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  1. Access to Liberia’s health system is reliant on out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures which may prevent people from seeking care or result in catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). CHE and impoverishment due...

    Authors: Jacopo Gabani and Lorna Guinness

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:193

    Content type: Research

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  2. Although migrant health is a topic of interest across Europe and although health care services in Germany consider migrant health issues, people with a migrant background often experience difficulties regardin...

    Authors: Marja Leonhardt, Katja Aschenbrenner, Martin E. Kreis and Johannes C. Lauscher

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:192

    Content type: Research

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  3. Effective patient engagement has been associated with high quality health care. There is a dearth of evidence around effective engagement with consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds; specifically in relati...

    Authors: Reema Harrison, Merrilyn Walton, Ashfaq Chauhan, Elizabeth Manias, Upma Chitkara, Monika Latanik and Desiree Leone

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:191

    Content type: Research

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  4. Medicaid, the state-level public insurance in the United States, has widely differing criteria treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) such as stage of liver fibrosis, documented sobriety, and specialist consult...

    Authors: Brigg Reilley, Matt Miller, Matt Hudson, Rick Haverkate and Jessica Leston

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:190

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  5. To determine relevant public health actions and to guide intervention priorities, it is of great importance to assess the relative contribution of incidence and lethality to social inequalities in cancer morta...

    Authors: Joséphine Bryere, Laure Tron, Gwenn Menvielle and Guy Launoy

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:189

    Content type: Research

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  6. The decline in global and between-country health inequality is a major challenge to overcome. However, few studies have systematically investigated the relationship between inequality of health stock and natio...

    Authors: Isma Addi Jumbri, Shinya Ikeda, Masayuki Jimichi, Chika Saka and Shunsuke Managi

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:188

    Content type: Research

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  7. Horizontal equity in access to public general practitioner (GP) services by socioeconomic group has been addressed econometrically by testing the statement “equal probability of using public GP services for eq...

    Authors: M. A. Negrín, J. Pinilla and I. Abásolo

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:187

    Content type: Research

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  8. China poverty reduction policy (PRP) addresses two important elements: the targeted poverty reduction (TPA) project since 2015 in line with social assistance policy as national policy; and reducing inequality ...

    Authors: Qi Zou, Xiaoqun He, Zhong Li, Wanchun Xu and Liang Zhang

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:186

    Content type: Research

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  9. The objective of this research is to analyse trends in horizontal inequity in access to public health services by immigration condition in Spain throughout the period 2006–2017. We focus on “economic immigrant...

    Authors: Jaime Pinilla, Miguel A. Negrín and Ignacio Abásolo

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:185

    Content type: Research

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  10. Healthy eating behaviour is an essential determinant of overall health. This behaviour is generally poor among people at risk of experiencing food insecurity, which may be caused by many factors including perc...

    Authors: Laura A. van der Velde, Linde A. Schuilenburg, Jyothi K. Thrivikraman, Mattijs E. Numans and Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:184

    Content type: Research

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  11. We studied the impact of Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) intervention to support Community Health Representatives (CHR) on the clinical outcomes of patients living with diabetes in the Navajo...

    Authors: Letizia Trevisi, John E. Orav, Sidney Atwood, Christian Brown, Cameron Curley, Caroline King, Olivia Muskett, Hannah Sehn, Katrina A. Nelson, Mae-Gilene Begay and Sonya S. Shin

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:183

    Content type: Research

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  12. Women experience disparities in health care delivery and outcomes. Patient-centred care for women (PCCW) is needed. This study examined how PCC has been conceptualized and operationalized in women’s health res...

    Authors: Jessica U. Ramlakhan, Angel M. Foster, Sherry L. Grace, Courtney R. Green, Donna E. Stewart and Anna R. Gagliardi

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:182

    Content type: Review

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  13. In Rwanda, community health workers (CHWs) are an integral part of the health system. For maternal health, CHWs are involved in linking members of the communities in which they live to the formal health care s...

    Authors: Germaine Tuyisenge, Valorie A. Crooks and Nicole S. Berry

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:181

    Content type: Research

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  14. Indigenous persons living in Latin America suffer from a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes compared to their non-indigenous counterparts. This difference has been attributed to a wide range of factors. Futu...

    Authors: Edwin Nieblas-Bedolla, Kent D. W. Bream, Allison Rollins and Frances K. Barg

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:180

    Content type: Research

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  15. The public health workforce (PHW) is a key component of a country’s public health system. Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in 2003, the scale of PHW in China has been continuously...

    Authors: Weiqin Cai, Chengyue Li, Mei Sun and Mo Hao

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:179

    Content type: Research

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  16. Exposure to natural outdoor environments (NOE) has been shown to be beneficial to older adults’ health and functioning, yet this assertion has rarely been tested in China. We investigated the relationships bet...

    Authors: Baishi Huang, Ye Liu, Zhiqiang Feng, Jamie R. Pearce, Ruoyu Wang, Yina Zhang and Jie Chen

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:178

    Content type: Research

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  17. It is important to quantify inequality, explain the contribution of underlying social determinants and to provide evidence to guide health policy. The aim of the study is to explain the income-related inequali...

    Authors: Olfa Saidi, Nada Zoghlami, Kathleen E. Bennett, Paola Andrea Mosquera, Dhafer Malouche, Simon Capewell, Habiba Ben Romdhane and Martin O’Flaherty

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:177

    Content type: Research

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  18. We present to the scientific community the pioneering of Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, the Brazilian Census Bureau) in partnership with the Ministry of Health, the largest fie...

    Authors: Erno Harzheim, Luiz Felipe Pinto, Otavio Pereira D’Avila and Lisiane Hauser

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:176

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  19. Hong Kong has gained a good reputation for its quality public health care services. However, there is a growing recognition that social stigma is a potential obstacle when female sex workers (FSWs) access heal...

    Authors: Haixia Ma and Alice Yuen Loke

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:175

    Content type: Research

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  20. Eliminating indigenous and ethnic health inequities requires addressing the determinants of health inequities which includes institutionalised racism, and ensuring a health care system that delivers appropriat...

    Authors: Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, David Tipene-Leach, Curtis Walker, Belinda Loring, Sarah-Jane Paine and Papaarangi Reid

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:174

    Content type: Research

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  21. Maternal and child health (MCH) care utilization often vary with geographic location. We analyzed the geographic distribution and determinants of utilization of four or more antenatal care visits, health facil...

    Authors: Atkure Defar, Yemisrach B. Okwaraji, Zemene Tigabu, Lars Åke Persson and Kassahun Alemu

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:173

    Content type: Research

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  22. Ensuring equal access to preventive care has always been given a priority in health system throughout world. This study aimed to decompose inequality in utilization of preventive care services into its contrib...

    Authors: Yongjian Xu, Tao Zhang and Duolao Wang

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:172

    Content type: Research

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  23. A small proportion of the population consumes the majority of health care resources. High-cost health care users are a heterogeneous group. We aim to segment a provincial population into relevant homogenous su...

    Authors: Maureen Anderson, Crawford W. Revie, Henrik Stryhn, Cordell Neudorf, Yvonne Rosehart, Wenbin Li, Meriç Osman, David L. Buckeridge, Laura C. Rosella and Walter P. Wodchis

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:171

    Content type: Research

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  24. Personalisation is a growing international policy paradigm that aims to create both improved outcomes for individuals, and reduce fiscal pressures on government, by giving greater choice and control to citizen...

    Authors: Gemma Carey, Brad Crammond and Eleanor Malbon

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:170

    Content type: Research

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  25. This narrative review aimed to identify and categorize the barriers and facilitators to the provision of brief intervention and behavioral change programs that target several risk behaviors among the Indigenou...

    Authors: Mojan Fazelipour and Frances Cunningham

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:169

    Content type: Review

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  26. The purpose of this review was to examine the literature for themes of underlying social contributors to inequity in maternal health outcomes and experiences in the high resource setting of Aotearoa New Zealan...

    Authors: Pauline Dawson, Chrys Jaye, Robin Gauld and Jean Hay-Smith

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:168

    Content type: Review

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  27. In South Africa, persistence of the HIV epidemic and associated gender and racial disparities is a major concern after more than 20 years of democratic dispensation and efforts to create a more healthy and equ...

    Authors: M. Mabaso, L. Makola, I. Naidoo, L. L. Mlangeni, S. Jooste and L. Simbayi

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:167

    Content type: Research

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  28. The fragmentation of health insurance schemes in China has undermined equity in access to health care. To achieve universal health coverage by 2020, the Chinese government has decided to consolidate three basi...

    Authors: Chaofan Li, Chengxiang Tang and Haipeng Wang

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:166

    Content type: Research

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  29. In order to further identify the needed interventions for continued poverty reduction in our study area Cuatro Santos, northern Nicaragua, we aimed to elucidate what predicts poverty, measured by the Unsatisfi...

    Authors: C. Källestål, E. Blandón Zelaya, R. Peña, W. Peréz, M. Contreras, L. Å. Persson, O. Sysoev and K. Ekholm Selling

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:165

    Content type: Research

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  30. Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis with a rising prevalence around the globe. While educational inequalities in incidence and prevalence of gout have been reported, no previous study investigated e...

    Authors: Ali Kiadaliri, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Aleksandra Turkiewicz and Martin Englund

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:164

    Content type: Research

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  31. Persistent inequities in health experiences and outcomes are observed for Māori compared to non-Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. We conceptualised factors associated with Māori consumer experiences of health pro...

    Authors: Suetonia C. Palmer, Harriet Gray, Tania Huria, Cameron Lacey, Lutz Beckert and Suzanne G. Pitama

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:163

    Content type: Research

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  32. Inappropriate use of Caesarean Section (CS) delivery is partly to blame for Ghana’s high maternal mortality rate. However, previous research offered mixed findings about factors associated with CS use. The goa...

    Authors: Emmanuel Dankwah, Shelley Kirychuk, Wu Zeng, Cindy Feng and Marwa Farag

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:162

    Content type: Research

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  33. Socioeconomic inequalities in dental care utilization in Iran are rarely documented. This study aimed to provide insight into socioeconomic inequalities in dental care utilization and its main contributing fac...

    Authors: Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Seyed Fahim Irandoost and Yahya Salimi

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:161

    Content type: Research

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  34. The motivation of health workers is a key concern of policy makers, practitioners and researchers. Public Service Motivation (PSM), defined as the altruistic desire to serve the common interest, to serve other...

    Authors: Zakaria Belrhiti, Wim Van Damme, Abdelmounim Belalia and Bruno Marchal

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:160

    Content type: Research

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  35. The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) worldwide. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM), and GBM living with HIV in particular, are disproport...

    Authors: Daniel Grace, Mark Gaspar, Ron Rosenes, Ramandip Grewal, Ann N. Burchell, Troy Grennan and Irving E. Salit

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:159

    Content type: Research

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  36. There has been an increasing number of refugee women globally; yet, there is little recent data describing the health profile of refugee women by region of origin in the United States. It is important to monit...

    Authors: May Sudhinaraset, Nuny Cabanting and Marisa Ramos

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:158

    Content type: Research

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  37. A higher risk of common mental health disorders has been found for first-generation migrants in high income countries, but few studies have examined the use of mental health care. This study aimed to identify ...

    Authors: Tania Bosqui, Ari Väänänen, Andre Buscariolli, Aki Koskinen, Dermot O’Reilly, Auli Airila and Anne Kouvonen

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:157

    Content type: Research

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  38. With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a renewed commitment of tackling the varied challenges of undernutrition, particularly stunting (SDG 2.2). Health equity is also a priori...

    Authors: Maria del Pilar Flores-Quispe, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Maria Fátima S. Maia, Leonardo Z. Ferreira and Fernando C. Wehrmeister

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:156

    Content type: Research

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  39. Various factors influence health service utilization at the community level. Research on the barriers to uptake of local health services is essential to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity. The A...

    Authors: Christopher M. Westgard, Ally Rogers, Giselle Bello and Natalia Rivadeneyra

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:155

    Content type: Research

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  40. In Africa, a majority of women bring their infant to health services for immunization, but few are checked in the postpartum (PP) period. The Missed opportunities for maternal and infant health (MOMI) EU-funded p...

    Authors: Danielle Yugbaré Belemsaga, Anne Goujon, Olivier Degomme, Tchichihouenichidah Nassa, Els Duysburgh, Seni Kouanda and Marleen Temmerman

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:154

    Content type: Research

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  41. Social inequalities in obesity have been observed not only by gender but also between ethnic groups. Evidence on combined dimensions of inequality in health, and specifically including indigenous populations, ...

    Authors: Yercin Mamani Ortiz, Per E. Gustafsson, Miguel San Sebastián Chasco, Ada Ximena Armaza Céspedes, Jenny Marcela Luizaga López, Daniel Elving Illanes Velarde and Paola A. Mosquera Méndez

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:153

    Content type: Research

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  42. Health equity is a multidimensional concept that has been internationally considered as an essential element for health system development. However, our understanding about the root causes of health equity is ...

    Authors: Qiang Yao, Xin Li, Fei Luo, Lianping Yang, Chaojie Liu and Ju Sun

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:152

    Content type: Research

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  43. Patients belonging to marginalised (medically under-served) groups experience problems with medicines (i.e. non-adherence, side effects) and poorer health outcomes largely due to inequitable access to healthca...

    Authors: Asam Latif, Justin Waring, Kristian Pollock, Josie Solomon, Nargis Gulzar, Shahida Choudhary and Claire Anderson

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:151

    Content type: Research

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  44. Type 1 diabetes is a complex chronic condition which requires lifelong treatment with insulin. Health outcomes are dependent on ability to self-manage the condition. Socioeconomic inequalities have been demons...

    Authors: Anne Scott, Alicia O’Cathain and Elizabeth Goyder

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:150

    Content type: Research

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  45. At the turn of the century, when the Millennium Development Goals placed maternal mortality reduction high on the global agenda, Ethiopia relaxed its restrictive abortion law to expand grounds on which a woman...

    Authors: Getnet Tadele, Haldis Haukanes, Astrid Blystad and Karen Marie Moland

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:138

    Content type: Research

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  46. Unsafe abortion continues to be a major hazard for maternal health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where abortion remains highly controversial and access to safe abortion services is unequally distributed. Although nat...

    Authors: Richard Sambaiga, Haldis Haukanes, Karen Marie Moland and Astrid Blystad

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:135

    Content type: Research

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  47. Unsafe abortion is a major contributor to the continued high global maternal mortality and morbidity rates. Legal abortion frameworks and access to sexuality education and contraception have been pointed out a...

    Authors: Astrid Blystad, Haldis Haukanes, Getnet Tadele, Marte E. S. Haaland, Richard Sambaiga, Joseph Mumba Zulu and Karen Marie Moland

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:126

    Content type: Research

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  48. Reproductive health problems such as HIV, unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion among adolescents are closely linked to insufficient knowledge about sexuality and reproduction and lack of access to contracept...

    Authors: Joseph Mumba Zulu, Astrid Blystad, Marte E. S. Haaland, Charles Michelo, Haldis Haukanes and Karen Marie Moland

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:116

    Content type: Research

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  49. Women’s empowerment may require women to change their beliefs and views about their rights and capabilities. Empowerment programs often target women who have survived sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), w...

    Authors: John Quattrochi, Rosalie Biaba, Ragnhild Nordås, Gudrun Østby, Susanne Alldén, Aline Cikara, Esther Namegabe and Christina Amisi

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:149

    Content type: Research

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  50. In 2012, the WHO described the quality of health care as the route to equity and dignity for women and children.

    Authors: Ammal M. Metwally, Rehan M. Saleh, Lobna A. El-Etreby, Somia I. Salama, Ahmed Aboulghate, Hala A. Amer, Asmaa M. Fathy, Reham Yousry, Sherif E. El-Deeb, Ghada A. Abdel-Latif, Dalia M. Elmosalami, Nihad A. Ibrahim, Osama M. Azmy, Tamer Taha, Hanaa M. Imam, Mohamed Abdel Rahman…

    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:146

    Content type: Research

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