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Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:47
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Health equity in Somalia? An evaluation of the progress made from 2006 to 2019 in reducing inequities in maternal and newborn health
Every human being has the right to affordable, high-quality health services. However, mothers and children in wealthier households worldwide have better access to healthcare and lower mortality rates than thos...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:46 -
Intersectional discrimination and mental health inequalities: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences in Scotland
In 2021, Scotland became the first UK country to launch a Women’s Health Plan. This policy signals increasing commitment to broader ambitions surrounding gender equality in health. Research shows a connection ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:45 -
Gender health gap pre- and post-joint arthroplasty: identifying affected patient-reported health domains
As patient-reported outcomes (PROs) gain prominence in hip and knee arthroplasty (HA and KA), studies indicate PRO variations between genders. Research on the specific health domains particularly impacted is l...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:44 -
Rural‒urban disparities in household catastrophic health expenditure in Bangladesh: a multivariate decomposition analysis
Rural‒urban disparity in catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) is a well-documented challenge in low- and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, limiting financial protection and hindering the achi...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:43 -
Hauora Māori – Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care
For more than a century, Māori have experienced poorer health than non-Māori. In 2019 an independent Tribunal found the Government had breached Te Tiriti o Waitangi by “failing to design and administer the cur...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:42 -
Aligning the planning, development, and implementation of complex interventions to local contexts with an equity focus: application of the PRISM/RE-AIM Framework
For the fields of implementation science and health equity, understanding and being responsive to local contexts is of utmost importance to better inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of heal...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:41 -
Bridge the gap caused by public health crises: medical humanization and communication skills build a psychological bond that satisfies patients
Patient satisfaction is an important outcome domain of patient-centered care. Medical humanization follows the patient-centered principle and provides a more holistic view to treat patients. The COVID-19 pande...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:40 -
Perceived discrimination in health care in Germany– results of a population survey
It has consistently been shown that perceived discrimination is associated with adverse health outcomes. Despite this uncontested relevance, there is a lack of research on the experiences of discrimination in ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:39 -
Migrant well-being and undocumented status in South Korea: a cross-sectional assessment of physical, psychological, social well-being, and health behaviors
A high burden of physical, mental, and occupational health problems among migrant workers has been well-documented, but data on undocumented migrant workers are limited and their well-being has rarely been com...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:38 -
The role of mesolevel characteristics of the health care system and socioeconomic factors on health care use – results of a scoping review
Besides macrolevel characteristics of a health care system, mesolevel access characteristics can exert influence on socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare use. These reflect access to healthcare, which is sh...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:37 -
Mapping socio-geographical disparities in the occurrence of teenage maternity in Colombia using multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)
The prevalence of teenage pregnancy in Colombia is higher than the worldwide average. The identification of socio-geographical disparities might help to prioritize public health interventions.
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:36 -
Low quality of maternal and child nutritional care at the primary care in Mexico: an urgent call to action for policymakers and stakeholders
Maternal and child malnutrition represents a public health problem in Mexico Primary care (PC) is responsible for introducing women and children under five to the health system, detecting diseases on time, and...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:35 -
Rapid systematic review on risks and outcomes of sepsis: the influence of risk factors associated with health inequalities
Sepsis is a serious and life-threatening condition caused by a dysregulated immune response to an infection. Recent guidance issued in the UK gave recommendations around recognition and antibiotic treatment of...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:34 -
COVID-19 death risk predictors in Brazil using survival tree analysis: a retrospective cohort from 2020 to 2022
This study analyses the survival of hospitalized patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) due to COVID-19 and identifies the risk groups for death due to COVID-19 from the identification of poten...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:33 -
Incorporating an intersectional gender approach to improve access to maternal and child health screening services
In the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has promoted initiatives that aim at the elimination of mother-to-child transmitted diseases for over two decades. Although Guatemala has assumed th...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:32 -
Water insecurity among seasonal agriculture workers: perspectives from Spanish professionals
Migrant seasonal agricultural workers face conditions of material vulnerability such as inadequate housing difficulties prevent access to running water supplies. The purpose of this study is to explore the per...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:31 -
COVID-19 induced shocks and its implications for human capital development
COVID-19 has delivered an enormous shock to the global economy, triggering the deepest recession in eight decades, almost three times as deep as the 2009 global recession. Of all the nations in Africa, Nigeria...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:30 -
Diversity in randomized clinical trials for peripheral artery disease: a systematic review
Significant race and sex disparities exist in the prevalence, diagnosis, and outcomes of peripheral artery disease (PAD). However, clinical trials evaluating treatments for PAD often lack representative patien...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:29 -
Factors of success, barriers, and the role of frontline workers in Indigenous maternal-child health programs: a scoping review
Despite considerable investment in maternal-child programs in Canada, there has been little positive impact on the health of Indigenous mothers and their children. The reasons for this are unclear and there is...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:28 -
Covid-19 vaccination: a mixed methods analysis of health system resilience in Latin America
This paper discusses the stages of health system resilience (HSR) and the factors underlying differences in HSR during the covid-19 pandemic, especially the vaccination challenge. We studied the relationship b...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:27 -
Approaches for enhancing patient-reported experience measurement with ethnically diverse communities: a rapid evidence synthesis
Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are used to drive and evaluate unit and organisational-level healthcare improvement, but also at a population level, these measures can be key indicators of healthc...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:26 -
The optimal co-insurance rate for outpatient drug expenses of Iranian health insured based on the data mining method
A more equal allocation of healthcare funds for patients who must pay high costs of care ensures the welfare of society. This study aimed to estimate the optimal co-insurance for outpatient drug costs for heal...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:25 -
Correction: Measuring health equity in the ASEAN region: conceptual framework and assessment of data availability
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:24 -
Repurposing phone booths into COVID-19 sampling stations: medical operator experiences
This study investigated the repurposing of phone booths into COVID-19 sampling stations and assessed medical operator experiences in twelve healthcare facilities in Thailand. Amidst the pandemic, these facilit...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:23 -
Urban–rural disparities in the association of nitrogen dioxide exposure with cardiovascular disease risk in China: effect size and economic burden
Together with rapid urbanization, ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure has become a growing health threat. However, little is known about the urban–rural disparities in the health implications of short-term NO
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:22 -
Distributive justice and equity in resource allocation: a temporal analysis of hospitalization costs in indigenous populations in Brazil
In Brazil, a country of continental dimensions, the health needs of each region have an impact. In this context and the name of the principle of equity, the SUS organizes actions especially aimed at social gro...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:21 -
Telehealth program for symptomatic COVID-19 patients in Mindanao, Philippines: a whole-of-system, pragmatic interventional study on patient monitoring from isolation facilities to community reintegration
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting individuals and society's physical and mental health. Despite the lack of any definite and effective therapeutic regimen, public health measures such as quarantine and isolat...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:20 -
Community-based mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative study with international experts
Mental health services are scarce in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and designing and implementing effective interventions can be difficult. The aim of this international study was to explore the ke...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:19 -
Prevalence of helmintic infections in Brazilian Maxakali indigenous: a repeated cross-sectional design
The prevalence of intestinal parasites is known to be high among Amerindian populations; further, there are serious problems in the healthcare of these populations in Brazil. The Maxakali, located in the north...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:18 -
Are institutional deliveries equitable in the southern states of India? A benefit incidence analysis
Despite a commendable rise in the number of women seeking delivery care at public healt...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:17 -
Disparities and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine policies in three representative European countries
The aim of this study was to examine the Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) vaccine policies disparities and effectiveness in Germany, Denmark and Bulgaria, with a view to providing lessons for global vaccinat...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:16 -
Adapting an equity-focused implementation process framework with a focus on ethnic health inequities in the Aotearoa New Zealand context
Health intervention implementation in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), as in many countries globally, usually varies by ethnicity. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa) and Pacific peoples are less likely to re...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:15 -
What our children lost and gained at the time of school closure during the Covid-19 pandemic: a study on psychological distress, behavioural concerns and protective factors of resilience among preschool children in Kerala, India
The pandemic has put at risk the social and emotional development of children on account of the paucity of arenas for social interaction. This study from Kerala, India was conducted to assess the resilience fa...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:14 -
The 15-year national trends of urinary cancers incidence among Iranian men and women; 2005–2020
Urinary tract cancers including bladder, kidney, ureter, and pelvis are a common malignancy worldwide with high mortality ratio. Aimed to investigate the prevalence of these cancers, we conducted this study.
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:13 -
Racial and ethnic disparities in the association between financial hardship and self-reported weight change during the first year of the pandemic in the U.S.
Studies have shown that financial hardship can impact weight change; however, it is unclear what the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has had on weight change in U.S. adults, or whether racial-ethnic g...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:12 -
“We’re the very bottom, so it’s going to be hard for you to ‘catch any fish’ around here…” understanding vulnerable Greenlanders’ perspectives on cancer and barriers to screening in Denmark– A qualitative study
Cancer is a major global health concern. Unfortunately, Indigenous populations such as Greenlanders living in Denmark, face significant disparities in cancer risk, incidence, diagnosis, care quality, and outco...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:11 -
Socioeconomic inequalities in the use of medical consultation services in Peru, 2019
Socioeconomic inequalities in the population influence access to health services and constitute a challenge for health systems, especially in low- and middle-income countries. In Peru, an increase in the use o...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:10 -
A district-level geospatial analysis of anaemia prevalence among rural men in India, 2019-21
Despite its considerable impact on health and productivity, anemia among men has received limited attention. In a country as diverse as India, characterized by extensive geographic variations, there is a press...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:9 -
Employment conditions and mental health of overseas female migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong: a parallel mediation analysis
Female migrant domestic workers (MDW), approximately 8.5 million globally, often live in their employer’s home under vulnerable conditions. In Hong Kong, MDWs currently comprise 5% of the population. This stud...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:8 -
Whoever wants better healthcare simply pays more: citizens' perception about voluntary private health insurance in Colombia
To explore the perceptions that Colombians have about voluntary private health insurance plans (VPHI) in the health system to identify the tensions that exist between the public and private systems.
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:7 -
Access to health knowledge for health equality: a multi-phase review focused on disability-health
The existing evidence base indicates increased interest in knowledge translation (KT), or, the dissemination of research to ensure uptake and impact. Given this definition, this study aimed to review existing ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:6 -
Group-based trajectory models of integrated vaccine delivery and equity in low- and middle-income countries
Integrated vaccine delivery – the linkage of routine vaccination with provision of other essential health services – is a hallmark of robust primary care systems that has been linked to equitable improvements ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:5 -
Social accountability and sexual and reproductive health—implications for research and practice
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 21(Suppl 1):205 -
Socioeconomic inequalities in uptake of HIV testing during antenatal care: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Measuring socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare usage represents a critical step towards promoting health equity, in alignment with the principles of universal health coverage and the United Nations’ Sustai...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:4 -
Reflective questioning to guide socially just global health reform: a narrative review and expert elicitation
Recent research has highlighted the impacts of colonialism and racism in global health, yet few studies have presented concrete steps toward addressing the problems. We conducted a narrative review to identify...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:3 -
Social inequalities in early childhood language development during the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive study with data from three consecutive school entry surveys in Germany
Social health inequalities are still of great public health importance in modern societies. The COVID-19 pandemic may have affected social inequalities in people's health due to containment measures. As these ...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:2 -
Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project
Persons with albinism face challenges to their wellbeing, safety, and security, ranging from vision impairment and skin cancer to stigma and discrimination. In some regions, they also face human rights atrocit...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:1 -
The stories about racism and health: the development of a framework for racism narratives in medical literature using a computational grounded theory approach
The scientific study of racism as a root cause of health inequities has been hampered by the policies and practices of medical journals. Monitoring the discourse around racism and health inequities (i.e., raci...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2023 22:265 -
Exploring the varied manifestations of structural violence in the lives of children on the autism spectrum and their families: a qualitative longitudinal study in Kurdistan, Iran
There are many dimensions regarding autism that are closely connected to social structures, policies, and power dynamics, silently impacting the well-being of individuals within the autism spectrum. This resea...
Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2023 22:263
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