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  1. Persons with disabilities (PWD) are one of the most marginalized groups in Western societies. These inequalities are manifested through various disadvantages in the psychosocial, cultural, and economic domains...

    Authors: Maayan Agmon, Amalia Sa’ar and Tal Araten-Bergman
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:147
  2. An important health issue in urban areas is how changes arising from the regeneration of city-areas affect social determinants of health and equity. This paper examines the impacts attributable to a new fish m...

    Authors: Elena Serrano, Isabel Larrañaga, Maite Morteruel, María Dolores Baixas de Ros, Mikel Basterrechea, Dolores Martinez, Elena Aldasoro and Amaia Bacigalupe
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:145
  3. The present study set to describe the socioeconomic inequality associated with oral hygiene behavior among Iranian pediatric population.

    Authors: Saeid Safiri, Roya Kelishadi, Ramin Heshmat, Ali Rahimi, Shirin Djalalinia, Anoosheh Ghasemian, Ali Sheidaei, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Gelayol Ardalan, Morteza Mansourian, Hamid Asayesh, Mahdi Sepidarkish and Mostafa Qorbani
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:143
  4. The recent economic crisis has been a major shock not only to the economic sector, but also to the rest of society. Our main objective in this paper is to show the impact of the economic crisis on convergence,...

    Authors: Laia Maynou and Marc Saez
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:135

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:178

  5. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are overrepresented in transport-related morbidity and mortality. Low rates of licensure in Aboriginal communities and households have been identified as a contribu...

    Authors: Patricia Cullen, Kathleen Clapham, Kate Hunter, Rebekah Treacy and Rebecca Ivers
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:134
  6. Laboratory services are essential for diagnosis and management of patients, and for disease control, and should form an integral part of primary health services capable of contributing to Universal Health Cove...

    Authors: Benvindo Toni Maria Tadeu and Diederike Geelhoed
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:133
  7. Integrative strategy of health services delivery has been proven to be effective in economically developed countries, where the healthcare systems have enough qualified primary care providers. However rural Ch...

    Authors: Yudong Miao, Liang Zhang, Vibeke Sparring, Sandeep Sandeep, Wenxi Tang, Xiaowei Sun, Da Feng and Ting Ye
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:132
  8. As the core of the county-level Maternal and Child Health Hospitals (MCHH) in rural areas of China, the service efficiency affects the fairness and availability of healthcare services. This study aims to ident...

    Authors: Xuan Wang, Hongye Luo, Xianjin Qin, Jun Feng, Hongda Gao and Qiming Feng
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:131
  9. Effectively addressing the social determinants of health and health equity are critical yet still-emerging areas of public health practice. This is significant for contemporary practice as the egregious impact...

    Authors: Charmaine McPherson, Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Claire Betker, Dianne Oickle and Nancy Peroff-Johnston
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:129
  10. The WONCA Special Interest Group on Health Equity was established in 2014 to provide a focus of support, education, research and policy on issues relating to promotion of health equity in primary care settings...

    Authors: Ula Jan Chetty, Patrick O’Donnell, David Blane and Sara Willems
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:128
  11. Parental migration is most an important factor affecting children’s behaviors. Few studies have addressed the association between parental migration and children’s smoking behavior in China. This study aims to...

    Authors: Tingting Yang, Cuicui Li, Chengchao Zhou, Shan Jiang, Jie Chu, Alexis Medina and Scott Rozelle
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:127
  12. The evaluation of geographical healthcare accessibility in residential areas provides crucial information to public policy. Traditional methods - such as Physician Population Ratios (PPR) or shortest travel ti...

    Authors: Fei Gao, Wahida Kihal, Nolwenn Le Meur, Marc Souris and Séverine Deguen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:125
  13. Across the Africa region and beyond, the last decade has seen many countries introducing policies aimed at reducing financial barriers to obstetric care. This article provides evidence of the cost and effects ...

    Authors: S. Witter, C. Boukhalfa, J. A. Cresswell, Z. Daou, V. Filippi, R. Ganaba, S. Goufodji, I. L. Lange, B. Marchal and F. Richard
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:123
  14. Eastern Greek islands have been direct passageways of (mainly Syrian) refugees to the European continent over the past year. However, basic medical care has been insufficient. Despite calls for reform, the Gre...

    Authors: Antonis A. Kousoulis, Myrsini Ioakeim-Ioannidou and Konstantinos P. Economopoulos
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:122
  15. The provision of mental healthcare through integration into primary care is expected to improve access to care, but not all population groups may benefit equally. The aim of this study was to inform delivery o...

    Authors: Maji Hailemariam, Abebaw Fekadu, Medhin Selamu, Girmay Medhin, Martin Prince and Charlotte Hanlon
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:121
  16. Poor maternal and infant health indicators are mostly concentrated among low income households in Pakistan and health care expenditures – especially on medical emergencies – are the most common income shocks e...

    Authors: Sadia Mariam Malik and Nabila Ashraf
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:120
  17. Although persons with disabilities need access to comprehensive and consistent healthcare services, a significant number of the poor with disabilities do not receive Medical-Aid due to the conditions of eligib...

    Authors: Jae Woo Choi, Jae-Yong Shin, Kyung-Hee Cho, Jin-Young Nam, Ju-Young Kim and Sang Gyu Lee
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:119
  18. Greece has been severely affected by the 2008 global economic crisis and its health system was, and still is, among the national institutions most shaped by its effects.

    Authors: Angeliki Kerasidou, Patricia Kingori and Helena Legido-Quigley
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:118
  19. Obstetric referrals, otherwise known as maternal referrals constitute an eminent component of emergency care, and key to ensuring safe delivery and reducing maternal and child mortalities. The efficiency of Ob...

    Authors: Gladys Buruwaa Nuamah, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Kofi Mensah Akohene, Daniel Boateng, Dominic Dobin and Kwasi Addai-Donkor
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:117
  20. Ghana since 2004, begun implementation of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to minimize financial barriers to health care at point of use of service. Usually health insurance is expected to offer finan...

    Authors: Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Judith Westeneng, Ernst Spaan, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Irene Akua Agyepong and Rob Baltussen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:116
  21. Like most Central European countries Slovakia has experienced a period of socioeconomic changes and at the same time a decline in the mortality rate. Therefore, the aim is to study socioeconomic factors that c...

    Authors: Katarina Rosicova, Lucia Bosakova, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Martin Rosic, Marek Andrejkovic, Ivan Žežula, Johan W. Groothoff and Jitse P. van Dijk
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:115
  22. The Haiti earthquake in 2010 resulted in 1.5 million internally displaced people (IDP), yet little is known about the impact of displacement on health. In this study, we estimate the impact of displacement on ...

    Authors: Bradley Chen, Timothy J. Halliday and Victoria Y. Fan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:114
  23. China has become the world‘s second largest healthcare market based on a recent report by the World Health Organization. Eventhough China achieved universal health insurance coverage in 2011, representing the ...

    Authors: Zhou Lulin, Henry Asante Antwi, Wenxin Wang, Ethel Yiranbon, Emmanuel Opoku Marfo and Patrick Acheampong
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:113
  24. Ethnic discrimination is increasingly common nowadays in South Korea with the influx of migrants. Despite the growing body of evidences suggests that ethnic discrimination negatively impacts health, only few r...

    Authors: Yugyun Kim, Inseo Son, Dainn Wie, Carles Muntaner, Hyunwoo Kim and Seung-Sup Kim
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:112
  25. Mental health inequality along the economic strata is prominent in South Korea, particularly as intergenerational material transfer is becoming increasingly important in gaining economic status. Therefore, thi...

    Authors: Woorim Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Yeong Jun Ju and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:111
  26. The Affordable Care Act was modeled on the Massachusetts Health Reform of 2006, which reduced the number of uninsured largely through a Medicaid expansion and the provision of publicly subsidized insurance obt...

    Authors: Rachel Nardin, Leah Zallman, Assaad Sayah and Danny McCormick
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:110
  27. The aims of this study were to examine indicators of socioeconomic deprivation among secondary school students and to determine associations between household poverty, neighbourhood deprivation and health indi...

    Authors: Simon Denny, Sonia Lewycka, Jennifer Utter, Theresa Fleming, Roshini Peiris-John, Janie Sheridan, Fiona Rossen, Donna Wynd, Tasileta Teevale, Pat Bullen and Terryann Clark
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:109
  28. The influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan presents an immense burden to the Jordanian health system. Changing lifestyles and aging populations are shifting the global disease burden towards increased non-infec...

    Authors: Shannon Doocy, Emily Lyles, Laila Akhu-Zaheya, Ann Burton and Gilbert Burnham
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:108
  29. Previous studies suggested that the racial differences in U.S. suicide rates are decreasing, particularly for African Americans, but the cause behind the temporal variations has yet to be determined. This stud...

    Authors: Zhenkun Wang, Chuanhua Yu, Jinyao Wang, Junzhe Bao, Xudong Gao and Huiyun Xiang
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:107
  30. Physical inactivity is associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality and entails a substantial economic burden for health systems. Also, the analysis of inequality in lifestyles for young population...

    Authors: Eduardo Gonzalo-Almorox and Rosa M. Urbanos-Garrido
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:106
  31. The social health insurance coverage is relatively high in Mongolia; however, escalation of out-of-pocket payments for health care, which reached 41 % of the total health expenditure in 2011, is a policy conce...

    Authors: Javkhlanbayar Dorjdagva, Enkhjargal Batbaatar, Mikael Svensson, Bayarsaikhan Dorjsuren and Jussi Kauhanen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:105
  32. Jharkhand, a state with substantial tribal population in Eastern India has very high rate of undernutrition. The study tries to understand the social determinants of inequities in under-nutrition (weight-for-a...

    Authors: Keya Chatterjee, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Alok Kumar Kundu, Dhananjay Shankar, Rajkumar Gope, Nirmala Nair and Prasanta K Tripathy
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:104
  33. Over the past decades, both health inequalities and income inequalities have been increasing in many European countries, but it is unknown whether and how these trends are related. We test the hypothesis that ...

    Authors: Rasmus Hoffmann, Yannan Hu, Rianne de Gelder, Gwenn Menvielle, Matthias Bopp and Johan P. Mackenbach
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:103
  34. Most of the research investigating the effect of social context on individual health outcomes has interpreted context in terms of the residential environment. In these studies, individuals are nested within th...

    Authors: Masoud Vaezghasemi, Nawi Ng, Malin Eriksson and S. V. Subramanian
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:102
  35. The association between income inequality and societal performance has been intensely debated in recent decades. This paper reports how unmet need for medical care has changed in Europe during The Great Recess...

    Authors: Jon Ivar Elstad
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:101
  36. In Tak province, Thailand migrants and refugees from Myanmar navigate a pluralistic healthcare system to seek Tuberculosis (TB) care from a variety of government and non-governmental providers. This multi-meth...

    Authors: Naomi Tschirhart, Francois Nosten and Angel M. Foster
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:100
  37. In light of the growing emphasis on individualization in healthcare, it is vital to take the diversity of inhabitants and users into consideration. Thus, identifying shared perceptions among group members may ...

    Authors: Erik Masao Eriksson, Kristin Eliasson, Andreas Hellström, Sylvia Määttä and Lisa Vaughn
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:99
  38. The causes of health inequalities are complex. For the reduction of health inequalities, intersectoral collaboration between the public health sector and both social policy sectors (e.g. youth affairs, educati...

    Authors: Ilse Storm, Frank den Hertog, Hans van Oers and Albertine J. Schuit
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:97
  39. China has since the beginning of this millennium engaged in substantial Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. This paper adds evidence on how equity in level of health service utilization changed after UHC ...

    Authors: Hedda Flatø and Huafeng Zhang
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:96
  40. In Manitoba, Canada, school-based clinics providing sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents have been implemented to address high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and pregnancies.

    Authors: Souradet Y. Shaw, Colleen Metge, Carole Taylor, Mariette Chartier, Catherine Charette, Lisa Lix, Rob Santos, Joykrishna Sarkar, Nathan C. Nickel, Elaine Burland, Dan Chateau, Alan Katz, Marni Brownell and Patricia J. Martens
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:95
  41. Older people make up an increasing proportion of the population in low- and middle-income countries. This brings a number of challenges, as their health needs are greater than, and different from, those of you...

    Authors: Bart Jacobs, Richard de Groot and Adélio Fernandes Antunes
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:94
  42. Malnutrition is a huge problem in Burundi. In order to improve the provision of services at hospital, health centre and community levels, the Ministry of Health is piloting the introduction of malnutrition pre...

    Authors: Manassé Nimpagaritse, Catherine Korachais, Dominique Roberfroid, Patrick Kolsteren, Moulay Driss Zine Eddine El Idrissi and Bruno Meessen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:93
  43. This study examines socioeconomic inequality in children’s health and factors that moderate this inequality. Socioeconomic measures include household wealth, maternal education and urban/rural area of residenc...

    Authors: Tim B. Heaton, Benjamin Crookston, Hayley Pierce and Acheampong Yaw Amoateng
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:92
  44. Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the rate of uninsured in the United States has declined significantly. However, not all legal residents have benefited equally. As part of a community-base...

    Authors: Pearl Anna McElfish, Rachel S. Purvis, Gregory G. Maskarinec, Williamina Ioanna Bing, Christopher J. Jacob, Mandy Ritok-Lakien, Jellesen Rubon-Chutaro, Sharlynn Lang, Sammie Mamis and Sheldon Riklon
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:91
  45. Indigenous Australians have poorer cancer outcomes in terms of incidence mortality and survival compared with non-Indigenous Australians. The factors contributing to this disparity are complex. Identifying and...

    Authors: B. Thewes, E. Davis, A. Girgis, P. C. Valery, K. Giam, A. Hocking, J. Jackson, V. Yf He, D. Yip and G. Garvey
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:90
  46. Measures of small-area deprivation may be valuable in geographically targeting limited resources to prevent, diagnose, and effectively manage chronic conditions in vulnerable populations. We developed a census...

    Authors: Ana Lòpez-De Fede, John E. Stewart, James W. Hardin and Kathy Mayfield-Smith
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:89

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