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Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:92
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Health care trajectories and barriers to treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease without health insurance in Mexico: a mixed methods approach
Mexico has the sixth-highest premature death rate from chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the world. From 1990 to 2017, the age-standardized CKD mortality rate jumped from 28.7 to 58.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, ma...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:90 -
Is the allocation of medical and health resources effective? Characteristic facts from regional heterogeneity in China
Over the last decade, the expenditure on public medical and health has increased greatly in China, however, problems as low efficiency and unfairness still exist. How to accurately describe the effectiveness o...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:89 -
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
Comprehensive assessment of stunting disparity in Sierra-Leone has not been done so far. We aimed to document extent and over time dynamics of inequality in stunting in Sierra-Leone using approaches that facil...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:88 -
An urgent call to address the nutritional status of women and children in Nepal during COVID-19 crises
Due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown in Nepal, women and children face a greater risk of malnutrition and eventually leading to mortality and morbidity. To harness the progress made so far in improving the n...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:87 -
Research priorities in healthcare of persons experiencing homelessness: outcomes of a national multi-disciplinary stakeholder discussion in the United Kingdom
Persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) face up to twelve times higher mortality rates compared to the general population. There is a need to develop, evaluate and implement novel interventions to minimise suc...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:86 -
Self-rated health inequalities in the intersection of gender, social class and regional development in Spain: exploring contributions of material and psychosocial factors
Inequalities in health across social class, gender and regional context in Spain are well-known; however, there is a lack of research examining how these dimensions of inequality interact. This study explores ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:85 -
Assessing health outcomes in the aftermath of the great recession: a comparison of Spain and the Netherlands
Across time and space, financial security has been shown to impact health outcomes, with the acute loss of financial security being particularly detrimental. We compare financial security’s association with he...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:84 -
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
The association between contextual factors and health inequalities is well documented, also in Brazil. However, questions about how contextual factors actually affect health and well-being persist. The aim of ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:83 -
Inequalities in access to water and soap matter for the COVID-19 response in sub-Saharan Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly since the first case notification of the WHO in December 2019. Lacking an effective treatment, countries have implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions including soc...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:82 -
COVID-19 and informal settlements: an urgent call to rethink urban governance
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:81 -
Salutogenic model of health to identify turning points and coping styles for eating practices in type 2 diabetes mellitus
It is important for people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) to eat healthily. However, implementing dietary advice in everyday life is difficult, because eating is not a distinguishable action, but a chain...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:80 -
Living or deceased-donor kidney transplant: the role of psycho-socioeconomic factors and outcomes associated with each type of transplant
Kidney transplant improves patients’ survival and quality of life. Worldwide, concern about the equality of access to the renal transplant wait-list is increasing. In Iran, patients have the choice to be place...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:79 -
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
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) remains a critical public health goal that continues to elude many countries of the global south. As countries strive for its attainment, it is important to track progress in va...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:78 -
Is Nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states?
Northeastern Nigeria has over the decade suffered from the Boko Haram insurgency and is still in the process of recovery from the complex humanitarian crisis that has displaced and subjected millions of vulner...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:77 -
Why social justice matters: a context for suicide prevention efforts
Suicide is among the 10 leading causes of death in the US and has the potential to suddenly change many lives. It often occurs when people are disproportionately affected by societal conditions, including ineq...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:76 -
Role of social and other determinants of health in the effect of a multicomponent integrated care strategy on type 2 diabetes mellitus
Although important advances in treatment strategies have been developed in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), large gaps exist in achieving glycemic control and preventing complications, particularly in low-and ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:75 -
How community sport programs may improve the health of vulnerable population groups: a program theory
Groups at risk of exclusion from society appear to have a lower health status and more health-related problems. Prevention efforts in these groups are not always successful, and new ways have to be sought by w...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:74 -
Mobile health clinic model in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and opportunities for policy changes and innovation
Mobile Clinics represent an untapped resource for our healthcare system. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated its limitations. Mobile health clinic programs in the US already play important, albeit under-appr...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:73 -
COVID-19: a plea to protect the older population
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:72 -
Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations
Every country has vulnerable populations that require special attention from policymakers in their response to a pandemic. This is because those populations may have specific characteristics, culture and behav...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:71 -
Costing of actions to safeguard vulnerable Mexican households with young children from the consequences of COVID-19 social distancing measures
COVID-19 has imposed unprecedented challenges to society. As the pandemic evolves, the social distancing measures that have been globally enforced, while essential, are having undesirable socioeconomic side ef...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:70 -
Financial risk of seeking maternal and neonatal healthcare in southern Ethiopia: a cohort study of rural households
Ethiopian households’ out-of-pocket healthcare payments constitute one-third of the national healthcare budget and are higher than the global and low-income countries average, and even the global target. Such ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:69 -
“Pairing assistance”: the effective way to solve the breakdown of health services system caused by COVID-19 pandemic
The most terrifying thing about pandemic could be the large number of patients running against the health service system, which causes a serious shortage of health resources, especially medical personnel. Plot...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:68 -
Prioritizing vulnerable populations and women on the frontlines: COVID-19 in humanitarian contexts
The COVID-19 outbreak has been declared a global pandemic and cases are being reported among displaced populations that are particularly vulnerable to infection. Humanitarian workers on the frontlines of the r...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:66 -
Complete vaccination service utilization inequalities among children aged 12–23 months in Ethiopia: a multivariate decomposition analyses
Although World Health Organization works to make vaccination service available to everyone everywhere by 2030, majority of the world’s children have been unvaccinated and unprotected from vaccine-preventable d...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:65 -
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
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are disproportionately affected by Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) with a prevalence of 6.08% in the Northern Territory (NT) and liver cancer rates 6 times higher th...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:64 -
The challenges facing indigenous communities in Latin America as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) pandemic struck Latin America in late February and is now beginning to spread across the rural indigenous communities in the region, home to 42 million people. Eighty ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:63 -
Exploring perceptions, barriers, and enablers for delivery of primary ear and hearing care by community health workers: a photovoice study in Mukono District, Uganda
Hearing loss is a prevalent but neglected disease, especially in low- or middle-income countries. The role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to deliver primary ear and hearing care has been explored in severa...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:62 -
Ensuring adequate health financing to prevent and control the COVID-19 in Iran
On February 19th 2020, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) has announced the first 2 cases of SARS-CoV-2, a novel emerging coronavirus which causes an infection termed as COVID-19, in Qom...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:61 -
Socioeconomic inequalities in hospitalizations for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature, 1990–2018
Hospitalizations for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions are an important indicator of health system equity and performance. Chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions refer to chronic diseases that...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:60 -
The potential of mobile health clinics in chronic disease prevention and health promotion in universal healthcare systems. An on-field experiment
Mobile health clinics (MHCs) are recognized to facilitate access to healthcare services, especially in disadvantaged populations. Notwithstanding that in Europe a wide-ranging background in mobile screening un...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:59 -
Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients
Migrant health has become an essential part of public health. According to the World Health Organization, many health systems in Europe have not yet adapted adequately to the needs of asylum-seekers, which mig...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:58 -
Magnitude and determinants of multimorbidity and health care utilization among patients attending public versus private primary care: a cross-sectional study from Odisha, India
Multimorbidity in primary care is a challenge not only for developing countries but also for low and medium income countries (LMIC). Health services in LMIC countries are being provided by both public and priv...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:57 -
Utilization profile of emergency department by irregular migrants and hospitalization rates: lessons from a large urban medical center in Tel Aviv, Israel
Irregular migrants (IMM) are excluded from the National health insurance in most developed countries and may use the emergency department (ED) as a source for medical care.
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:56 -
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
Reduction of health gaps between ethno-cultural groups has become a major concern for health services, with a strong emphasis on eliminating social and cultural barriers and improving accessibility for diverse...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:55 -
Ethnic inequalities in child stunting and feeding practices: results from surveys in thirteen countries from Latin America
Although the prevalence of child stunting is falling in Latin America, socioeconomic inequalities persist. However, there is limited evidence on ethnic disparities. We aimed to describe ethnic inequalities of ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:53 -
The politics and practice of initiating a public health postgraduate programme in three universities in sub-Saharan Africa: the challenges of alignment and coherence
In-country postgraduate training programme in low and middle income countries are widely considered to strengthen institutional and national capacity. There exists dearth of research about how new training ini...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:52 -
Community engagement interventions for communicable disease control in low- and lower- middle-income countries: evidence from a review of systematic reviews
Community engagement (CE) interventions include a range of approaches to involve communities in the improvement of their health and wellbeing. Working with communities defined by location or some other shared ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:51 -
Comprehensive primary health care and non-communicable diseases management: a case study of El Salvador
One of today’s greatest challenges in public health worldwide - and especially its key management from Primary Health Care (PHC) - is the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In El Salvador, sin...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:50 -
Can the reform of integrating health insurance reduce inequity in catastrophic health expenditure? Evidence from China
China’s fragmentation of social health insurance schemes has become a key obstacle that hampers equal access to health care and financial protection. This study aims to explores if the policy intervention Urba...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:49 -
Incarcerated Aboriginal women’s experiences of accessing healthcare and the limitations of the ‘equal treatment’ principle
Colonization continues in Australia, sustained through institutional and systemic racism. Targeted discrimination and intergenerational trauma have undermined the health and wellbeing of Australia’s Aboriginal...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:48 -
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
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people often face individual- and system-level barriers in health care. However, LGB people’s experiences of health care in non-European and non-American settings have been scar...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:46 -
‘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
Public policy approaches to funding paediatric medicines in developed public health systems remain understudied. Current approaches to HTA present a variety of conceptual, methodological and practical problems...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:45 -
Inequalities in reproductive health care use in five West-African countries: A decomposition analysis of the wealth-based gaps
Family planning and maternal care services have become increasingly available in West Africa but the level of non-use remains high. This unfavorable outcome may be partly due to the unaffordability of reproduc...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:44 -
Cancer screening among racial/ethnic groups in health centers
Underserved and low-income population are placed at a disadvantage for receiving necessary cancer screenings. This study aims to measure the rates of receiving three types of cancer screening services, Pap tes...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:43 -
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
Resource-constrained countries (RCCs) have the highest burden of cervical cancer (CC) in the world. Nonetheless, although CC can be prevented through screening for precancerous lesions, only a small proportion...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:42 -
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:41 -
Mobile health clinics in the United States
Mobile health clinics serve an important role in the health care system, providing care to some of the most vulnerable populations. Mobile Health Map is the only comprehensive database of mobile clinics in the...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:40 -
Reproductive health and the politics of abortion
This editorial provides an overview of a thematic series that brings attention to the persistently deficient and unequal access to sexual and reproductive health services for young women in sub-Saharan Africa....
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2020 19:39
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