Issue 1/2009
Content (45 Articles)
Association between maternal use of traditional healer services and child vaccination coverage in Pont-Sonde, Haiti
Adamson S Muula, Martine Y Polycarpe, Jayakaran Job, Seter Siziya, Emmanuel Rudatsikira
How are individual-level social capital and poverty associated with health equity? A study from two Chinese cities
Xiaojie Sun, Clas Rehnberg, Qingyue Meng
Social class, marginality and self-assessed health: a cross-sectional analysis of the health gradient in Mexico
Adolfo Martinez Valle
The applicability of measures of socioeconomic position to different ethnic groups within the UK
Margaret Kelaher, Sheila Paul, Helen Lambert, Waqar Ahmad, George Davey Smith
Gender-specific epidemiology of diabetes: a representative cross-sectional study
Janet F Grant, Neville Hicks, Anne W Taylor, Catherine R Chittleborough, Patrick J Phillips
Socioeconomic inequality in child injury in Bangladesh – implication for developing countries
Sheikh M Giashuddin, Aminur Rahman, Fazlur Rahman, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Salim Mahmud Chowdhury, Michael Linnan, Shumona Shafinaz
Policy characteristics facilitating primary health care in Thailand: A pilot study in transitional country
Krit Pongpirul, Barbara Starfield, Supattra Srivanichakorn, Supasit Pannarunothai
Social determinants of health in Tunisia: the case-analysis of Ariana
Habiba Ben Romdhane, Francis R Grenier
Current cigarette smoking among in-school American youth: results from the 2004 National Youth Tobacco Survey
Emmanuel Rudatsikira, Adamson S Muula, Seter Siziya
Access to health care in relation to socioeconomic status in the Amazonian area of Peru
Charlotte Kristiansson, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Hugo Rodriguez, Alessandro Bartoloni, Marianne Strohmeyer, Göran Tomson, Per Hartvig
Beneficial impacts of a national smokefree environments law on an indigenous population: a multifaceted evaluation
Richard Edwards, Heather Gifford, Andrew Waa, Marewa Glover, George Thomson, Nick Wilson
Who has access to counseling and testing and anti-retroviral therapy in Malawi – an equity analysis
Ireen Makwiza, Lot Nyirenda, Grace Bongololo, Talumba Banda, Rhehab Chimzizi, Sally Theobald
Better science with sex and gender: Facilitating the use of a sex and gender-based analysis in health research
Joy L Johnson, Lorraine Greaves, Robin Repta
Reducing user fees for primary health care in Kenya: Policy on paper or policy in practice?
Jane Chuma, Janet Musimbi, Vincent Okungu, Catherine Goodman, Catherine Molyneux
Social determinants of health and health inequities in Nakuru (Kenya)
Esther Muchukuri, Francis R Grenier
School-related mediators in social inequalities in smoking: a comparative cross-sectional study of 20,399 adolescents
Christina W Schnohr, Svend Kreiner, Mette Rasmussen, Pernille Due, Finn Diderichsen
Promoting LGBT health and wellbeing through inclusive policy development
Nick J Mulé, Lori E Ross, Barry Deeprose, Beth E Jackson, Andrea Daley, Anna Travers, Dick Moore
Reducing disparities in mammography-use in a multicultural population in Israel
Orna Baron-Epel, Nurit Friedman, Omri Lernau
Health financing for the poor produces promising short-term effects on utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure: evidence from Vietnam
Henrik Axelson, Sarah Bales, Pham Duc Minh, Björn Ekman, Ulf-G Gerdtham
Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes: one-year surveillance of births in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai
Neena Shah More, Ujwala Bapat, Sushmita Das, Sarah Barnett, Anthony Costello, Armida Fernandez, David Osrin
Using extended concentration and achievement indices to study socioeconomic inequality in chronic childhood malnutrition: the case of Nigeria
Olalekan A Uthman
Impact of age at marriage and migration on HIV and AIDS epidemics in Japan
Nazrul Islam Mondal, Hiroshi Takaku, Yasushi Ohkusa
Access to health care for Roma children in Central and Eastern Europe: findings from a qualitative study in Bulgaria
Boika Rechel, Clare M Blackburn, Nick J Spencer, Bernd Rechel
Community perceptions and factors influencing utilization of health services in Uganda
Solome K Bakeera, Sarah P Wamala, Sandro Galea, Andrew State, Stefan Peterson, George W Pariyo
Changes in smoking prevalence among first- and second-generation Turkish migrants in Germany – an analysis of the 2005 Microcensus
Anna Reeske, Jacob Spallek, Oliver Razum
Achieving progress in maternal and neonatal health through integrated and comprehensive healthcare services – experiences from a programme in northern Tanzania
Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Øystein Evjen Olsen, Gunnar Kvåle
A theoretical model for analysing gender bias in medicine
Gunilla Risberg, Eva E Johansson, Katarina Hamberg
Three methods to monitor utilization of healthcare services by the poor
Abbas Bhuiya, SMA Hanifi, Farhana Urni, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood
Breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates amongst female Cambodian, Somali, and Vietnamese immigrants in the USA
Ponnila S Samuel, Jane P Pringle, Nathaniel W James IV, Susan J Fielding, Kathleen M Fairfield
Multilevel survival analysis of health inequalities in life expectancy
Min Yang, Sandra Eldridge, Juan Merlo
Variations in relative health inequalities: are they a mathematical artefact?
Terje A Eikemo, Vera Skalická, Mauricio Avendano
Temporal and geographic heterogeneity of the association between socioeconomic position and hospitalisation in Italy: an income based indicator
Patrizia Schifano, Chiara Marinacci, Giulia Cesaroni, Valeria Belleudi, Nicola Caranci, Antonio Russo, Carlo A Perucci
A cost-based equity weight for use in the economic evaluation of primary health care interventions: case study of the Australian Indigenous population
Katherine S Ong, Margaret Kelaher, Ian Anderson, Rob Carter
Ethnic background and differences in health care use: a national cross-sectional study of native Dutch and immigrant elderly in the Netherlands
Semiha Denktaş, Gerrit Koopmans, Erwin Birnie, Marleen Foets, Gouke Bonsel
Financial access to health care in Karuzi, Burundi: a household-survey based performance evaluation
Sophie Lambert-Evans, Frederique Ponsar, Tony Reid, Catherine Bachy, Michel Van Herp, Mit Philips
Smoking prevalence trends in Indigenous Australians, 1994-2004: a typical rather than an exceptional epidemic
David P Thomas
Monitoring socioeconomic inequity in maternal health indicators in Egypt: 1995-2005
Zeinab Khadr
Changes in utilization of health services among poor and rural residents in Uganda: are reforms benefitting the poor?
George W Pariyo, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Olico Okui, Mohammed Hafizur Rahman, Stefan Peterson, David M Bishai, Henry Lucas, David H Peters
The ideal of equal health revisited: definitions and measures of inequity in health should be better integrated with theories of distributive justice
Ole Frithjof Norheim, Yukiko Asada
Mortality effects of average education: a multilevel study of small neighbourhoods in rural and urban areas in Norway
Øystein Kravdal
Evaluating the financial protection of patients with chronic disease by health insurance in rural China
Qiang Sun, Xiaoyun Liu, Qingyue Meng, Shenglan Tang, Baorong Yu, Rachel Tolhurst
Towards equitable access to medicines for the rural poor: analyses of insurance claims reveal rural pharmacy initiative triggers price competition in Kyrgyzstan
Brenda Waning, Jason Maddix, Yorghos Tripodis, Richard Laing, Hubert GM Leufkens, Manjusha Gokhale
The influence of insurance status on waiting times in German acute care hospitals: an empirical analysis of new data
Björn A Kuchinke, Dirk Sauerland, Ansgar Wübker
Are there geographic and socio-economic differences in incidence, burden and prevention of malaria? A study in southeast Nigeria
Obinna Onwujekwe, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Nkem Dike, Chijioke Okoli, Soludo Eze, Ogoamaka Chukwuogo