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  1. Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key...

    Authors: Benjamin Palafox, Martin McKee, Dina Balabanova, Khalid F. AlHabib, Alvaro Jr Avezum, Ahmad Bahonar, Noorhassim Ismail, Jephat Chifamba, Clara K. Chow, Daniel J. Corsi, Gilles R. Dagenais, Rafael Diaz, Rajeev Gupta, Romaina Iqbal, Manmeet Kaur, Rasha Khatib…
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:199
  2. Child undernutrition showed geographical inequalities due to variations in contextual determinants from area to area which indicates that location is an important factor in child undernutrition. However, there...

    Authors: Zewdie Aderaw Alemu, Ahmed Ali Ahmed, Alemayehu Worku Yalew and Belay Simanie Birhanu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:198
  3. The involvement of patients and the public in healthcare has grown significantly in recent decades and is documented in health policy documents internationally. Many benefits of involving these groups in prima...

    Authors: Patrick O’Donnell, Edel Tierney, Austin O’Carroll, Diane Nurse and Anne MacFarlane
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:197
  4. The vulnerability approach suggests that disasters such as epidemics have different effects according not only to physical vulnerability but also to economic class (status). This paper examines the effect of t...

    Authors: Ayoung Lee and Joonmo Cho
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:196
  5. Modification of known risk factors has been the most tested strategy for dealing with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The cumulative number of NCD risk factors exhibited by an individual depicts a disease bu...

    Authors: Ronald Wesonga, David Guwatudde, Silver K. Bahendeka, Gerald Mutungi, Fabian Nabugoomu and James Muwonge
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:195
  6. In 2009, China launched a health reform to promote the equalization of national essential public health services package (NEPHSP). The present study aimed to describe the financing strategies and mechanisms to...

    Authors: Li Yang, Li Sun, Liankui Wen, Huyang Zhang, Chenyang Li, Kara Hanson and Hai Fang
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:194
  7. Policy makers require information regarding performance of different primary care delivery models in managing hypertension, which can be helpful for better hypertension management. This study aims to compare c...

    Authors: Haitao Li, Ying Sun and Dongfu Qian
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:193
  8. Building highly qualified General Practitioners (GPs) is key to the development of primary health care. It’s therefore urgent to ensure the GPs’ quality service under the background of the new round of health ...

    Authors: Ming Li, Zhiqun Shu, Xuan Huang, Zhaohui Du, Jun Wu, Qingshi Xia, Kun Liu, Jiquan Lou and Limei Jing
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:192
  9. There is strong research evidence on the importance of health equity and equality for wellbeing in societies. As chronic non-communicable diseases are widespread, the positive impact of physical activity (PA) ...

    Authors: Riitta-Maija Hämäläinen, Petru Sandu, Ahmed M. Syed and Mette W. Jakobsen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:191
  10. Thailand has achieved remarkable improvement in health status since the achievement of universal health coverage in 2002. Health equity has improved significantly. However, challenges on health inequity still ...

    Authors: Suchunya Aungkulanon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Kenji Shibuya, Kanitta Bundhamcharoen and Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:190
  11. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) disproportionately affects disadvantaged people, but reliable quantitative evidence on socioeconomic variation in CVD incidence in Australia is lacking. This study aimed to quantif...

    Authors: Rosemary J. Korda, Kay Soga, Grace Joshy, Bianca Calabria, John Attia, Deborah Wong and Emily Banks
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:189

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:11

  12. China is now under a period of social transition, and inequity is evident in the field of health care. We aimed to investigate regional health-care inequalities in children’s survival in Zhejiang Province, China.

    Authors: Weifang Zhang, Dingwan Chen, Huan Zhou, Yanhua Xu, Zhuopu Xu, Ying Ying and Zhengyan Zhao
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:188
  13. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience inequity in health outcomes in Australia. Health care interactions are an important starting place to seek to address this inequity. The majority of heal...

    Authors: Annabelle M. Wilson, Janet Kelly, Anthea Magarey, Michelle Jones and Tamara Mackean
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:187
  14. Despite depression being one of the most prevalent mental disorders in the world, access to treatment is still insufficient, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study is to investig...

    Authors: Claudia Souza Lopes, Natália Hellwig, Gulnar de Azevedo e Silva and Paulo Rossi Menezes
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:154
  15. Considering the high socioeconomic inequalities in Brazil related to occurrence of morbidity and premature mortality, the objective of this study was to analyze inequalities in self-reported prevalence of Non-...

    Authors: Deborah Carvalho Malta, Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Celia Landman Szwarcwald, Margareth Guimarães Lima and Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:153
  16. A usual source of care (USC) has been conceptualized as having a health provider or place available for patients to consult when sick or in need of medical care. Having a USC is a means to achieve longitudinal...

    Authors: Inês Dourado, Maria Guadalupe Medina and Rosana Aquino
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:151
  17. The Brazilian Unified Health System is a public healthcare system that has universal and equitable access among its main principles, but the continental size of the country and the complexity of the public hea...

    Authors: Cristiano Siqueira Boccolini and Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Junior
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:150
  18. The Brazilian SUS (Unified Health System) was created in 1988 within the new constitution, based on the premises of being universal, comprehensive, and equitable. The SUS offers free health care, independent o...

    Authors: Giovanny V. A. França, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Maria Fátima S. Maia, Cesar G. Victora and Aluísio J. D. Barros
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:149
  19. Considering the high socioeconomic inequalities prevailing in Brazil and lifestyle as a strong determinant of morbidity and premature mortality, our purpose was to evaluate the degree of socioeconomic disparit...

    Authors: Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros, Margareth Guimarães Lima, Lhais de Paula Barbosa Medina, Celia Landman Szwarcwald and Deborah Carvalho Malta
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:148
  20. Hypertension is a major public health issue worldwide, but knowledge is scarce about its patterns and its relationship to multiple axes of social disadvantages in Latin American countries. This study describes...

    Authors: Ronaldo Fernandes Santos Alves and Eduardo Faerstein
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:146
  21. In recent decades middle-income countries have experienced a rapid increase in the number of cars and motorcycles. Increased deaths and hospitalizations due to road traffic injuries (RTI) has been observed in ...

    Authors: Otaliba Libanio Morais Neto, Ana Lúcia Andrade, Rafael Alves Guimarães, Polyana Maria Pimenta Mandacarú and Gabriela Camargo Tobias
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:142
  22. The demographic shift and epidemiologic transition in Brazil have drawn attention to ways of measuring population health that complement studies of mortality. In this paper, we investigate regional differences...

    Authors: Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior, Aline Pinto Marques, Wanessa da Silva de Almeida and Dalia Elena Romero Montilla
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:141
  23. Brazil has made progress towards a more equitable distribution of health care, but gains may be threatened by economic instability resulting from the 2008 global financial crisis. This study measured predictor...

    Authors: Pricila Mullachery, Diana Silver and James Macinko
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:140
  24. Socioeconomic differences in health in Brazil are largely driven by differences in educational attainment. In this paper, we assess whether educational gradients in chronic disease prevalence have narrowed in ...

    Authors: Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez and Flavia C. D. Andrade
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:139
  25. Globally, inequality between men and women manifests in a variety of ways. In particular, gender inequality increases the risk of perpetration of violence against women (VAW), especially intimate partner viole...

    Authors: Mariana V. Gattegno, Jasmine D. Wilkins and Dabney P. Evans
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:138
  26. This study assesses the association between socioeconomic factors and living arrangements with activity of daily living limitations (ADL) and the receipt of informal and formal care among non-institutionalized...

    Authors: Ma.Fernanda Lima-Costa, Juliana V. M. Mambrini, Sérgio V. Peixoto, Deborah C. Malta and James Macinko
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:137
  27. Mass population screening for the early detection of cervical and breast cancer has been shown to be a safe and effective strategy worldwide and has reduced the incidence and mortality rates of these diseases....

    Authors: Mariza Miranda Theme Filha, Maria do Carmo Leal, Elaine Fernandes Viellas de Oliveira, Ana Paula Esteves-Pereira and Silvana Granado Nogueira da Gama
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:136
  28. We explore long-term trends and determinants of socioeconomic inequities in chronic childhood undernutrition measured by stunting among under-five children in Bangladesh. Given that one in three children remai...

    Authors: Atonu Rabbani, Akib Khan, Sifat Yusuf and Alayne Adams
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:186

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:2

  29. Obesity rates have continued to increase over time globally, resulting in an increase in the burden of obesity-associated chronic diseases. There is a paucity of research on the association between obesity and...

    Authors: Tomi F. Akinyemiju, Xueyan Zhao, Swati Sakhuja and Pauline Jolly
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:185
  30. Gypsy/Travellers have poor health and experience discrimination alongside structural and cultural barriers when accessing health services and consequently may mistrust those services. Our study aims to investi...

    Authors: Alison McFadden, Karl Atkin, Kerry Bell, Nicola Innes, Cath Jackson, Helen Jones, Steve MacGillivray and Lindsay Siebelt
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:183
  31. Out-of-pocket expenditure to pay for health services could result in financial catastrophe. The purpose of this study was to identify the incidence and determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for h...

    Authors: Jeannette Liliana Amaya-Lara
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:182
  32. The Philippines failed to achieve its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) commitment to reduce maternal deaths by three quarters. This, together with the recently launched Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), r...

    Authors: Karlo Paolo P. Paredes
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:181
  33. Trust is important for health at both the individual and societal level. Previous research using Western concepts of trust has shown that a high level of trust in society can positively affect individuals’ hea...

    Authors: Zhixin Feng, Athina Vlachantoni, Xiaoting Liu and Kelvyn Jones
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:180
  34. There is a well-documented social gradient in obesity in most developed countries. Many previous studies have conventionally categorised individuals according to their body mass index (BMI), focusing on those ...

    Authors: Alejandro Rodriguez-Caro, Laura Vallejo-Torres and Beatriz Lopez-Valcarcel
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:175
  35. Access to healthcare services has an essential role in promoting health equity and quality of life. Knowing where the places are and how much of the population is covered by the existing healthcare network is ...

    Authors: António dos Anjos Luis and Pedro Cabral
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:173
  36. Health expenditure for tuberculosis (TB) care often pushes households into catastrophe and poverty. New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) aims to protect households from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) a...

    Authors: Chengchao Zhou, Qian Long, Jiaying Chen, Li Xiang, Qiang Li, Shenglan Tang, Fei Huang, Qiang Sun, Henry Lucas and Shitong Huan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:172
  37. During the last two decades, differential consumption patterns in health-related behaviours have increasingly been highlighted as playing an important role in explaining persistent and widening health inequali...

    Authors: Emma Stait and Michael Calnan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:171
  38. Increased trade between China and Uganda has fueled trafficking of female Ugandans into China. These women may face challenges accessing health services. This study focused on examining barriers to health care...

    Authors: Alissa Davis, Beth E. Meyerson, Blessing Aghaulor, Katherine Brown, Adisyn Watson, Kathryn E. Muessig, Ligang Yang and Joseph D. Tucker
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:170
  39. The catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment indices offer guidance for developing appropriate health policies and intervention programs to decrease financial inequity. This study assesses socioecono...

    Authors: Vu Duy Kien, Hoang Van Minh, Kim Bao Giang, Amy Dao, Le Thanh Tuan and Nawi Ng
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:169
  40. Access to community-based primary health care (hereafter, ‘primary care’) is a priority in many countries. Health care systems have emphasized policies that help the community ‘get the right service in the rig...

    Authors: Vladimir Khanassov, Pierre Pluye, Sarah Descoteaux, Jeannie L. Haggerty, Grant Russell, Jane Gunn and Jean-Frederic Levesque
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:168
  41. Research on health inequalities can be instrumental in drawing attention to the health of socioeconomically vulnerable groups in India in the context of rapid economic growth. It can shape the dialogue for pub...

    Authors: Nandita Bhan, Krishna Dipankar Rao and Shivani Kachwaha
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:166

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