Gupta, A. Rahman, N. C. Dutta, D. Nambiar, R. Ivers, J. Jagnoor
Health inequity in workers of Latin America and the Caribbean
- Open Access
- Research
Michael Silva-Peñaherrera, María Lopez-Ruiz, Pamela Merino-Salazar, Antonio Ramón Gómez-García, Fernando G. Benavides
Perceptions and experiences of frontline health managers and providers on accountability in a South African health district
- Open Access
- Research
Fidele Kanyimbu Mukinda, Sara Van Belle, Helen Schneider
When accountability meets power: realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Open Access
- Research
Gita Sen, Aditi Iyer, Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Rajat Khosla
Setting health care services tariffs in Iran: half a century quest for a window of opportunity
- Open Access
- Care
- Research
Leila Doshmangir, Arash Rashidian, Farhad Kouhi, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev
Multimorbidity and chronic diseases among undocumented migrants: evidence to contradict the myths
- Open Access
- Research
Luis Andrés Gimeno-Feliu, Marta Pastor-Sanz, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Esperanza Díaz, Alexandra Prados-Torres
Race, socioeconomic deprivation, and hospitalization for COVID-19 in English participants of a national biobank
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Letter to the Editor
Aniruddh P. Patel, Manish D. Paranjpe, Nina P. Kathiresan, Manuel A. Rivas, Amit V. Khera
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