Issue 1/2017
Content (216 Articles)
Intragenerational social mobility and functional somatic symptoms in a northern Swedish context: analyses of diagonal reference models
Frida Jonsson, Miguel San Sebastian, Anne Hammarström, Per E. Gustafsson
Erratum to: Trends and determinants of inequities in childhood stunting in Bangladesh from 1996/7 to 2014
Atonu Rabbani, Akib Khan, Sifat Yusuf, Alayne Adams
Aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian former prisoners’ patterns of morbidity and risk of hospitalisation
Jane E. Lloyd, Elizabeth McEntyre, Eileen Baldry, Julian Trofimovos, Devon Indig, Penelope Abbott, Jennifer Reath, Kathy Malera-Bandjalan, Mark F. Harris
Disability, support and long-term social care of an elderly Spanish population, 2008-2009: an epidemiologic analysis
J. Almazán-Isla, M. Comín-Comín, E. Alcalde-Cabero, C. Ruiz, E. Franco, R. Magallón, J. Damián, J. de Pedro-Cuesta, L. A. Larrosa-Montañes, Javier Almazán, Fuencisla Avellanal, Enrique Alcalde, Juan Manuel Castellote, Javier Damián, Joao Forjaz, Belén Frades, Pablo Martínez-Martín, Jesús de Pedro Cuesta, Javier Virués-Ortega, Magdalena Comín, Ana Peña, Alarcos Cieza, Heinrich Gall, Geoffrey Reed, Olga Burzaco, Esther Franco, Cristina Ruiz, Cristina Martinez, Natividad Romanos, Maria José Tris, Susana Coloma, Rosa Magallón, Gloria Martín Gracia
A qualitative study on African immigrant and refugee families’ experiences of accessing primary health care services in Manitoba, Canada: it’s not easy!
Roberta Lynn Woodgate, David Shiyokha Busolo, Maryanne Crockett, Ruth Anne Dean, Miriam R. Amaladas, Pierre J. Plourde
Has equity in government subsidy on healthcare improved in China? Evidence from the China’s National Health Services Survey
Lei Si, Mingsheng Chen, Andrew J. Palmer
Determinants of and socio-economic disparities in self-rated health in China
Jiaoli Cai, Peter C. Coyte, Hongzhong Zhao
Gender bias and sex-based differences in health care efficiency in Polish regions
Błażej Łyszczarz
Development of village doctors in China: financial compensation and health system support
Dan Hu, Weiming Zhu, Yaqun Fu, Minmin Zhang, Yang Zhao, Kara Hanson, Melisa Martinez-Alvarez, Xiaoyun Liu
The equity of China’s emergency medical services from 2010–2014
Ke Yan, Yi Jiang, Jingfu Qiu, Xiaoni Zhong, Yang Wang, Jing Deng, Jingxi Lian, Tingting Wang, Cheng Cao
Erratum to: Socioeconomic variation in incidence of primary and secondary major cardiovascular disease events: an Australian population-based prospective cohort study
Rosemary J. Korda, Kay Soga, Grace Joshy, Bianca Calabria, John Attia, Deborah Wong, Emily Banks
The intergenerational production of depression in South Korea: results from a cross-sectional study
B. G. Jeong, G. Veenstra
The right to health of non-nationals and displaced persons in the sustainable development goals era: challenges for equity in universal health care
Claire E. Brolan, Lisa Forman, Stéphanie Dagron, Rachel Hammonds, Attiya Waris, Lyla Latif, Ana Lorena Ruano
Does equity in healthcare spending exist among Indian states? Explaining regional variations from national sample survey data
Rinshu Dwivedi, Jalandhar Pradhan
Economic burden of family caregiving for elderly population in southern Ghana: the case of a peri-urban district
Stephen Tettey Nortey, Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Moses Aikins, Djesika Amendah, Justice Nonvignon
Advancing system and policy changes for social and racial justice: comparing a Rural and Urban Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership in the U.S.
Carlos Devia, Elizabeth A. Baker, Shannon Sanchez-Youngman, Ellen Barnidge, Maxine Golub, Freda Motton, Michael Muhammad, Charmaine Ruddock, Belinda Vicuña, Nina Wallerstein
From local adaptation to activism and global solidarity: framing a research and innovation agenda towards true health equity
Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin
Strengthening health system to improve immunization for migrants in China
Hai Fang, Li Yang, Huyang Zhang, Chenyang Li, Liankui Wen, Li Sun, Kara Hanson, Qingyue Meng
Equitable health services for the young? A decomposition of income-related inequalities in young adults’ utilization of health care in Northern Sweden
Paola A. Mosquera, Anna-Karin Waenerlund, Isabel Goicolea, Per E. Gustafsson
Multidimensional poverty and catastrophic health spending in the mountainous regions of Myanmar, Nepal and India
Sanjay K. Mohanty, Nand Kishor Agrawal, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Dhrupad Choudhury, Sabarnee Tuladhar, E Valdemar Holmgren
Embodying pervasive discrimination: a decomposition of sexual orientation inequalities in health in a population-based cross-sectional study in Northern Sweden
Per E Gustafsson, Ida Linander, Paola A Mosquera
Socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived oral health among adults in Chile
Francisco Gallego, Cristián Larroulet, Leonor Palomer, Andrea Repetto, Diego Verdugo
Family health strategy and equity in prenatal care: a population based cross-sectional study in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mônica Viegas Andrade, Kenya Valéria Micaela de Souza Noronha, Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa, Michelle Nepomuceno Souza, Júlia Almeida Calazans, Lucas Resende de Carvalho, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Núbia Cristina Silva
Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi
Martina Mchenga, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Levison S. Chiwaula
Engaging with complexity to improve the health of indigenous people: a call for the use of systems thinking to tackle health inequity
Alison Hernández, Ana Lorena Ruano, Bruno Marchal, Miguel San Sebastián, Walter Flores
Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and its inequality for households with hypertension: evidence from the rural areas of Shaanxi Province in China
Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Min Su, Meng Ma, Yongjian Xu, Jesse Heitner
Risk factors of bicycle traffic injury among middle school students in chaoshan rural areas of china
Zhen-bin Lin, Yan-hu Ji, Qing-yu Xiao, Li-bo Luo, Li-ping Li, Bernard Choi
Equity aspects of the Primary Health Care Choice Reform in Sweden – a scoping review
Bo Burström, Kristina Burström, Gunnar Nilsson, Göran Tomson, Margaret Whitehead, Ulrika Winblad
What limits the utilization of health services among china labor force? analysis of inequalities in demographic, socio-economic and health status
Liming Lu, Jingchun Zeng, Zhi Zeng
Assessing the impoverishing effects, and factors associated with the incidence of catastrophic health care payments in Kenya
Edwine W. Barasa, Thomas Maina, Nirmala Ravishankar
Implementing guidelines and training initiatives to improve cross-cultural communication in primary care consultations: a qualitative participatory European study
E. Teunissen, K. Gravenhorst, C. Dowrick, E. Van Weel-Baumgarten, F. Van den Driessen Mareeuw, T. de Brún, N. Burns, C. Lionis, F. S. Mair, C. O’Donnell, M. O’Reilly-de Brún, M. Papadakaki, A. Saridaki, W. Spiegel, C. Van Weel, M. Van den Muijsenbergh, A. MacFarlane
Educational health disparities in hypertension and diabetes mellitus among African descent populations in the Caribbean and the USA: a comparative analysis from the Spanish town cohort (Jamaica) and the Jackson heart study (USA)
Aurelian Bidulescu, Trevor S. Ferguson, Ian Hambleton, Novie Younger-Coleman, Damian Francis, Nadia Bennett, Michael Griswold, Ervin Fox, Marlene MacLeish, Rainford Wilks, E. Nigel Harris, Louis W. Sullivan
Socioeconomic inequalities in dental health among middle-aged adults and the role of behavioral and psychosocial factors: evidence from the Spanish National Health Survey
Diego Alberto Capurro, Michael Davidsen
Looking forward to the next 15 years: innovation and new pathways for research in health equity
Ana Lorena Ruano, Efrat Shadmi, John Furler, Krishna Rao, Miguel San Sebastián, Manuela Villar Uribe, Leiyu Shi
Internalized homophobia, mental health, sexual behaviors, and outness of gay/bisexual men from Southwest China
Wenjian Xu, Lijun Zheng, Yin Xu, Yong Zheng
Trends of relative and absolute socioeconomic equity in access to coronary revascularisations in 1995–2010 in Finland: a register study
Sonja Lumme, Kristiina Manderbacka, Ilmo Keskimäki
Should co-payments for financially deprived patients be lowered? Primary care physicians’ perspectives using a mixed-methods approach in a survey study in Tokyo
Machiko Inoue, Yuko Kachi
The cost of free health care for all Kenyans: assessing the financial sustainability of contributory and non-contributory financing mechanisms
Vincent Okungu, Jane Chuma, Di McIntyre
Subjective social status, social network and health disparities: empirical evidence from Greece
Antonios Charonis, Ilias-Ioannis Kyriopoulos, Manos Spanakis, Dimitris Zavras, Kostas Athanasakis, Elpida Pavi, John Kyriopoulos
Effect of socioeconomic conditions on health care utilization in marital violence: a cross-sectional investigation from the Japanese Study on Stratification, Health, Income, and Neighborhood
Maki Umeda, Norito Kawakami, Elizabeth Miller
Inequality in the distribution of health resources and health services in China: hospitals versus primary care institutions
Tao Zhang, Yongjian Xu, Jianping Ren, Liqi Sun, Chaojie Liu
Multifactorial discrimination as a fundamental cause of mental health inequities
Mariam Khan, Misja Ilcisin, Katherine Saxton
The role of health system governance in strengthening the rural health insurance system in China
Beibei Yuan, Weiyan Jian, Li He, Bingyu Wang, Dina Balabanova
Socio-economic factors linked with mental health during the recession: a multilevel analysis
Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Clara Bermúdez-Tamayo, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco
Differential effects of community health worker visits across social and economic groups in Uttar Pradesh, India: a link between social inequities and health disparities
Aparna Seth, Shweta Tomar, Kultar Singh, Dharmendra Chandurkar, Amit Chakraverty, Arnab Dey, Arup K. Das, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Sabrina Boyce, Anita Raj, Jay G. Silverman
The role of parental health care utilization in children’s unnecessary utilization in China: evidence from Shaanxi province
Yi Zhang, Zhongliang Zhou, Yafei Si
How equitable is the uptake of conditional cash transfers for maternity care in India? Evidence from the Janani Suraksha Yojana scheme in Odisha and Jharkhand
Nattawut Thongkong, Ellen van de Poel, Swati Sarbani Roy, Shibanand Rath, Tanja A. J. Houweling
Extending access to essential services against constraints: the three-tier health service delivery system in rural China (1949–1980)
Xing Lin Feng, Melisa Martinez-Alvarez, Jun Zhong, Jin Xu, Beibei Yuan, Qingyue Meng, Dina Balabanova
Urban-rural disparities in hypertension prevalence, detection, and medication use among Chinese Adults from 1993 to 2011
Jiajia Li, Leiyu Shi, Shixue Li, Lingzhong Xu, Wen Qin, Heng Wang
Expectations of health care quality among rural Maya villagers in Sololá Department, Guatemala: a qualitative analysis
Matthew Ippolito, Anita Chary, Michael Daniel, Joaquin Barnoya, Anne Monroe, Michelle Eakin
Does Indigenous health research have impact? A systematic review of reviews
Irina Kinchin, Janya Mccalman, Roxanne Bainbridge, Komla Tsey, Felecia Watkin Lui
The imperative for systems thinking to promote access to medicines, efficient delivery, and cost-effectiveness when implementing health financing reforms: a qualitative study
Tom Achoki, Abaleng Lesego
Critical race theory as a tool for understanding poor engagement along the HIV care continuum among African American/Black and Hispanic persons living with HIV in the United States: a qualitative exploration
Robert Freeman, Marya Viorst Gwadz, Elizabeth Silverman, Alexandra Kutnick, Noelle R. Leonard, Amanda S. Ritchie, Jennifer Reed, Belkis Y. Martinez
Increased breast cancer mortality only in the lower education group: age-period-cohort effect in breast cancer mortality by educational level in South Korea, 1983-2012
Jinwook Bahk, Sung-Mi Jang, Kyunghee Jung-Choi
Social sciences: vital to improving our understanding of health equity, policy and systems
Karen Daniels, Johanna Hanefeld, Bruno Marchal
The effect of health literacy and self-management efficacy on the health-related quality of life of hypertensive patients in a western rural area of China: a cross-sectional study
Chenli Wang, Juntao Lang, Lixia Xuan, Xuemei Li, Liang Zhang
Inequalities in financial risk protection in Bangladesh: an assessment of universal health coverage
Md. Rashedul Islam, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Zobida Islam, Cherri Zhang B. Nurs, Papia Sultana, Md. Mizanur Rahman
Social determinants of breast cancer in the Caribbean: a systematic review
Catherine R. Brown, Ian R. Hambleton, Shawn M. Hercules, Miriam Alvarado, Nigel Unwin, Madhuvanti M. Murphy, E. Nigel Harris, Rainford Wilks, Marlene MacLeish, Louis Sullivan, Natasha Sobers-Grannum, M. Alvarado, N. Bennet, A. Bidulescu, CR. Brown, T. Ferguson, D. Francis, I. R. Hambleton, E. N. Harris, C. Hassell, A. J. M. Hennis, SM. Hercules, C. Howitt, M. MacLeish, MM. Murphy, T. A. Samuels, N. Sobers-Grannum, L. Sullivan, N. Unwin, R. Wilks, L. Williams, N. Younger-Coleman
The association of early life socioeconomic conditions with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes: results from the Maastricht study
Ivonne P. M. Derks, Annemarie Koster, Miranda T. Schram, Coen D. A. Stehouwer, Pieter C. Dagnelie, Danielle A. I. Groffen, Hans Bosma
The impact of multi-morbidity on disability among older adults in South Africa: do hypertension and socio-demographic characteristics matter?
Philippa Waterhouse, Nele van der Wielen, Pamela Chirwa Banda, Andrew Amos Channon
Influence maternal background has on children’s mental health
Elena Arroyo-Borrell, Gemma Renart, Carme Saurina, Marc Saez
Determinants of village doctors’ job satisfaction under China’s health sector reform: a cross-sectional mixed methods study
Tongtong Li, Trudy Lei, Fiona Sun, Zheng Xie
Mainstreaming gender and promoting intersectionality in Papua New Guinea’s health policy: a triangulated analysis applying data-mining and content analytic techniques
G. Lamprell, J. Braithwaite
Analysis of inequality in maternal and child health outcomes and mortality from 2000 to 2013 in China
Yanting Li, Yimin Zhang, Shuai Fang, Shanshan Liu, Xinyu Liu, Ming Li, Hong Liang, Hua Fu
Inequalities in health care utilization for common childhood illnesses in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey
Asmamaw Atnafu Ayalneh, Dagnachew Muluye Fetene, Tae Jin Lee
Interplay wellbeing framework: a collaborative methodology ‘bringing together stories and numbers’ to quantify Aboriginal cultural values in remote Australia
Sheree Cairney, Tammy Abbott, Stephen Quinn, Jessica Yamaguchi, Byron Wilson, John Wakerman
Current and future availability of and need for human resources for sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health in 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Maria Guerra Arias, Andrea Nove, Michaela Michel-Schuldt, Luc de Bernis
Absolute rather than relative income is a better socioeconomic predictor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Swedish adults
Sten Axelsson Fisk, Juan Merlo
Nutritional deficiencies in homeless persons with problematic drinking: a systematic review
Sharea Ijaz, Joni Jackson, Helen Thorley, Katie Porter, Clare Fleming, Alison Richards, Adrian Bonner, Jelena Savović
Leadership and governance of community health worker programmes at scale: a cross case analysis of provincial implementation in South Africa
Helen Schneider, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo
Free and universal, but unequal utilization of primary health care in the rural and urban areas of Mongolia
Javkhlanbayar Dorjdagva, Enkhjargal Batbaatar, Mikael Svensson, Bayarsaikhan Dorjsuren, Burenjargal Batmunkh, Jussi Kauhanen
Patients’ willingness to pay for the treatment of tuberculosis in Nigeria: exploring own use and altruism
Ogbonnia G. Ochonma, Obinna E. Onwujekwe
Inequality in healthcare costs between residing and non-residing patients: evidence from Vietnam
Hieu M. Nguyen
Gender difference in utilization willingness of institutional care among the single seniors: evidence from rural Shandong, China
Yangyang Qian, Jie Chu, Dandan Ge, Li Zhang, Long Sun, Chengchao Zhou
Organisational systems’ approaches to improving cultural competence in healthcare: a systematic scoping review of the literature
Janya McCalman, Crystal Jongen, Roxanne Bainbridge
Measurement and decomposition of socioeconomic inequality in single and multimorbidity in older adults in China and Ghana: results from the WHO study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)
Rasha Kunna, Miguel San Sebastian, Jennifer Stewart Williams
Impact of health workforce availability on health care seeking behavior of patients with diabetes mellitus in China
Yinzi Jin, Weiming Zhu, Beibei Yuan, Qingyue Meng
Assessing equity in the distribution of high-technology medical equipment in Guangxi: evidence from an ethnic minority region in Southern China
Jian Sun, Hai Gu, Qiulin Wen, Hongye Luo
Skilled delivery inequality in Ethiopia: to what extent are the poorest and uneducated mothers benefiting?
Brook Tesfaye, Tsedeke Mathewos, Mihiretu Kebede
Socioeconomic inequalities in neonatal and postneonatal mortality: Evidence from rural Iran, 1998–2013
Alireza Khajavi, Farhad Pishgar, Mina Dehghani, Shohreh Naderimagham
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
Kerry Scott, Asha S. George, Steven A. Harvey, Shinjini Mondal, Gupteswar Patel, Kabir Sheikh
Postings and transfers in the Ghanaian health system: a study of health workforce governance
Aku Kwamie, Miriam Asiamah, Marta Schaaf, Irene Akua Agyepong
Rural–urban difference in the use of annual physical examination among seniors in Shandong, China: a cross-sectional study
Dandan Ge, Jie Chu, Chengchao Zhou, Yangyang Qian, Li Zhang, Long Sun
Interventions to reduce inequalities in health and early child development in Europe from a qualitative perspective
Joana Morrison, Hynek Pikhart, Peter Goldblatt
From therapeutic to elective cesarean deliveries: factors associated with the increase in cesarean deliveries in Chiapas
María Graciela Freyermuth, José Alberto Muños, María del Pilar Ochoa
Towards an equitable healthcare in China: evaluating the productive efficiency of community health centers in Jiangsu Province
Lulin Zhou, Xinglong Xu, Henry Asante Antwi, Linna Wang
Gender-based disparities in the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult health: findings from a national study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Maha Almuneef, Nathalie ElChoueiry, Hassan N. Saleheen, Majid Al-Eissa
Erratum to: Disability, support and long-term social care of an elderly Spanish population, 2008–2009: an epidemiologic analysis
J. Almazán-Isla, M. Comín-Comín, E. Alcalde-Cabero, C. Ruiz, E. Franco, R. Magallón, J. Damián, J. de Pedro-Cuesta, L. A. Larrosa-Montañes
HIV and syphilis in the context of community vulnerability among indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon
Adele Schwartz Benzaken, Meritxell Sabidó, Ivo Brito, Ximena Pamela Díaz Bermúdez, Nina Schwartz Benzaken, Enrique Galbán, Rosanna W Peeling, David Mabey
Considerations and guidance in designing equity-relevant clinical trials
Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Theresa Aves, Beverley Shea, Janet Jull, Vivian Welch, Monica Taljaard, Manosila Yoganathan, Regina Greer-Smith, George Wells, Peter Tugwell
Determinants of self-perceived health for Canadians aged 40 and older and policy implications
William Ian Andrew Bonner, Robert Weiler, Rotimi Orisatoki, Xinya Lu, Mustafa Andkhoie, Dana Ramsay, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Megan Steeves, Michael Szafron, Marwa Farag
Research on subgroups is not research on equity attributes: Evidence from an overview of systematic reviews on vaccination
Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Meike-Kathrin Zuske, Christian Auer
Priorities and strategies for improving Roma women’s access to primary health care services in cases on intimate partner violence: a concept mapping study
Carmen Vives-Cases, Isabel Goicolea, Alison Hernández, Belen Sanz-Barbero, MCarmen Davó-Blanes, Daniel La Parra-Casado
Exploring breast cancer preventive lifestyle and social support of Iranian women: a study protocol for a mixed-methods approach
Maryam Khazaee-Pool, Tahereh Pashaei, Leila Jahangiry, Koen Ponnet, Ali Gholami
The variation in the health status of immigrants and Italians during the global crisis and the role of socioeconomic factors
Alessio Petrelli, Anteo Di Napoli, Alessandra Rossi, Gianfranco Costanzo, Concetta Mirisola, Lidia Gargiulo
Health-care users, key community informants and primary health care workers’ views on health, health promotion, health assets and deficits: qualitative study in seven Spanish regions
Mariona Pons-Vigués, Anna Berenguera, Núria Coma-Auli, Haizea Pombo-Ramos, Sebastià March, Angela Asensio-Martínez, Patricia Moreno-Peral, Sara Mora-Simón, Maria Martínez-Andrés, Enriqueta Pujol-Ribera
Socioeconomic disparities in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension over the life course in China
Fan Yang, Dongfu Qian, Xueyi Liu
Access to treatment for Hepatitis C among injection drug users: results from the cross-sectional HOPE IV study
Kyriakos Souliotis, Eirini Agapidaki, Manto Papageorgiou, Niki Voudouri, Xenophon Contiades
健康是本钱 - Health is my capital: a qualitative study of access to healthcare by Chinese migrants in Singapore
Wai Jia Tam, Wei Leong Goh, Jeffrey Chua, Helena Legido-Quigley
Lifestyle and Income-related Inequality in Health in South Africa
Alfred Kechia Mukong, Corne Van Walbeek, Hana Ross
Progressive disability in elderly population among tribals of Telangana: a cross sectional study
Ajitha Katta, Anil Kumar Indira Krishna, Bagavandas M, Tomofumi Anegawa, Suresh Munuswamy
Inequities in utilization of reproductive and maternal health services in Ethiopia
Firew Tekle Bobo, Elias Ali Yesuf, Mirkuzie Woldie
Challenges for gatekeeping: a qualitative systems analysis of a pilot in rural China
Jin Xu, Anne Mills
Determinants of intra-household food allocation between adults in South Asia – a systematic review
Helen Harris-Fry, Niva Shrestha, Anthony Costello, Naomi M. Saville
Healthcare expenditure on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians at high risk of cardiovascular disease
Blake Angell, Tracey-Lea Laba, Tom Lung, Alex Brown, Sandra Eades, Tim Usherwood, David Peiris, Laurent Billot, Graham Hillis, Ruth Webster, Andrew Tonkin, Christopher Reid, Barbara Molanus, Natasha Rafter, Alan Cass, Anushka Patel, Stephen Jan
Dimensions of social capital of families with thalassemia in an indigenous population in Tamil Nadu, India – a qualitative study
Bharathi Palanisamy, Kalpana Kosalram, Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
Erratum to: Effect of socioeconomic conditions on health care utilization in marital violence: a cross-sectional investigation from the Japanese Study on stratification, health, income, and neighborhood
Maki Umeda, Norito Kawakami, Elizabeth Miller
Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors in children aged 6–59 months among rural dwellers of damot gale district, south Ethiopia: community based cross sectional study
Lamirot Abera, Tariku Dejene, Tariku Laelago
Allocating health care resources: a questionnaire experiment on the predictive success of rules
Marlies Ahlert, Lars Schwettmann
“We are toothless and hanging, but optimistic”: sub county managers’ experiences of rapid devolution in coastal Kenya
Mary M. Nyikuri, Benjamin Tsofa, Philip Okoth, Edwine W. Barasa, Sassy Molyneux
Chronic disease self-management education courses: utilization by low-income, middle-aged participants
Lindsey N. Horrell, Shawn M. Kneipp, SangNam Ahn, Samuel D. Towne Jr, Chivon A. Mingo, Marcia G. Ory, Matthew Lee Smith
Measuring inequalities in the distribution of the Fiji Health Workforce
Virginia Wiseman, Mylene Lagarde, Neha Batura, Sophia Lin, Wayne Irava, Graham Roberts
The impact of racial discrimination on the health of Australian Indigenous children aged 5–10 years: analysis of national longitudinal data
Carrington C.J. Shepherd, Jianghong Li, Matthew N. Cooper, Katrina D. Hopkins, Brad M. Farrant
Area-level socioeconomic deprivation and mortality differentials in Thailand: results from principal component analysis and cluster analysis
Suchunya Aungkulanon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Kenji Shibuya, Kanitta Bundhamcharoen, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
Individual and regional association between socioeconomic status and uncertainty stress, and life stress: a representative nationwide study of China
Tingzhong Yang, Xiaozhao Y Yang, Lingwei Yu, Randall R. Cottrell, Shuhan Jiang
Up close and real: living and learning in a remote community builds students’ cultural capabilities and understanding of health disparities
Rosalie D Thackrah, Maeva Hall, Kathryn Fitzgerald, Sandra C Thompson
It’s all about the money? A qualitative study of healthcare worker motivation in urban China
Ross Millar, Yaru Chen, Meng Wang, Liang Fang, Jun Liu, Zhidong Xuan, Guohong Li
Experiences of inequitable care among Afghan mothers surviving near-miss morbidity in Tehran, Iran: a qualitative interview study
Soheila Mohammadi, Aje Carlbom, Robabeh Taheripanah, Birgitta Essén
House ownership, frequency of illness, fathers’ education: the most significant socio-demographic determinants of poor nutritional status in adolescent girls from low income households of Lahore, Pakistan
Fatima Hassan, Muhammad Asim, Shafya Salim, Ayesha Humayun
Identifying inequitable healthcare in older people: systematic review of current research practice
Sarah M. Salway, Nick Payne, Melanie Rimmer, Stefanie Buckner, Hannah Jordan, Jean Adams, Kate Walters, Sarah L. Sowden, Lynne Forrest, Linda Sharp, Mira Hidajat, Martin White, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
An assessment of equity in the distribution of non-financial health care inputs across public primary health care facilities in Tanzania
August Kuwawenaruwa, Josephine Borghi, Michelle Remme, Gemini Mtei
Non-communicable diseases and related risk behaviors among men and women living with HIV in Cambodia: findings from a cross-sectional study
Pheak Chhoun, Chanrith Ngin, Sovannary Tuot, Khuondyla Pal, Martin Steel, Jennifer Dionisio, Hattie Pearson, Gitau Mburu, Carinne Brody, Siyan Yi
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015
Vu Duy Kien, Tej Ram Jat, Kim Bao Giang, Phan Thi Hai, Doan Thi Thu Huyen, Luong Ngoc Khue, Nguyen Tuan Lam, Phan Thi Quynh Nga, Nguyen The Quan, Hoang Van Minh
Evaluation on equality and efficiency of health resources allocation and health services utilization in China
Jian Sun, Hongye Luo
Decomposing the causes of socioeconomic-related health inequality among urban and rural populations in China: a new decomposition approach
Jiaoli Cai, Peter C. Coyte, Hongzhong Zhao
Supporting and retaining Village Health Teams: an assessment of a community health worker program in two Ugandan districts
Daniel C. Mays, Edward J. O’Neil Jr, Edison A. Mworozi, Benjamin J. Lough, Zachary J. Tabb, Ashlyn E. Whitlock, Edward M. Mutimba, Zohray M. Talib
Medical homelessness and candidacy: women transiting between prison and community health care
Penelope Abbott, Parker Magin, Joyce Davison, Wendy Hu
The rise and fall of dental therapy in Canada: a policy analysis and assessment of equity of access to oral health care for Inuit and First Nations communities
Victoria Leck, Glen E. Randall
A qualitative study on the intersectional social determinants for indigenous people who become infected with HIV in their youth
Roberta L. Woodgate, Melanie Zurba, Pauline Tennent, Carla Cochrane, Mike Payne, Javier Mignone
A population-based study of homicide deaths in Ontario, Canada using linked death records
James Lachaud, Peter D. Donnelly, David Henry, Kathy Kornas, Andrew Calzavara, Catherine Bornbaum, Laura Rosella
Financial crisis and income-related inequalities in the universal provision of a public service: the case of healthcare in Spain
Ignacio Abásolo, Marc Saez, Guillem López-Casasnovas
Obesity in Scotland: a persistent inequality
Elaine Tod, Catherine Bromley, Andrew D. Millard, Allan Boyd, Phil Mackie, Gerry McCartney
What is the gap in activity and participation between people with disability and the general population in Taiwan?
Tzu-Ying Chiu, Chia-Feng Yen, Reuben Escorpizo, Wen-Chou Chi, Tsan-Hon Liou, Hua-Fang Liao, Cheng-Hsiu Chou, Wen-Hui Fang
More than a virus: a qualitative study of the social implications of hepatitis B infection in China
J. Wallace, M. Pitts, C. Liu, V. Lin, B. Hajarizadeh, J. Richmond, S. Locarnini
Is the medical financial assistance program an effective supplement to social health insurance for low-income households in China? A cross-sectional study
Kai Liu, Jing Yang, Chunling Lu
The social income inequality, social integration and health status of internal migrants in China
Yanwei Lin, Qi Zhang, Wen Chen, Li Ling
Factors contributing to regional inequalities in acute respiratory infections symptoms among under-five children in Nigeria: a decomposition analysis
Oluwafunmilade A. Adesanya, Amadou Darboe, Bomar Mendez Rojas, Deji Emmanuel Abiodun, Idrissa Beogo
Intentional injury among the indigenous and total populations in British Columbia, Canada: trends over time and ecological analyses of risk
M. Anne George, Andrew Jin, Mariana Brussoni, Christopher E. Lalonde, Rod McCormick
Occupational status as a determinant of mental health inequities in French young people: is fairness needed? Results of a cross-sectional multicentre observational survey
Marie Blanquet, Emilie Labbe-Lobertreau, Catherine Sass, Dominique Berger, Laurent Gerbaud
An exploratory study assessing psychological distress of indigents in Burkina Faso: a step forward in understanding mental health needs in West Africa
Émilie Pigeon-Gagné, Ghayga Hassan, Maurice Yaogo, Valéry Ridde
Erratum to: Multifactorial discrimination as a fundamental cause of mental health inequities
Mariam Khan, Misja Ilcisin, Katherine Saxton
“Evolution and financial cost of socioeconomic inequalities in ambulatory care sensitive conditions: an ecological study for Portugal, 2000–2014”
Klára Dimitrovová, Cláudia Costa, Paula Santana, Julian Perelman
Social disparities in body mass index (BMI) trajectories among Chinese adults in 1991–2011
Changchun Fang, Ying Liang
Social inequalities in the utilization of outpatient psychotherapy: analyses of registry data from German statutory health insurance
Jelena Epping, Denise Muschik, Siegfried Geyer
Who and where are the uncounted children? Inequalities in birth certificate coverage among children under five years in 94 countries using nationally representative household surveys
Amiya Bhatia, Leonardo Zanini Ferreira, Aluísio J. D. Barros, Cesar Gomes Victora
Addressing geographic access barriers to emergency care services: a national ecologic study of hospitals in Brazil
Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Núbia Cristina da Silva, Pedro Vasconcelos Amaral, Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa, João Victor Muniz Rocha, Viviane Alvares, Dante Grapiuna de Almeida, Elaine Thumé, Erika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Marta Rovery de Souza, Adriana Lein, Daniel Paulino Lopes, Catherine A. Staton, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Luiz Augusto Facchini
Social conditions of becoming homelessness: qualitative analysis of life stories of homeless peoples
Mzwandile A. Mabhala, Asmait Yohannes, Mariska Griffith
How does decentralisation affect health sector planning and financial management? a case study of early effects of devolution in Kilifi County, Kenya
Benjamin Tsofa, Sassy Molyneux, Lucy Gilson, Catherine Goodman
Examining changes in maternal and child health inequalities in Ethiopia
Alemayehu A. Ambel, Colin Andrews, Anne M. Bakilana, Elizabeth M. Foster, Qaiser Khan, Huihui Wang
Psychosocial factors associated with the mental health of indigenous children living in high income countries: a systematic review
Christian Young, Camilla Hanson, Jonathan C. Craig, Kathleen Clapham, Anna Williamson
Access to medicines and diagnostic tests integral in the management of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases in Uganda: insights from the ACCODAD study
Davis Kibirige, David Atuhe, Leaticia Kampiire, Daniel Ssekikubo Kiggundu, Pamela Donggo, Juliet Nabbaale, Raymond Mbayo Mwebaze, Robert Kalyesubula, William Lumu
A study on the equality and benefit of China’s national health care system
Shaoguo Zhai, Pei Wang, Quanfang Dong, Xing Ren, Jiaoli Cai, Peter C. Coyte
Engaging and staying engaged: a phenomenological study of barriers to equitable access to mental healthcare for people with severe mental disorders in a rural African setting
Maji Hailemariam, Abebaw Fekadu, Martin Prince, Charlotte Hanlon
Smoking and finances: baseline characteristics of low income daily smokers in the FISCALS cohort
Kristy A. Martire, Philip Clare, Ryan J. Courtney, Billie Bonevski, Veronica Boland, Ron Borland, Christopher M. Doran, Michael Farrell, Wayne Hall, Jaimi M. Iredale, Mohammad Siahpush, Richard P. Mattick
Willingness to pay for National Health Insurance Fund among public servants in Juba City, South Sudan: a contingent evaluation
Robert Basaza, Paul Kon Alier, Peter Kirabira, David Ogubi, Richard Lino Loro Lako
Sex workers as peer health advocates: community empowerment and transformative learning through a Canadian pilot program
Cecilia Benoit, Lynne Belle-Isle, Michaela Smith, Rachel Phillips, Leah Shumka, Chris Atchison, Mikael Jansson, Charlotte Loppie, Jackson Flagg
Conditional cash transfers and the creation of equal opportunities of health for children in low and middle-income countries: a literature review
Rebeca Carmo de Souza Cruz, Leides Barroso Azevedo de Moura, Joaquim José Soares Neto
The effect of socioeconomic disadvantage on prescription of guideline-recommended medications for patients with acute coronary syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis
Karice K. Hyun, David Brieger, Mark Woodward, Sarah Richtering, Julie Redfern
The psychological problems and related influential factors of left-behind adolescents (LBA) in Hunan, China: a cross sectional study
Ye Man, Lv Mengmeng, Li Lezhi, Mao Ting, Zhang Jingping
Organisational culture and trust as influences over the implementation of equity-oriented policy in two South African case study hospitals
Ermin Erasmus, Lucy Gilson, Veloshnee Govender, Moremi Nkosi
Gender, childhood and adult socioeconomic inequalities in functional disability among Chinese older adults
Yaqin Zhong, Jian Wang, Stephen Nicholas
Changes in catastrophic health expenditure in post-conflict Sierra Leone: an Oaxaca-blinder decomposition analysis
Ijeoma Edoka, Barbara McPake, Tim Ensor, Rogers Amara, Joseph Edem-Hotah
Who pays for healthcare in Bangladesh? An analysis of progressivity in health systems financing
Azaher Ali Molla, Chunhuei Chi
Enhancing the get healthy information and coaching service for Aboriginal adults: evaluation of the process and impact of the program
E. Quinn, B. J. O’Hara, N. Ahmed, S. Winch, B. McGill, D. Banovic, M. Maxwell, C. Rissel
Devolution and its effects on health workforce and commodities management – early implementation experiences in Kilifi County, Kenya
Benjamin Tsofa, Catherine Goodman, Lucy Gilson, Sassy Molyneux
Prospective associations of psychosocial adversity in childhood with risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood: the MRC National Survey of Health and Development
Emma L. Anderson, Rishi Caleyachetty, Mai Stafford, Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy, Debbie A. Lawlor, Abigail Fraser, Laura D. Howe
Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience
Lucy Gilson, Uta Lehmann, Helen Schneider
Perceived barriers and enablers to participation in a community-tailored physical activity program with Indigenous Australians in a regional and rural setting: a qualitative study
Ashleigh Sushames, Terry Engelberg, Klaus Gebel
Different indicators of socioeconomic status and their relative importance as determinants of health in old age
Alexander Darin-Mattsson, Stefan Fors, Ingemar Kåreholt
Equity in health financing of Guangxi after China’s universal health coverage: evidence based on health expenditure comparison in rural Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region from 2009 to 2013
Xianjing Qin, Hongye Luo, Jun Feng, Yanning Li, Bo Wei, Qiming Feng
Ageing under unequal circumstances: a cross-sectional analysis of the gender and socioeconomic patterning of functional limitations among the Southern European elderly
Manuel Serrano-Alarcón, Julian Perelman
Comparison of patient perceived primary care quality in public clinics, public hospitals and private clinics in rural China
Wenhua Wang, Elizabeth Maitland, Stephen Nicholas, Ekaterina Loban, Jeannie Haggerty
Anxiety and depression in older patients: the role of culture and acculturation
Anna Zisberg
The scope and impact of mobile health clinics in the United States: a literature review
Stephanie W. Y. Yu, Caterina Hill, Mariesa L. Ricks, Jennifer Bennet, Nancy E. Oriol
Factors influencing risky sexual behaviour among Mozambican miners: a socio-epidemiological contribution for HIV prevention framework in Mozambique
Emilia Martins-Fonteyn, Osvaldo Loquiha, Cynthia Baltazar, Subash Thapa, Makini Boothe, Ines Raimundo, Niel Hens, Marc Aerts, Herman Meulemans, Olivier Degomme, Edwin Wouters
Financial burden of healthcare for cancer patients with social medical insurance: a multi-centered study in urban China
Wenhui Mao, Shenglan Tang, Ying Zhu, Zening Xie, Wen Chen
Minimum dietary diversity and associated factors among children aged 6–23 months in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dagmawit Solomon, Zewdie Aderaw, Teketo Kassaw Tegegne
Understanding the effects of socioeconomic status along the breast cancer continuum in Australian women: a systematic review of evidence
Greg Lyle, Gilly A. Hendrie, Delia Hendrie
Women’s education level amplifies the effects of a livelihoods-based intervention on household wealth, child diet, and child growth in rural Nepal
Laurie C. Miller, Neena Joshi, Mahendra Lohani, Beatrice Rogers, Shubh Mahato, Shibani Ghosh, Patrick Webb
Potential barriers in healthcare access of the elderly population influenced by the economic crisis and the troika agreement: a qualitative case study in Lisbon, Portugal
Julia Doetsch, Eva Pilot, Paula Santana, Thomas Krafft
Integrated care reform in urban China: a qualitative study on design, supporting environment and implementation
Yi Qian, Zhiyuan Hou, Wei Wang, Donglan Zhang, Fei Yan
An economy-related equity analysis of health service utilization by women in economically underdeveloped regions of western China
Yuyan Qian, Zhongliang Zhou, Ju’e Yan, Jianmin Gao, Yuping Wang, Xiaowei Yang, Yongjian Xu, Yanli Li
Influence of revised public health standards on health equity action: a qualitative study in Ontario, Canada
Nadha Hassen, Ingrid Tyler, Heather Manson
Trends in healthcare expenditure among people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States: evidence from 10 Years of nationally representative data
Tiarney D. Ritchwood, Kinfe G. Bishu, Leonard E. Egede
Social and environmental determinants of child health in Mongolia across years of rapid economic growth: 2000-2010
Nehal Joshi, Bolormaa Bolorhon, Indermohan Narula, Shihua Zhu, Semira Manaseki-Hollan
‘I do want to ask, but I can’t speak’: a qualitative study of ethnic minority women’s experiences of communicating with primary health care professionals in remote, rural Vietnam
Shannon McKinn, Duong Thuy Linh, Kirsty Foster, Kirsten McCaffery
Preventative health, diversity, and inclusion: a qualitative study of client experience aboard a mobile health clinic in Boston, Massachusetts
Zoe Bouchelle, Yasmin Rawlins, Caterina Hill, Jennifer Bennet, Leonor Xochitl Perez, Nancy Oriol
Redressing or entrenching social and health inequities through policy implementation? Examining personalised budgets through the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme
Gemma Carey, Eleanor Malbon, Daniel Reeders, Anne Kavanagh, Gwynnyth Llewellyn
Health financing and integration of urban and rural residents’ basic medical insurance systems in China
Kun Zhu, Luying Zhang, Shasha Yuan, Xiaojuan Zhang, Zhiruo Zhang
Healthcare access for refugee women with limited literacy: layers of disadvantage
Annette Floyd, Dikaios Sakellariou
“I’m not strong enough; I’m not good enough. I can’t do this, I’m failing”: a qualitative study of low-socioeconomic status smokers’ experiences with accessing cessation support and the role for alternative technology-based support
Veronica C. Boland, Richard P. Mattick, Hayden McRobbie, Mohammad Siahpush, Ryan J. Courtney
Socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality in rural Bangladesh: evidence from seven national surveys spreading over 20 years
Asiful Haidar Chowdhury, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Mohammad Nahid Mia, Abbas Bhuiya
Doing implementation research on health governance: a frontline researcher’s reflexive account of field-level challenges and their management
Gupteswar Patel, Surekha Garimella, Kerry Scott, Shinjini Mondal, Asha George, Kabir Sheikh
The effects of neoliberal policies on access to healthcare for people with disabilities
Dikaios Sakellariou, Elena S. Rotarou
Monitoring SO2emission trends and residents’ perceived health risks from PGM smelting at Selous Metallurgical Complex in Zimbabwe
Patrick Gwimbi
Enablers and barriers to secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic fever among Māori aged 14–21 in New Zealand: a framework method study
Hilary Barker, John G. Oetzel, Nina Scott, Michelle Morley, Polly E. Atatoa Carr, Keri Bolton Oetzel
Slender women and overweight men: gender differences in the educational gradient in body weight in South Korea
Yeonjin Lee
Socioeconomic disadvantage, fetal environment and child development: linked Scottish administrative records based study
Christopher James Playford, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson
Lookism hurts: appearance discrimination and self-rated health in South Korea
Hyemin Lee, Inseo Son, Jaehong Yoon, Seung-Sup Kim
Control under times of uncertainty: the relationship between hospital competition and physician-patient disputes
Qian Yang, Jay Pan
Evaluating medical convenience in ethnic minority areas of Southwest China via road network vulnerability: a case study for Dehong autonomous prefecture
Xiaoyan Wei, Xuejun Liu, Liang Cheng, Lele Sun, Yingying Pan, Wenwen Zong
Urbanization, economic development and health: evidence from China’s labor-force dynamic survey
Hongsheng Chen, Ye Liu, Zhigang Li, Desheng Xue
Setting priorities for knowledge translation of Cochrane reviews for health equity: Evidence for Equity
Peter Tugwell, Jennifer Petkovic, Vivian Welch, Jennifer Vincent, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Rachel Churchill, Don deSavigny, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Tomas Pantoja
Spatially balanced provision of health equipment: a cross-sectional study oriented to the identification of challenges to access promotion
Pedro Vasconcelos Amaral, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa, Adriana Lein, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci
Socioeconomic inequalities of outpatient and inpatient service utilization in China: personal and regional perspectives
Dawei Zhu, Na Guo, Jian Wang, Stephen Nicholas, Li Chen
Equity implications for sanitation from recent health and nutrition evidence
A. A. Cronin, M. E. Gnilo, M. Odagiri, S. Wijesekera
Inequality in early childhood neurodevelopment in six poor rural counties of China: a decomposition analysis
Cuihong Zhang, Chunxia Zhao, Xiangyu Liu, Qianwei Wei, Shusheng Luo, Sufang Guo, Jingxu Zhang, Xiaoli Wang, Robert W. Scherpbier
Factors associated with gender equality among church-going young men in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: a cross-sectional study
Hendrew Lusey, Miguel San Sebastian, Monica Christianson, Kerstin E. Edin
Socioeconomic inequality in abdominal obesity among older people in Purworejo District, Central Java, Indonesia – a decomposition analysis approach
Cahya Utamie Pujilestari, Lennarth Nyström, Margareta Norberg, Lars Weinehall, Mohammad Hakimi, Nawi Ng
Referral patterns, delays, and equity in access to advanced paediatric emergency care in Vietnam
Emily Treleaven, Toan Ngoc Pham, Duy Ngoc Le, Trevor N. Brooks, Hai Thanh Le, J. Colin Partridge
Do beneficiaries’ views matter in healthcare purchasing decisions? Experiences from the Nigerian tax-funded health system and the formal sector social health insurance program of the National Health Insurance Scheme
Ogochukwu Ibe, Ayako Honda, Enyi Etiaba, Nkoli Ezumah, Kara Hanson, Obinna Onwujekwe