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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have higher rates of chronic disease and a lower life expectancy than non-Indigenous Australians. In non-urban areas these health disparities are even larger. The a...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:172
Published on: 18 September 2017
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National community health worker (CHW) programmes are returning to favour as an integral part of primary health care systems, often on the back of pre-existing community based initiatives. There are significan...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:72
Published on: 15 September 2017
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This paper uses the concepts of organisational culture and organisational trust to explore the implementation of equity-oriented policies – the Uniform Patient Fee Schedule (UPFS) and Patients’ Rights Charter ...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:164
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Decision-making on postings and transfers – that is, the geographic deployment of the health workforce – is a key element of health workforce governance. When poorly managed, postings and transfers result in m...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:85
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Decentralisation is argued to promote community participation, accountability, technical efficiency, and equity in the management of resources, and has been a recurring theme in health system reforms for sever...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:169
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within com...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:84
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Governance, which includes decision-making at all levels of the health system, and information have been identified as key, interacting levers of health system strengthening. However there is an extensive lite...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:159
Published on: 15 September 2017
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A common challenge for health sector planning and budgeting has been the misalignment between policies, technical planning and budgetary allocation; and inadequate community involvement in priority setting. He...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:151
Published on: 15 September 2017
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In March 2013, Kenya transitioned from a centralized to a devolved system of governance. Within the health sector, this entailed the transfer of service provision functions to 47 newly formed semi-autonomous c...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:113
Published on: 15 September 2017
Editorial
The unifying theme of the papers in this series is a concern for understanding the everyday practice of governance in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) health systems. Rather than seeing governance as a no...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:171
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Studies assessing associations of childhood psychosocial adversity (e.g. sexual abuse, physical neglect, parental death), as opposed to socioeconomic adversity, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors i...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:170
Published on: 7 September 2017
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The relationship between payments towards healthcare and ability to pay is a measure of financial fairness. Analysis of progressivity is important from an equity perspective as well as for macroeconomic and po...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:167
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Non-communicable chronic diseases in Australia contribute to approximately 85% of the total burden of disease; this proportion is greater for Aboriginal communities. The Get Healthy Service (GHS) is effective ...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:168
Published on: 6 September 2017
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At the end of the eleven-year conflict in Sierra Leone, a wide range of policies were implemented to address both demand- and supply-side constraints within the healthcare system, which had collapsed during th...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:166
Published on: 4 September 2017
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Due to lack of companionship of parents, compared with non left behind children, left behind children (LBC) suffer from more psychological problems compared with children live with their parents. The aim of th...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:163
Published on: 2 September 2017
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Gender difference and life-course socioeconomic inequalities in functional disability may exist among older adults. However, the association is less well understood among Chinese older population. The objectiv...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:165
Published on: 2 September 2017
Review
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been largely used in the world during the past decades, since they are known for enhancing children’s human development and promoting social inclusion for the most depriv...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:161
Published on: 31 August 2017
Systematic review
There are varying data on whether socioeconomic status (SES) affects the treatment in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Our aim was to obtain a reliable estimate of the effect of SES on discharge pr...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:162
Published on: 31 August 2017
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This study assessed willingness to pay for National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) among public servants in Juba City. NHIF is the proposed health insurance scheme for South Sudan and aims at achieving universal...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:158
Published on: 30 August 2017
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Financial stress is a barrier to successful smoking cessation and a key predictor of relapse. Little is known about the financial situation of low-income Australian daily smokers. This study aims to describe a...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:157
Published on: 30 August 2017
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Social marginalization and criminalization create health and safety risks for sex workers and reduce their access to health promotion and prevention services compared to the general population. Community empow...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:160
Published on: 30 August 2017
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In low-and middle-income countries, integration of mental health into primary care is recommended to reduce the treatment gap. In this study we explored barriers to initial and ongoing engagement of people wit...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:156
Published on: 29 August 2017
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This study is designed to evaluate whether the benefit which the residents received from the national health care system is equal in China. The perceived equality and benefit are used to measure the personal s...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:155
Published on: 29 August 2017
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Despite the burgeoning burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in low and middle income countries (LMIC), access to affordable essential medicines and diagnostic tests for DM and CVD...
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:154
Published on: 24 August 2017
Systematic review
Indigenous children living in high income countries have a consistently high prevalence of mental health problems. We aimed to identify psychosocial risk and protective factors for mental health in this setting.
International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:153
Published on: 23 August 2017
