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  1. The primary health care (PHC) sector is increasingly relevant as a site for population health interventions, particularly in relation to marginalized groups, where the greatest gains in health status can be ac...

    Authors: Annette J. Browne, Colleen Varcoe, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and C. Nadine Wathen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:152
  2. In 2003, the Quebec government made important changes in its primary healthcare (PHC) system. This reform included the creation of new models of PHC, Family Medicine Groups (e.g. multidisciplinary health teams...

    Authors: Marie-Jo Ouimet, Raynald Pineault, Alexandre Prud’homme, Sylvie Provost, Michel Fournier and Jean-Frédéric Levesque
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:139
  3. Throughout the world, indigenous peoples have advocated for the right to retain their cultural beliefs and traditional medicine practices. In 2007, the more than 370 million people representing 5000 distinct g...

    Authors: Heather Carrie, Tim K. Mackey and Sloane N. Laird
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:129

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:20

  4. This study examined the impact of an Integrated Care Delivery intervention on health care seeking and outcomes for chronically-ill patients in Henan province, China.

    Authors: Leiyu Shi, Marty Makinen, De-Chih Lee, Ruth Kidane, Nathan Blanchet, Hailun Liang, Jinghua Li, Magnus Lindelow, Hong Wang, Shuangbao Xie and Jian Wu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:98
  5. Reform of the health care system in urban areas of China has prompted concerns about the utilization of Community Health Centers (CHC). This study examined which of the dominant primary care delivery models, i...

    Authors: Leiyu Shi, De-Chih Lee, Hailun Liang, Luwen Zhang, Marty Makinen, Nathan Blanchet, Ruth Kidane, Magnus Lindelow, Hong Wang and Shaolong Wu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:90
  6. Frequent emergency department (ED) users meet several of the criteria of vulnerability, but this needs to be further examined taking into consideration all vulnerability’s different dimensions. This study aime...

    Authors: Patrick Bodenmann, Stéphanie Baggio, Katia Iglesias, Fabrice Althaus, Venetia-Sofia Velonaki, Stephanie Stucki, Corine Ansermet, Sophie Paroz, Lionel Trueb, Olivier Hugli, Judith L. Griffin and Jean-Bernard Daeppen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:146
  7. The experience of childhood poverty has a long-lasting, adverse impact on physical health outcomes in adulthood. We examined the mediating effects of adult socioeconomic status (SES) and social support on the ...

    Authors: Maki Umeda, Takashi Oshio and Mayu Fujii
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:145
  8. Discrimination in health services for reasons of nationality or ethnicity is not a rare occurrence. This work aims to qualitatively analyse the perceived discrimination among Maghrebi community in Tarragona (S...

    Authors: Lourdes Rubio-Rico, Alba Roca-Biosca and Inmaculada de Molina-Fernández
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:144
  9. Many low income countries have policies to exempt the poor from user charges in public facilities. Reliably identifying the poor is a challenge when implementing such policies. In Tanzania, a scorecard system ...

    Authors: August Kuwawenaruwa, Jitihada Baraka, Kate Ramsey, Fatuma Manzi, Ben Bellows and Josephine Borghi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:143
  10. Little is known about the interaction between socio-economic status and ‘protected characteristics’ in Scotland. This study aimed to examine whether differences in mortality were moderated by interactions with...

    Authors: A. D Millard, G. Raab, J. Lewsey, P. Eaglesham, P. Craig, K. Ralston and G. McCartney
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:142
  11. Even in high-income countries some population groups depend on food banks to support their food intake. We aimed to explore and compare health and nutritional status of food bank clients (Tafel e.V.) in differ...

    Authors: Julia Depa, Carolin Hilzendegen, Peter Tinnemann and Nanette Stroebele-Benschop
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:141
  12. Education and health constitute two interlinked assets that are highly important to individuals. In Iceland, prevalence of dropout from secondary education poses a considerable problem. This 8-year prospective...

    Authors: Erla Svansdottir, Sigurbjorn A. Arngrimsson, Thorarinn Sveinsson and Erlingur Johannsson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:140
  13. There is a global trend towards the use of ad hoc participation processes that seek to engage grassroots stakeholders in decisions related to municipal infrastructure, land use and services. We present the res...

    Authors: Amy S. Katz, Rebecca M. Cheff and Patricia O’Campo
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:138
  14. According to the EU-MIDIS report on discrimination, Roma are the most discriminated against group in Europe. Research suggests that experiencing discrimination may itself be detrimental to health. The aim of t...

    Authors: Peter Kolarcik, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Sijmen A. Reijneveld and Jitse P. Van Dijk
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:137
  15. Aboriginal people in British Columbia (BC) have higher injury incidence than the general population. This report describes variability in visits to primary care due to injury, among injury categories, time per...

    Authors: Andrew Jin, M. Anne George, Mariana Brussoni, Christopher E. Lalonde and Rod McCormick
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:136
  16. Primary open angle glaucoma is a chronic, progressive eye disease that is the leading cause of blindness among African Americans. Glaucoma progresses more rapidly and appears about 10 years earlier in African ...

    Authors: Cynthia Owsley, Lindsay A. Rhodes, Gerald McGwin Jr., Stephen T. Mennemeyer, Mary Bregantini, Nita Patel, Demond M. Wiley, Frank LaRussa, Dan Box, Jinan Saaddine, John E. Crews and Christopher A. Girkin
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:135
  17. Globally, the population of elderly persons is increasing as well as the prevalence of chronic diseases. This change is causing increased healthcare costs to health care systems threatening to push many househ...

    Authors: Jonathan Mwangi, Asli Kulane and Le Van Hoi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:134
  18. Understanding health inequity in India is a challenge, given the complexity that characterise the lives of its residents. Interpreting constructive action to address health inequity in the country is rare, tho...

    Authors: Devaki Nambiar, Arundati Muralidharan, Samir Garg, Nayreen Daruwalla and Prathibha Ganesan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:133
  19. Health inequalities reflect multidimensional inequality (income, education, and other indicators of socioeconomic position) and vary across countries and welfare regimes. To which extent there is intergenerati...

    Authors: Louis Chauvel and Anja K. Leist
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:132
  20. Inspired by the ‘Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT)’ we explore social inequalities in preventable versus relatively less-preventable illnesses in Spain. The focus is on the education-health gradient, as education...

    Authors: A.R. Zapata Moya, V. Buffel, C.J. Navarro Yáñez and P. Bracke
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:131
  21. The incidence of hip fractures in older adults in India is likely to increase dramatically in the coming decades as a result of an aging population and increasing life expectancy. Currently, more than 600,000 ...

    Authors: Abha Tewari, Kirti Sundar Sahu, Lalit Yadav, Sanghamitra Pati, Srinivas Nallala, Premilla Webster, Robyn Norton and Santosh Rath
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:130
  22. Although government has implemented medical-aid policy that provides assistance to the poor with almost free medical services, there are low-income people who do not receive necessary medical services in Korea...

    Authors: Jae Woo Choi, Eun-Cheol Park, Sung-Youn Chun, Kyu-Tae Han, Euna Han and Tae Hyun Kim
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:128
  23. With the growing development of minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of morbid obesity, laparoscopic bariatric surgery (LBS) is increasingly performed. This study aimed to assess the association bet...

    Authors: Chun-Che Huang, Yu-Tung Huang and Chong-Chi Chiu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:127
  24. Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance for...

    Authors: Sameera Hussain, Ana Lorena Ruano, Atiya Rahman, Sabina Faiz Rashid and Peter S. Hill
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:126
  25. Despite the large body of research on racial/ethnic disparities in health, there are limited data on health disparities in Caribbean-origin populations. This scoping review aimed to analyze and synthesize publ...

    Authors: Aurelian Bidulescu, Damian K. Francis, Trevor S. Ferguson, Nadia R. Bennett, Anselm J. M. Hennis, Rainford Wilks, Eon N. Harris, Marlene MacLeish and Louis W. Sullivan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:125
  26. Equitable access to essential medicines is a major challenge for policy-makers world-wide, including Central and Eastern European countries. Member States of the European Union situated in Central and Eastern ...

    Authors: Sabine Vogler, August Österle and Susanne Mayer
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:124
  27. The socioeconomic and ethnic composition of urban neighbourhoods may affect mortality, but evidence on Central European cities is lacking. The aim of this study was to assess the associations between socioecon...

    Authors: Katarina Rosicova, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Roy E. Stewart, Martin Rosic, Johan W. Groothoff and Jitse P. van Dijk
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:123
  28. Cancer is the second leading cause of death among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their survival once diagnosed with cancer is lower compared to that of other Australians. This highlights the ...

    Authors: Beatriz Cuesta-Briand, Dawn Bessarab, Shaouli Shahid and Sandra C. Thompson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:122
  29. Given the increasing number of people in Spain struggling to pay housing-related costs during the economic recession, it is important to assess the health status of these communities as compared to the general...

    Authors: Ana M. Novoa, Julia Ward, Davide Malmusi, Fernando Díaz, Mercè Darnell, Carme Trilla, Jordi Bosch and Carme Borrell
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:120
  30. The huge number of rural elders and the deepening health problems (e.g. growing threats of infectious diseases and chronic diseases etc.) place enormous pressure on old age health security in rural China. This...

    Authors: Baozhen Dai
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:119
  31. People’s decision to enroll in a health insurance scheme is determined by socio-cultural and socio-economic factors. On request of the National health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in Ghana, our study explores th...

    Authors: Christine J. Fenenga, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Alice Ogink, Daniel K. Arhinful, Wouter Poortinga and Inge Hutter
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:118
  32. Prior cross-national studies of socioeconomic inequalities in obesity have only compared summary indices of inequality but not specific, policy-relevant dimensions of inequality: (a) shape of the socioeconomic...

    Authors: Arjumand Siddiqi, Rashida Brown, Quynh C. Nguyen, Rachel Loopstra and Ichiro Kawachi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:116
  33. Access to medicines is one of the major challenges in health policy. The high out-of-pocket expenditures on medicines in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region represents important barrier to affordable...

    Authors: Isabel Cristina Martins Emmerick, Vera Lucia Luiza, Luiz Antonio Bastos Camacho, Catherine Vialle-Valentin and Dennis Ross-Degnan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:115
  34. Under the Massachusetts health reform, low income residents (those with incomes below 150 % of the Federal Poverty Level [FPL]) were eligible for Medicaid and health insurance exchange-based plans with minimal...

    Authors: Leah Zallman, Rachel Nardin, Assaad Sayah and Danny McCormick
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:113
  35. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the 2006 Massachusetts (MA) health reform law, on which the ACA was based, aimed to improve the affordability of care largely by expanding publicly sponsored insurances. Both ...

    Authors: Leah Zallman, Rachel Nardin, Monica Malowney, Assaad Sayah and Danny McCormick
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:112
  36. Australians in rural and remote areas experience poorer health status compared with many metropolitan residents, due partly to inequitable access to primary health care (PHC) services. Building on recent resea...

    Authors: Susan L. Thomas, John Wakerman and John S. Humphreys
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:111
  37. Access to ART and health services is guaranteed under universal coverage to improve life expectancy and quality of life for HIV patients. However, it remains unknown whether patients of different socioeconomic...

    Authors: Manuel García-Goñi, Roberto Nuño-Solinís, Juan F. Orueta and Francesco Paolucci
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:110
  38. Our research group advanced a health insurance theory to explain Canada’s cancer care advantages over America. The late Barbara Starfield theorized that Canada’s greater primary care-orientation also plays a c...

    Authors: Kevin M. Gorey, Sindu M. Kanjeekal, Frances C. Wright, Caroline Hamm, Isaac N. Luginaah, Emma Bartfay, Guangyong Zou, Eric J. Holowaty and Nancy L. Richter
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:109
  39. In many countries doctors are seeing an increasing amount of immigrant patients. The communication and relationship between such groups often needs to be improved, with the crucial factor potentially being the...

    Authors: Amanda Whittal and Ellen Rosenberg
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:108
  40. If an intervention is not well spatially targeted, appropriate levels of uptake, efficacy, long-term compliance and improved health outcomes are unlikely to be attained. Effective health interventions should s...

    Authors: Sarah Hanson and Andy Jones
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:106
  41. Predicting the household’s ability to cope with adult illness and death can be complicated in low-income countries with high HIV prevalence and multiple other stressors and shocks. This study explored the link...

    Authors: Jovita Amurwon, Flora Hajdu and Janet Seeley
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:105
  42. In Australia, there is little empirical research of the racial identity of Indigenous children and youth as the majority of the current literature focuses on adults. Furthermore, there are no instruments devel...

    Authors: CS Kickett-Tucker, D. Christensen, D. Lawrence, SR Zubrick, DJ Johnson and F. Stanley
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:103
  43. The end of 2015 will see the creation of the sustainable development goals – the new global framework for development. The process of creating universally relevant goals has involved community consultation thr...

    Authors: Claire Ibell, Simon A. Sheridan, Peter S. Hill, John Tasserei, Marie-France Maleb and Jean-Jacques Rory
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:102
  44. Articulating future risk of diabetes at the population level can inform prevention strategies. While previous studies have characterized diabetes burden according to socioeconomic status (SES), none have studi...

    Authors: Laura A. Rivera, Michael Lebenbaum and Laura C. Rosella
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:101
  45. Numerous epidemiological studies have compared outcomes between laparoscopic appendectomies (LA) and open appendectomies (OA); however, few studies have assessed the efficacy of LA specifically in a low-income...

    Authors: Kai-Biao Lin, K. Robert Lai, Nan-Ping Yang, Ke-Shou Wu, Hsien-Wei Ting, Ren-Hao Pan and Chien-Lung Chan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:100
  46. On 20 March 2015, Professor Johan Mackenbach of the Erasmus University Medical Centre was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the Catholic University (Université Catholique) of Louvain, Belgium, for his outstand...

    Authors: Vincent Lorant and William D’Hoore
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:97

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