Issue 1/2014
Content (127 Articles)
Inequalities in out-of-pocket payments for health care services among elderly Germans – results of a population-based cross-sectional study
Jens-Oliver Bock, Herbert Matschinger, Hermann Brenner, Beate Wild, Walter E Haefeli, Renate Quinzler, Kai-Uwe Saum, Dirk Heider, Hans-Helmut König
Community-based health care for indigenous women in Mexico: a qualitative evaluation
Blanca Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Myriam Ruiz, Sergio Meneses, Claudia Amaya, Margarita Márquez, Arianna Taboada, Katherine Careaga
Changes in the magnitude of social inequality in the uptake of cervical cancer screening in Taiwan, a country implementing a population-based organized screening program
Shu-Ti Chiou, Chien-Yuan Wu, Baai-Shyun Hurng, Tsung-Hsueh Lu
Cultural barriers to effective communication between Indigenous communities and health care providers in Northern Argentina: an anthropological contribution to Chagas disease prevention and control
Ana Dell’Arciprete, José Braunstein, Cecilia Touris, Graciela Dinardi, Ignacio Llovet, Sergio Sosa-Estani
Socioeconomic inequalities in the non-use of dental care in Europe
Anastase Tchicaya, Nathalie Lorentz
Gender differences in the use of health care in China: cross-sectional analysis
Yan Song, Ying Bian
An observational study of socioeconomic and clinical gradients among diabetes patients hospitalized for avoidable causes: evidence of underlying health disparities in China?
Brian Chen, Karen Eggleston, Hong Li, Nilay Shah, Jian Wang
Inequities in access to health care in different health systems: a study in municipalities of central Colombia and north-eastern Brazil
Irene Garcia-Subirats, Ingrid Vargas, Amparo Susana Mogollón-Pérez, Pierre De Paepe, Maria Rejane Ferreira da Silva, Jean Pierre Unger, Carme Borrell, Maria Luisa Vázquez
Personal and social determinants sustaining smoking practices in rural China: a qualitative study
Aimei Mao, Tingzhong Yang, Joan L Bottorff, Gayl Sarbit
“No one says ‘No’ to money” – a mixed methods approach for evaluating conditional cash transfer schemes to improve girl children’s status in Haryana, India
Anand Krishnan, Ritvik Amarchand, Peter Byass, Chandrakant Pandav, Nawi Ng
Egalitarianism and altruism in health: some evidence of their relationship
Ignacio Abásolo, Aki Tsuchiya
Socioeconomic inequalities in smoking in low and mid income countries: positive gradients among women?
Jizzo R Bosdriesz, Selma Mehmedovic, Margot I Witvliet, Anton E Kunst
The role of communication inequality in mediating the impacts of socioecological and socioeconomic disparities on HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk perception
Mesfin Awoke Bekalu, Steven Eggermont
The inequity of the Swiss health care system financing from a federal state perspective
Luca Crivelli, Paola Salari
Socioeconomic inequalities in HIV/AIDS prevalence in sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from the Demographic Health Surveys
Mohammad Hajizadeh, Drissa Sia, S Jody Heymann, Arijit Nandi
Long-term survival among older patients with myocardial infarction differs by educational level: results from the MONICA/KORA myocardial infarction registry
Inge Kirchberger, Christa Meisinger, Hildegard Golüke, Margit Heier, Bernhard Kuch, Annette Peters, Philip A Quinones, Wolfgang von Scheidt, Andreas Mielck
Community-based health insurance programmes and the national health insurance scheme of Nigeria: challenges to uptake and integration
Isaac AO Odeyemi
Determinants of health insurance ownership among women in Kenya: evidence from the 2008–09 Kenya demographic and health survey
James K Kimani, Remare Ettarh, Charlotte Warren, Ben Bellows
Psychosomatic symptoms and low psychological well-being in relation to employment status: the influence of social capital in a large cross-sectional study in Sweden
Cecilia Åslund, Bengt Starrin, Kent W Nilsson
The effects of China’s urban basic medical insurance schemes on the equity of health service utilisation: evidence from Shaanxi Province
Zhongliang Zhou, Liang Zhu, Zhiying Zhou, Zhengya Li, Jianmin Gao, Gang Chen
Mental health inequalities in Slovenian 15-year-old adolescents explained by personal social position and family socioeconomic status
Helena Jeriček Klanšček, Janina Žiberna, Aleš Korošec, Joca Zurc, Tit Albreht
Understanding HIV care delays in the US South and the role of the social-level in HIV care engagement/retention: a qualitative study
Courtenay Sprague, Sara E Simon
Health care seeking behaviour and utilisation in a multiple health insurance system: does insurance affiliation matter?
Eunice Nahyuha Chomi, Phares GM Mujinja, Ulrika Enemark, Kristian Hansen, Angwara Dennis Kiwara
Health care seeking patterns and out of pocket payments for children under five years of age living in Katchi Abadis (slums), in Islamabad, Pakistan
Aneeqa Rehman, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Katrina A Ronis
A community-based approach to indigent selection is difficult to organize in a formal neighbourhood in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: a mixed methods exploratory study
Valéry Ridde, Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane B Soura, Fiacre Bazié, Kadidiatou Kadio
Quality improvements in diabetes care, how holistic have they been? A case-study from the United Kingdom
Emma Wilkinson, Gurch Randhawa, Maninder Singh
Inequalities in public health care delivery in Zambia
Jane Phiri, John E Ataguba
Gender and regional disparities of tuberculosis in Hunan, China
Mengshi Chen, Abuaku Benjamin Kwaku, Youfang Chen, Xin Huang, Hongzhuan Tan, Shi Wu Wen
Suggestions to ameliorate the inequity in urban/rural allocation of healthcare resources in China
Yiyi Chen, Zhou Yin, Qiong Xie
Socioeconomic inequalities and body mass index in Västerbotten County, Sweden: a longitudinal study of life course influences over two decades
Mojgan Padyab, Margareta Norberg
Lessons from sexual and reproductive health voucher program design and function: a comprehensive review
Corinne Grainger, Anna Gorter, Jerry Okal, Ben Bellows
Inequalities in health status among rural residents: EQ-5D findings from household survey China
Haitao Li, Xiaolin Wei, Aixia Ma, Roger Y Chung
Income related inequalities in New Cooperative Medical Scheme: a five-year empirical study of Junan County in China
Shasha Yuan, Clas Rehnberg, Xiaojie Sun, Xiaoyun Liu, Qingyue Meng
Socioeconomic differences in self-rated health among women: a comparison of St. Petersburg to Estonia and Finland
Tatiana Dubikaytis, Tommi Härkänen, Elena Regushevskaya, Elina Hemminki, Elina Haavio-Mannila, Made Laanpere, Olga Kuznetsova, Seppo Koskinen
Health inequalities and development plans in Iran; an analysis of the past three decades (1984–2010)
Hossein Zare, Antonio J Trujillo, Julia Driessen, Mojtaba Ghasemi, Gisselle Gallego
Who is using the morning-after pill? Inequalities in emergency contraception use among ever partnered Nicaraguan women; findings from a national survey
Mariano Salazar, Ann ohman
European economic crisis and health inequities: research challenges in an uncertain scenario
Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Amaia Bacigalupe, Miguel San Sebastian
Do low-income coronary artery bypass surgery patients have equal opportunity to access excellent quality of care and enjoy good outcome in Taiwan?
Tsung-Hsien Yu, Yu-Chang Hou, Kuo-Piao Chung
Quality of uncomplicated malaria case management in Ghana among insured and uninsured patients
Ama P Fenny, Kristian S Hansen, Ulrika Enemark, Felix A Asante
The financial crisis, health and health inequities in Europe: the need for regulations, redistribution and social protection
Roberto De Vogli
Equity in utilization of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected people in South Africa: a systematic review
Noor Tromp, Charlotte Michels, Evelinn Mikkelsen, Jan Hontelez, Rob Baltussen
Employers´ paradoxical views about temporary foreign migrant workers´ health: a qualitative study in rural farms in Southern Ontario
Miya Narushima, Ana Lourdes Sanchez
Multiple social disadvantage does it have an effect on amenable mortality: a brief report
Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Reijo Sund, Sakari Karvonen
Global constitutionalism, responsibility to protect, and extra-territorial obligations to realize the right to health: time to overcome the double standard (once again)
Gorik Ooms, Rachel Hammonds
Community participation in formulating the post-2015 health and development goal agenda: reflections of a multi-country research collaboration
Claire E Brolan, Sameera Hussain, Eric A Friedman, Ana Lorena Ruano, Moses Mulumba, Itai Rusike, Claudia Beiersmann, Peter S Hill
Community collaboration to increase foreign-born women´s participation in a cervical cancer screening program in Sweden: a quality improvement project
Erik Olsson, Malena Lau, Svante Lifvergren, Alexander Chakhunashvili
Exploring sex differences in drug use, health and service use characteristics among young urban crack users in Brazil
Neilane Bertoni, Chantal Burnett, Marcelo Santos Cruz, Tarcisio Andrade, Francisco I Bastos, Erotildes Leal, Benedikt Fischer
Participant views on participating in a pragmatic randomised controlled trial: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women´s Fitness Program
Karla Canuto, Robyn McDermott, Margaret Cargo
Community treatment orders and the experiences of ethnic minority individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness in the Canadian mental health system
Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy
From individual coping strategies to illness codification: the reflection of gender in social science research on Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)
Geneviève Nadeau, Katherine Lippel
Economic crisis, immigrant women and changing availability of intimate partner violence services: a qualitative study of professionals´ perceptions in Spain
Erica Briones-Vozmediano, Andres A Agudelo-Suarez, Isabel Goicolea, Carmen Vives-Cases
Changes in social inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in Southern Europe: the case of the Basque Country
Unai Martin, Santiago Esnaola
Examining the potential contribution of social theory to developing and supporting Australian Indigenous-mainstream health service partnerships
Emma Haynes, Kate P Taylor, Angela Durey, Dawn Bessarab, Sandra C Thompson
Factors associated with unhealthy behaviours and health outcomes: a cross-sectional study among tuscan adolescents (Italy)
Giacomo Lazzeri, Elena Azzolini, Andrea Pammolli, Rita Simi, Veronica Meoni, Mariano Vincenzo Giacchi
Factors associated with healthcare avoidance among transgender women in Argentina
María Eugenia Socías, Brandon DL Marshall, Inès Arístegui, Marcela Romero, Pedro Cahn, Thomas Kerr, Omar Sued
The buffering effect of tangible social support on financial stress: influence on psychological well-being and psychosomatic symptoms in a large sample of the adult general population
Cecilia Åslund, Peter Larm, Bengt Starrin, Kent W Nilsson
Shaped by asymmetrical interdependence: a qualitative case study of the external influences on international non-governmental organizations´ implementation of equity principles in HIV/AIDS work
Elizabeth Dyke, Nancy Edwards, Ian McDowell, Richard Muga, Stephen Brown
Perceptions and experiences of access to public healthcare by people with disabilities and older people in Uganda
Moses Mulumba, Juliana Nantaba, Claire E Brolan, Ana Lorena Ruano, Katie Brooker, Rachel Hammonds
Social determinants of health in India: progress and inequities across states
Krycia Cowling, Rakhi Dandona, Lalit Dandona
Achieving equity within universal health coverage: a narrative review of progress and resources for measuring success
Anna M Rodney, Peter S Hill
Facilitating health and wellbeing is "everybody's role": youth perspectives from Vanuatu on health and the post-2015 sustainable development goal agenda
Simon A Sheridan, Claire E Brolan, Lisa Fitzgerald, John Tasserei, Marie-France Maleb, Jean-Jacques Rory, Peter S Hill
Health, equity and the post-2015 agenda: raising the voices of marginalized communities
Ana Lorena Ruano, Eric A Friedman, Peter S Hill
Trends in and socio-demographic factors associated with caesarean section at a Tanzanian referral hospital, 2000 to 2013
Cecilie Nilsen, Truls Østbye, Anne Kjersti Daltveit, Blandina Theophil Mmbaga, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy
Unemployment at municipality level is associated with an increased risk of small for gestational age births - a multilevel analysis of all singleton births during 2005-2010 in Finland
Sari Räisänen, Michael R Kramer, Mika Gissler, Juho Saari, Seppo Heinonen
Inequalities in the social determinants of health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: a cross-sectional population-based study in the Australian state of Victoria
Alison Markwick, Zahid Ansari, Mary Sullivan, Lorraine Parsons, John McNeil
Cultural continuity, traditional Indigenous language, and diabetes in Alberta First Nations: a mixed methods study
Richard T Oster, Angela Grier, Rick Lightning, Maria J Mayan, Ellen L Toth
Disparities experienced by Aboriginal compared to non-Aboriginal metropolitan Western Australians in receiving coronary angiography following acute ischaemic heart disease: the impact of age and comorbidities
Derrick Lopez, Judith M Katzenellenbogen, Frank M Sanfilippo, John A Woods, Michael S T Hobbs, Matthew W Knuiman, Tom G Briffa, Peter L Thompson, Sandra C Thompson
Premature mortality due to social and material deprivation in Nova Scotia, Canada
Nathalie Saint-Jacques, Ron Dewar, Yunsong Cui, Louise Parker, Trevor JB Dummer
Contemporary employment arrangements and mental well-being in men and women across Europe: a cross-sectional study
Deborah De Moortel, Hadewijch Vandenheede, Christophe Vanroelen
Socioeconomic inequalities in mental well-being among Hungarian adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Szabolcs Varga, Bettina F Piko, Kevin M Fitzpatrick
Income-related children’s health inequality and health achievement in China
Lu Chen, Ya Wu, Peter C Coyte
A three-stage approach to measuring health inequalities and inequities
Yukiko Asada, Jeremiah Hurley, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Mira Johri
Inequities in accessibility to and utilisation of maternal health services in Ghana after user-fee exemption: a descriptive study
John K Ganle, Michael Parker, Raymond Fitzpatrick, Easmon Otupiri
Factors that influence the turnover intention of Chinese village doctors based on the investigation results of Xiangyang City in Hubei Province
Pengqian Fang, Xiangli Liu, Lingxiao Huang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Zi Fang
Primary care priorities in addressing health equity: summary of the WONCA 2013 health equity workshop
Efrat Shadmi, William CW Wong, Karen Kinder, Iona Heath, Michael Kidd
The prevalence and determinants of catastrophic health expenditures attributable to non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a methodological commentary
Yevgeniy Goryakin, Marc Suhrcke
Malaria prevention measures in Burkina Faso: distribution and households expenditures
Fadima Yaya Bocoum, Danielle Belemsaga, Alex Adjagba, Damian Walker, Seni Kouanda, Halidou Tinto
Who uses NHS Direct? Investigating the impact of ethnicity on the uptake of telephone based healthcare
Erica J Cook, Gurch Randhawa, Shirley Large, Andy Guppy, Angel M Chater, Dong Pang
Social factors in childhood and risk of depressive symptoms among adolescents - a longitudinal study in Stockholm, Sweden
Therese Wirback, Jette Möller, Jan-Olov Larsson, Maria Rosaria Galanti, Karin Engström
Erratum to: Horizontal equity in health care utilization in Brazil, 1998-2008
James Macinko, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa
Adolescent health and adaptation in Canada: examination of gender and age aspects of the healthy immigrant effect
Kyunghwa Kwak, Floyd Rudmin
Sex differences in perceived risk and testing experience of HIV in an urban fishing setting in Ghana
Alfred E Yawson, Labi K Appiah, Anita O Yawson, George Bonsu, Simon Aluze-Ele, Nana AK Owusu Amanhyia, Margaret Lartey, Andrew A Adjei, Aaron L Lawson, Curt Beckwith, Awewura Kwara, Timothy Flanigan
Labor force participation and secondary education of gender inequality index (GII) associated with healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth
Jong In Kim, Gukbin Kim
Metabolic syndrome related health inequalities in Korean elderly: Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHAES)
Hak-Seon Kim
Exploring inequities in skilled care at birth among migrant population in a metropolitan city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; a qualitative study
Alemnesh H Mirkuzie
Socio-economic factors associated with maternal health-seeking behaviours among women from poor households in rural Egypt
Lenka Benova, Oona MR Campbell, Hania Sholkamy, George B Ploubidis
Chronic conditions and medical expenditures among non-institutionalized adults in the United States
De-Chih Lee, Leiyu Shi, Geraldine Pierre, Jinsheng Zhu, Ruwei Hu
A cross-sectional ecological study of spatial scale and geographic inequality in access to drinking-water and sanitation
Weiyu Yu, Robert ES Bain, Shawky Mansour, Jim A Wright
Relationship between risk factors and in-hospital mortality due to myocardial infarction by educational level: a national prospective study in Iran
Ali Ahmadi, Arsalan Khaledifar, Homeira Sajjadi, Hamid Soori
Socioeconomic inequalities are still a barrier to full child vaccine coverage in the Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil
Fernando Luiz Cunha Castelo Branco, Thasciany Moraes Pereira, Breno Matos Delfino, Athos Muniz Braña, Humberto Oliart-Guzmán, Saulo Augusto Silva Mantovani, Antonio Camargo Martins, Cristieli Sérgio de Menezes Oliveira, Alanderson Alves Ramalho, Claudia Torres Codeço, Mônica da Silva-Nunes
Is socioeconomic status associated with utilization of health care services in a single-payer universal health care system?
Dani Filc, Nadav Davidovich, Lena Novack, Ran D Balicer
Trend in distribution of primary health care professionals in Jiangsu province of eastern China
Kang Xu, Kaijin Zhang, Dan Wang, Ling Zhou
Social inequalities in the utilization of maternal care in Bangladesh: Have they widened or narrowed in recent years?
Mohammad Hajizadeh, Nazmul Alam, Arijit Nandi
An intersectionality-based policy analysis framework: critical reflections on a methodology for advancing equity
Olena Hankivsky, Daniel Grace, Gemma Hunting, Melissa Giesbrecht, Alycia Fridkin, Sarah Rudrum, Olivier Ferlatte, Natalie Clark
Using the unmet obstetric needs indicator to map inequities in life-saving obstetric interventions at the local health care system in Kenya
Elizabeth Echoka, Dominique Dubourg, Anselimo Makokha, Yeri Kombe, Øystein Evjen Olsen, Moses Mwangi, Bjorg Evjen-Olsen, Jens Byskov
Gender, smoking and tobacco reduction and cessation: a scoping review
Joan L Bottorff, Rebecca Haines-Saah, Mary T Kelly, John L Oliffe, Iris Torchalla, Nancy Poole, Lorraine Greaves, Carole A Robinson, Mary HH Ensom, Chizimuzo TC Okoli, J Craig Phillips
Understanding the inverse care law: a register and survey-based study of patient deprivation and burnout in general practice
Anette Fischer Pedersen, Peter Vedsted
Cross-sector collaborations in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childhood disability: a systematic integrative review and theory-based synthesis
Anna Green, Michelle DiGiacomo, Tim Luckett, Penelope Abbott, Patricia Mary Davidson, Joanne Delaney, Patricia Delaney
Multidimensional poverty and health: evidence from a nationwide survey in Japan
Takashi Oshio, Mari Kan
Road to better health and integration: a Delphi study on health service models for Hong Kong migrants
William CW Wong, Petula SY Ho, Jun Liang, Eleanor A Holroyd, Cindy LK Lam, Agnes MY Pau
Annotated bibliography on participatory consultations to help aid the inclusion of marginalized perspectives in setting policy agendas
Faraz Rahim Siddiqui
Duration of residence and psychotropic drug use in recently settled refugees in Sweden - a register-based study
Maria Brendler-Lindqvist, Marie Norredam, Anders Hjern
Indicators for Universal Health Coverage: can Kenya comply with the proposed post-2015 monitoring recommendations?
Valerie Obare, Claire E Brolan, Peter S Hill
Differences in health care utilisation between elderly from ethnic minorities and ethnic Dutch elderly
Ilona Verhagen, Wynand JG Ros, Bas Steunenberg, Wijnand Laan, Niek J de Wit
Aboriginal medical services cure more than illness: a qualitative study of how Indigenous services address the health impacts of discrimination in Brisbane communities
Josifini T Baba, Claire E Brolan, Peter S Hill
Making the post-MDG global health goals relevant for highly inequitable societies: findings from a consultation with marginalized populations in Guatemala
Ana Lorena Ruano, Silvia Sánchez, Fernando José Jerez, Walter Flores
Inequalities in health care among patients with type 2 diabetes by individual socio-economic status (SES) and regional deprivation: a systematic literature review
Olga Grintsova, Werner Maier, Andreas Mielck
Determining the impacts of hospital cost-sharing on the uninsured near-poor households in Vietnam
Duong Anh Vuong, Steffen Flessa, Paul Marschall, Son Thai Ha, Khue Ngoc Luong, Reinhard Busse
Priority setting in Indigenous health: assessing priority setting process and criteria that should guide the health system to improve Indigenous Australian health
Michael E Otim, Margaret Kelaher, Ian P Anderson, Chris M Doran
Access to institutional delivery care and reasons for home delivery in three districts of Tanzania
Amon Exavery, Almamy Malick Kanté, Mustafa Njozi, Kassimu Tani, Henry V Doctor, Ahmed Hingora, James F Phillips
Health-income inequality: the effects of the Icelandic economic collapse
Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, Dagný Ósk Ragnarsdóttir
Economic crisis and suicidal behaviour: the role of unemployment, sex and age in Andalusia, Southern Spain
Juan Antonio Córdoba-Doña, Miguel San Sebastián, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Jesús Enrique Martínez-Faure, Per E Gustafsson
Increasing health inequalities between women in and out of work - the impact of recession or policy change? A repeated cross-sectional study in Stockholm county, 2006 and 2010
Sandra Blomqvist, Bo Burström, Mona C Backhans
Impact of pharmaceutical policy interventions on utilization of antipsychotic medicines in Finland and Portugal in times of economic recession: interrupted time series analyses
Christine Leopold, Fang Zhang, Aukje K Mantel-Teeuwisse, Sabine Vogler, Silvia Valkova, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Anita K Wagner
The role of private health providers in HIV testing: analysis of data from 18 countries
Doug Johnson, Xi Cheng
A repeated cross-sectional study of socio-economic inequities in dietary sodium consumption among Canadian adults: implications for national sodium reduction strategies
Lindsay McLaren, Shayla Heidinger, Daniel J Dutton, Valerie Tarasuk, Norman R Campbell
Inequalities in multiple health outcomes by education, sex, and race in 93 US counties: Why we should measure them all
Yukiko Asada, Alyce Whipp, David Kindig, Beverly Billard, Barbara Rudolph
Arabic-speaking migrants’ experiences of the use of interpreters in healthcare: a qualitative explorative study
Emina Hadziabdic, Katarina Hjelm
Discordant indigenous and provider frames explain challenges in improving access to arthritis care: a qualitative study using constructivist grounded theory
Wilfreda E Thurston, Stephanie Coupal, C Allyson Jones, Lynden FJ Crowshoe, Deborah A Marshall, Joanne Homik, Cheryl Barnabe
Barriers in access to healthcare services for chronic patients in times of austerity: an empirical approach in Greece
Ilias-Ioannis Kyriopoulos, Dimitris Zavras, Anastasis Skroumpelos, Katerina Mylona, Kostas Athanasakis, John Kyriopoulos
The impact of economic crises on social inequalities in health: what do we know so far?
Amaia Bacigalupe, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar
Age-period-cohort analysis on the cancer mortality in rural China: 1990–2010
Peigang Wang, Chunling Xu, Chuanhua Yu
An explanatory analysis of economic and health inequality changes among Mexican indigenous people, 2000-2010
Edson Servan-Mori, Pilar Torres-Pereda, Emanuel Orozco, Sandra G Sosa-Rubí