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  1. The substantial gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians has been slow to improve, despite increased dedicated funding. Partnerships between Australian Indigenous and mainstream...

    Authors: Emma Haynes, Kate P Taylor, Angela Durey, Dawn Bessarab and Sandra C Thompson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:75
  2. Health expectancy is a useful tool to monitor health inequalities. The evidence about the recent changes in social inequalities in healthy expectancy is relatively scarce and inconclusive, and most studies hav...

    Authors: Unai Martin and Santiago Esnaola
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:74
  3. Since 2008, Spain has been in the throes of an economic crisis. This recession particularly affects the living conditions of vulnerable populations, and has also led to a reversal in social policies and a redu...

    Authors: Erica Briones-Vozmediano, Andres A Agudelo-Suarez, Isabel Goicolea and Carmen Vives-Cases
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:79
  4. Emerging fields such as environmental health have been challenged, in recent years, to answer the growing methodological calls for a finer integration of sex and gender in health-related research and policy-ma...

    Authors: Geneviève Nadeau and Katherine Lippel
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:78
  5. The province of Ontario hosts nearly a half of Canada´s temporary foreign migrant farm workers (MFWs). Despite the essential role played by MFWs in the economic prosperity of the region, a growing body of rese...

    Authors: Miya Narushima and Ana Lourdes Sanchez
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:65
  6. Equity is an important issue in the healthcare research field. Many studies have focused on the relationship between patient characteristics and outcomes of care. These studies, however, have seldom examined w...

    Authors: Tsung-Hsien Yu, Yu-Chang Hou and Kuo-Piao Chung
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:64
  7. Few studies have described the inequalities in hormonal emergency contraception (HEC) use in developing countries. Thus, the main aim of this manuscript is to study socio-demographic inequalities in HEC use am...

    Authors: Mariano Salazar and Ann ohman
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:61
  8. The inequity of randomising participants to control groups in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is often considered inappropriate, especially for research trials that include vulnerable populations such as I...

    Authors: Karla Canuto, Robyn McDermott and Margaret Cargo
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:77
  9. The prevalence of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) in the Western world has generated considerable discussion regarding best practices in the outpatient treatment of the seriously mentally ill. Although probl...

    Authors: Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:69
  10. Studies have shown important gender differences among drug (including crack) users related to: drug use patterns; health risks and consequences; criminal involvement; and service needs/use. Crack use is preval...

    Authors: Neilane Bertoni, Chantal Burnett, Marcelo Santos Cruz, Tarcisio Andrade, Francisco I Bastos, Erotildes Leal and Benedikt Fischer
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:70
  11. The prevailing inequities in healthcare have been well addressed in previous research, especially screening program participation, but less attention has been paid to how to overcome these inequities. This pap...

    Authors: Erik Olsson, Malena Lau, Svante Lifvergren and Alexander Chakhunashvili
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:62
  12. Most studies on inequalities in health and health-care focus on single indicators of social position, e.g. income or education. Recent research has suggested that multiple social circumstances need to be analy...

    Authors: Kristiina Manderbacka, Martti Arffman, Reijo Sund and Sakari Karvonen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:67
  13. About half a million people in South Africa are deprived of antiretroviral therapy (ART), and there is little systematic knowledge on who they are – e.g. by severity of disease, sex, or socio-economic status (...

    Authors: Noor Tromp, Charlotte Michels, Evelinn Mikkelsen, Jan Hontelez and Rob Baltussen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:60
  14. In 2009, Europe was hit by one of the worst debt crises in history. Although the Eurozone crisis is often depicted as an effect of government mismanagement and corruption, it was a consequence of the 2008 U.S....

    Authors: Roberto De Vogli
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:58
  15. Although suicide rates have increased in some European countries in relation to the current economic crisis and austerity policies, that trend has not been observed in Spain. This study examines the impact of ...

    Authors: Juan Antonio Córdoba-Doña, Miguel San Sebastián, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Jesús Enrique Martínez-Faure and Per E Gustafsson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:55
  16. To investigate the magnitude of barriers in access to health services for chronic patients and the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics that affect them.

    Authors: Ilias-Ioannis Kyriopoulos, Dimitris Zavras, Anastasis Skroumpelos, Katerina Mylona, Kostas Athanasakis and John Kyriopoulos
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:54
  17. To analyze the impacts of pharmaceutical sector policies implemented to contain country spending during the economic recession – a reference price system in Finland and a mix of policies including changes in r...

    Authors: Christine Leopold, Fang Zhang, Aukje K Mantel-Teeuwisse, Sabine Vogler, Silvia Valkova, Dennis Ross-Degnan and Anita K Wagner
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:53
  18. The social insurance system in Sweden underwent extensive change between 2006 and 2010, with the overall aim of making people enter the labour market. At the same time, economic recession hit Sweden. Previous ...

    Authors: Sandra Blomqvist, Bo Burström and Mona C Backhans
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:51
  19. Health-income inequality has been the focus of many studies. The relationship between economic conditions and health has also been widely studied. However, not much is known about how changes in aggregate econ...

    Authors: Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir and Dagný Ósk Ragnarsdóttir
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:50
  20. The National Health Insurance Act, 2003 (Act 650) established the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana with the aim of increasing access to health care and improving the quality of basic health car...

    Authors: Ama P Fenny, Kristian S Hansen, Ulrika Enemark and Felix A Asante
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:63
  21. Arabic-speaking migrants have constituted a growing population in recent years. This entails major challenges to ensure good communication in the healthcare encounter in order to provide individual and holisti...

    Authors: Emina Hadziabdic and Katarina Hjelm
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:49
  22. Globally, health facility delivery is encouraged as a single most important strategy in preventing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. However, access to facility-based delivery care remains low in ...

    Authors: Amon Exavery, Almamy Malick Kanté, Mustafa Njozi, Kassimu Tani, Henry V Doctor, Ahmed Hingora and James F Phillips
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:48
  23. Regular reporting of health inequalities is essential to monitoring progress of efforts to reduce health inequalities. While reporting of population health became increasingly common, reporting of a subpopulat...

    Authors: Yukiko Asada, Alyce Whipp, David Kindig, Beverly Billard and Barbara Rudolph
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:47
  24. Access to health services is a determinant of population health and is known to be reduced for a variety of specialist services for Indigenous populations in Canada. With arthritis being the most common chroni...

    Authors: Wilfreda E Thurston, Stephanie Coupal, C Allyson Jones, Lynden FJ Crowshoe, Deborah A Marshall, Joanne Homik and Cheryl Barnabe
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:46
  25. The health of Indigenous Australians is worse than that of other Australians. Most of the determinants of health are preventable and the poor health outcomes are inequitable. The Australian Government recently...

    Authors: Michael E Otim, Margaret Kelaher, Ian P Anderson and Chris M Doran
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:45
  26. In many countries including Canada, excess consumption of dietary sodium is common, and this has adverse implications for population health. Socio-economic inequities in sodium consumption seem likely, but res...

    Authors: Lindsay McLaren, Shayla Heidinger, Daniel J Dutton, Valerie Tarasuk and Norman R Campbell
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:44
  27. Quality of care could be influenced by individual socio-economic status (SES) and by residential area deprivation. The objective is to synthesize the current evidence regarding inequalities in health care for ...

    Authors: Olga Grintsova, Werner Maier and Andreas Mielck
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:43
  28. Reducing inequalities in health care is one of the main challenges in all countries. In Iran as in other oil-exporting upper middle income countries, we expected to witness fewer inequalities especially in the...

    Authors: Hossein Zare, Antonio J Trujillo, Julia Driessen, Mojtaba Ghasemi and Gisselle Gallego
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:42
  29. Social determinants of health have not been intensively studied in Russia, even though the health divide has been clearly demonstrated by an increased mortality rate among those with low education. A comparati...

    Authors: Tatiana Dubikaytis, Tommi Härkänen, Elena Regushevskaya, Elina Hemminki, Elina Haavio-Mannila, Made Laanpere, Olga Kuznetsova and Seppo Koskinen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:39
  30. The Chinese New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was launched in 2003 aiming at protecting the poor in rural areas from high health expenditures and improving access to health services. The income related ine...

    Authors: Shasha Yuan, Clas Rehnberg, Xiaojie Sun, Xiaoyun Liu and Qingyue Meng
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:38
  31. The alarming progression of the aging trend in China attracts much attention in the country and abroad. In 2003, the Chinese central government launched the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) to resolve the...

    Authors: Ying Liang and Peiyi Lu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:37
  32. Life course socioeconomic inequalities in heart disease, stroke and all-cause mortality are well studied in Sweden. However, few studies have sought to explain the mechanism for such associations mainly due to...

    Authors: Mojgan Padyab and Margareta Norberg
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:35
  33. Developing countries face challenges in financing healthcare; often the poor do not receive the most basic services. The past decade has seen a sharp increase in the number of voucher programs, which target ou...

    Authors: Corinne Grainger, Anna Gorter, Jerry Okal and Ben Bellows
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:33

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  34. Major efforts have been made to improve the health care system in Hunan province, China. The aims of this study were to assess whether and to what extent these efforts have impacted on gender and regional disp...

    Authors: Mengshi Chen, Abuaku Benjamin Kwaku, Youfang Chen, Xin Huang, Hongzhuan Tan and Shi Wu Wen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:32
  35. In most African countries, indigents treated at public health centres are supposed to be exempted from user fees. In Africa, most of the available knowledge has to do with targeting processes in rural areas, a...

    Authors: Valéry Ridde, Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane B Soura, Fiacre Bazié and Kadidiatou Kadio
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:31
  36. Since 1990, Pakistan has faced an unprecedented rate of urbanization, thereby resulting in the uncontrolled proliferation of slums (Katchi Abadis) in all large cities. These areas lack the basic municipal service...

    Authors: Aneeqa Rehman, Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Katrina A Ronis
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:30
  37. As quality in diabetes care includes patient centred support for self-management, investigating patients’ experiences upon diagnosis can help improve access to this element of care among diverse populations. T...

    Authors: Emma Wilkinson, Gurch Randhawa and Maninder Singh
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:29
  38. In a significant geographical shift in the distribution of HIV infection, the US South - comprising 17 states - now has the greatest number of adults and adolescents with HIV (PLHIV) in the nation. More than 6...

    Authors: Courtenay Sprague and Sara E Simon
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:28
  39. The Government of Kenya is making plans to implement a social health insurance program by transforming the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) into a universal health coverage program. The objective of thi...

    Authors: James K Kimani, Remare Ettarh, Charlotte Warren and Ben Bellows
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:27
  40. Mental health inequalities are an increasingly important global problem. This study examined the association between mental health status and certain socioeconomic indicators (personal social position and the ...

    Authors: Helena Jeriček Klanšček, Janina Žiberna, Aleš Korošec, Joca Zurc and Tit Albreht
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:26
  41. Many countries striving to achieve universal health insurance coverage have done so by means of multiple health insurance funds covering different population groups. However, existence of multiple health insur...

    Authors: Eunice Nahyuha Chomi, Phares GM Mujinja, Ulrika Enemark, Kristian Hansen and Angwara Dennis Kiwara
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:25
  42. Access to adequate health services that is of acceptable quality is important in the move towards universal health coverage. However, previous studies have revealed inequities in health care utilisation in the...

    Authors: Jane Phiri and John E Ataguba
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:24
  43. In order to alleviate the problem of “Kan Bing Nan, Kan Bing Gui” (medical treatment is difficult to access and expensive) and improve the equity of health service utilisation for urban residents in China, the...

    Authors: Zhongliang Zhou, Liang Zhu, Zhiying Zhou, Zhengya Li, Jianmin Gao and Gang Chen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:23

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