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  1. African American/Black and Hispanic persons living with HIV (AABH-PLWH) in the U.S. evidence insufficient engagement in HIV care and low uptake of HIV antiretroviral therapy, leading to suboptimal clinical out...

    Authors: Robert Freeman, Marya Viorst Gwadz, Elizabeth Silverman, Alexandra Kutnick, Noelle R. Leonard, Amanda S. Ritchie, Jennifer Reed and Belkis Y. Martinez
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:54
  2. Health systems across Africa are faced with a multitude of competing priorities amidst pressing resource constraints. Expansion of health insurance coverage offers promise in the quest for sustainable healthca...

    Authors: Tom Achoki and Abaleng Lesego
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:53
  3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians (hereafter respectfully Indigenous Australians) claim that they have been over-researched without corresponding research benefit. This claim raises two questio...

    Authors: Irina Kinchin, Janya Mccalman, Roxanne Bainbridge, Komla Tsey and Felecia Watkin Lui
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:52
  4. Indigenous populations in Latin America have worse health outcomes than their nonindigenous counterparts. Differences in access to and use of biomedical resources may explain some of the observed disparities. ...

    Authors: Matthew Ippolito, Anita Chary, Michael Daniel, Joaquin Barnoya, Anne Monroe and Michelle Eakin
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:51
  5. China has experienced a rapid increase in hypertension over the past decade, especially in rural. Therefore, the aim of this research is to examine the dynamic trends in urban-rural disparities in hypertension...

    Authors: Jiajia Li, Leiyu Shi, Shixue Li, Lingzhong Xu, Wen Qin and Heng Wang
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:50
  6. In 2005, the Indian Government introduced the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) scheme - a conditional cash transfer program that incentivizes women to deliver in a health facility – in order to reduce maternal and...

    Authors: Nattawut Thongkong, Ellen van de Poel, Swati Sarbani Roy, Shibanand Rath and Tanja A. J. Houweling
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:48
  7. China has a large population of children under 18 years of age, whose health is of great concern to the Chinese health care system. However, few studies have been conducted to analyze the factors associated wi...

    Authors: Yi Zhang, Zhongliang Zhou and Yafei Si
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:47
  8. Uttar Pradesh (UP) accounts for the largest number of neonatal deaths in India. This study explores potential socio-economic inequities in household-level contacts by community health workers (CHWs) and whethe...

    Authors: Aparna Seth, Shweta Tomar, Kultar Singh, Dharmendra Chandurkar, Amit Chakraverty, Arnab Dey, Arup K. Das, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Sabrina Boyce, Anita Raj and Jay G. Silverman
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:46
  9. Periods of financial crisis are associated with higher psychological stress among the population and greater use of mental health services. The objective is to analyse contextual factors associated with mental...

    Authors: Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Clara Bermúdez-Tamayo and Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:45
  10. The theory of fundamental causes explains why health disparities persist over time, even as risk factors, mechanisms, and diseases change. Using an intersectional framework, we evaluated multifactorial discrim...

    Authors: Mariam Khan, Misja Ilcisin and Katherine Saxton
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:43

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:144

  11. Equity is one of the major goals of China’s recent health system reform. This study aimed to evaluate the equality of the distribution of health resources and health services between hospitals and primary care...

    Authors: Tao Zhang, Yongjian Xu, Jianping Ren, Liqi Sun and Chaojie Liu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:42
  12. The health-care-seeking process while experiencing marital violence can be significantly influenced by one’s socioeconomic status, which limits the availability of resources and opportunities for accessing tho...

    Authors: Maki Umeda, Norito Kawakami and Elizabeth Miller
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:41

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:110

  13. Several studies suggest that socioeconomic status affects (SES) affects self-rated health (SRH), both in Greece and internationally. However, prior research mainly uses objective measures of SES, instead of su...

    Authors: Antonios Charonis, Ilias-Ioannis Kyriopoulos, Manos Spanakis, Dimitris Zavras, Kostas Athanasakis, Elpida Pavi and John Kyriopoulos
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:40
  14. The need to provide quality and equitable health services and protect populations from impoverishing health care costs has pushed universal health coverage (UHC) to the top of global health policy agenda. In m...

    Authors: Vincent Okungu, Jane Chuma and Di McIntyre
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:39
  15. Japan’s stagnant economy has produced increasing income disparities, and the effect of poverty on health and health-care utilization is a significant issue. Co-payments could be a trade-off for patients when s...

    Authors: Machiko Inoue and Yuko Kachi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:38
  16. Since our launch in 2002, the International Journal for Equity in Health (IJEqH) has furthered our collective understanding of equity in health and health services by providing a platform on which academics an...

    Authors: Ana Lorena Ruano, Efrat Shadmi, John Furler, Krishna Rao, Miguel San Sebastián, Manuela Villar Uribe and Leiyu Shi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:35
  17. The 400 million indigenous people worldwide represent a wealth of linguistic and cultural diversity, as well as traditional knowledge and sustainable practices that are invaluable resources for human developme...

    Authors: Alison Hernández, Ana Lorena Ruano, Bruno Marchal, Miguel San Sebastián and Walter Flores
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:26
  18. The proposal for a global health treaty aimed at health equity, the Framework Convention on Global Health, raises the fundamental question of whether we can achieve true health equity, globally and domesticall...

    Authors: Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:18
  19. The paper examines the role of community-based participatory research (CBPR) within the context of social justice literature and practice.

    Authors: Carlos Devia, Elizabeth A. Baker, Shannon Sanchez-Youngman, Ellen Barnidge, Maxine Golub, Freda Motton, Michael Muhammad, Charmaine Ruddock, Belinda Vicuña and Nina Wallerstein
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:17
  20. Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations (UN) Member States reported progress on the targets toward their general citizenry. This focus repeatedly excluded marginalized ethnic and linguist...

    Authors: Claire E. Brolan, Lisa Forman, Stéphanie Dagron, Rachel Hammonds, Attiya Waris, Lyla Latif and Ana Lorena Ruano
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:14
  21. The role of competition and cooperation in relation to the goal of health equity is examined in this paper. The authors explain why the win-lose mentality associated with avoidable competition is ethically que...

    Authors: Wei-Ching Chang and Joy H. Fraser
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:12
  22. Resources for coronary revascularisations have increased substantially since the early 1990s in Finland. At the same time, ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality has decreased markedly. This study aims to exa...

    Authors: Sonja Lumme, Kristiina Manderbacka and Ilmo Keskimäki
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:37
  23. The goal of this analysis was to describe socioeconomic inequalities in dental health among Spanish middle-aged adults, and the role of behavioral and psychosocial factors in explaining these inequalities.

    Authors: Diego Alberto Capurro and Michael Davidsen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:34
  24. Studies have suggested that social inequalities in chronic disease outcomes differ between industrialized and developing countries, but few have directly compared these effects. We explored inequalities in hyp...

    Authors: Aurelian Bidulescu, Trevor S. Ferguson, Ian Hambleton, Novie Younger-Coleman, Damian Francis, Nadia Bennett, Michael Griswold, Ervin Fox, Marlene MacLeish, Rainford Wilks, E. Nigel Harris and Louis W. Sullivan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:33
  25. Cross-cultural communication in primary care is often difficult, leading to unsatisfactory, substandard care. Supportive evidence-based guidelines and training initiatives (G/TIs) exist to enhance cross cultur...

    Authors: E. Teunissen, K. Gravenhorst, C. Dowrick, E. Van Weel-Baumgarten, F. Van den Driessen Mareeuw, T. de Brún, N. Burns, C. Lionis, F. S. Mair, C. O’Donnell, M. O’Reilly-de Brún, M. Papadakaki, A. Saridaki, W. Spiegel, C. Van Weel, M. Van den Muijsenbergh…
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:32
  26. Monitoring the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure, as well as the impoverishing effects of out of pocket costs to access healthcare, is a key part of benchmarking Kenya’s progress towar...

    Authors: Edwine W. Barasa, Thomas Maina and Nirmala Ravishankar
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:31
  27. Inequalities in demographic, socio-economic and health status for China labor force place them at greater health risks, and marginalized them in the utilization of healthcare services. This paper identifies th...

    Authors: Liming Lu, Jingchun Zeng and Zhi Zeng
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:30
  28. Good health and equal health care are the cornerstones of the Swedish Health and Medical Service Act. Recent studies show that the average level of health, measured as longevity, improves in Sweden, however, s...

    Authors: Bo Burström, Kristina Burström, Gunnar Nilsson, Göran Tomson, Margaret Whitehead and Ulrika Winblad
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:29
  29. Bicycle injuries are a leading cause of accidental death among children in the world, and bicycle-related injuries are also very common in China, thus to find out bicycle injury risk factors is imperative. Thi...

    Authors: Zhen-bin Lin, Yan-hu Ji, Qing-yu Xiao, Li-bo Luo, Li-ping Li and Bernard Choi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:28
  30. Out of pocket (OOP) health spending can potentially expose households to risk of incurring large medical bills, and this may impact on their welfare. This work investigates the effect of catastrophic OOP on th...

    Authors: Martina Mchenga, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa and Levison S. Chiwaula
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:25
  31. Prenatal care coverage is still not universal or adequately provided in many low and middle income countries. One of the main barriers regards the presence of socioeconomic inequalities in prenatal care utiliz...

    Authors: Mônica Viegas Andrade, Kenya Valéria Micaela de Souza Noronha, Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa, Michelle Nepomuceno Souza, Júlia Almeida Calazans, Lucas Resende de Carvalho, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha and Núbia Cristina Silva
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:24
  32. This paper studies the socioeconomic disparities in self-perceived oral health among Chilean adults and in the perceived physical, functional, psychological and social consequences of oral health.

    Authors: Francisco Gallego, Cristián Larroulet, Leonor Palomer, Andrea Repetto and Diego Verdugo
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:23
  33. Studies from Sweden and abroad have established health inequalities between heterosexual and non-heterosexual people. Few studies have examined the underpinnings of such sexual orientation inequalities in heal...

    Authors: Per E Gustafsson, Ida Linander and Paola A Mosquera
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:22
  34. Economic burden to households due to out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) is large in many Asian countries. Though studies suggest increasing household poverty due to high OOPE in developing countries, studies on ...

    Authors: Sanjay K. Mohanty, Nand Kishor Agrawal, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Dhrupad Choudhury, Sabarnee Tuladhar and E Valdemar Holmgren
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:21
  35. Despite the goal of the Swedish health system to offer health care according to the principle of horizontal equity, little is known about the equality in access to health care use among young people. To explor...

    Authors: Paola A. Mosquera, Anna-Karin Waenerlund, Isabel Goicolea and Per E. Gustafsson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:20
  36. Health systems in low and lower-middle income countries, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa, often lack the specialized personnel and infrastructure to provide comprehensive care for elderly/ageing populations....

    Authors: Stephen Tettey Nortey, Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Moses Aikins, Djesika Amendah and Justice Nonvignon
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:16
  37. Equity and justice in healthcare payment form an integral part of health policy and planning. In the majority of low and middle-income countries (LMICs), healthcare inequalities are further aggravated by Out o...

    Authors: Rinshu Dwivedi and Jalandhar Pradhan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:15
  38. Authors: Rosemary J. Korda, Kay Soga, Grace Joshy, Bianca Calabria, John Attia, Deborah Wong and Emily Banks
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:11

    The original article was published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:189

  39. With the depth development of health care system reform in China, emergency medical services (EMS) is confronted with challenges as well as opportunities. This study aimed to analyze the equity of China’s EMS ...

    Authors: Ke Yan, Yi Jiang, Jingfu Qiu, Xiaoni Zhong, Yang Wang, Jing Deng, Jingxi Lian, Tingting Wang and Cheng Cao
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:10
  40. Monitoring the equity of government healthcare subsidies (GHS) is critical for evaluating the performance of health policy decisions. China’s low-income population encounters barriers in accessing benefits fro...

    Authors: Lei Si, Mingsheng Chen and Andrew J. Palmer
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:6
  41. Immigrant and refugee families form a growing proportion of the Canadian population and experience barriers in accessing primary health care services. The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of ac...

    Authors: Roberta Lynn Woodgate, David Shiyokha Busolo, Maryanne Crockett, Ruth Anne Dean, Miriam R. Amaladas and Pierre J. Plourde
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:5
  42. Though poorly known, relationships between disability, need of help (dependency) and use of social services are crucial aspects of public health. The objective of this study was to describe the links between d...

    Authors: J. Almazán-Isla, M. Comín-Comín, E. Alcalde-Cabero, C. Ruiz, E. Franco, R. Magallón, J. Damián, J. de Pedro-Cuesta and L. A. Larrosa-Montañes
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:4

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:91

  43. People who have been in custody are more likely to experience multiple, long standing health issues. They are at high risk of illness and injury post release and experience poor access to health services both ...

    Authors: Jane E. Lloyd, Elizabeth McEntyre, Eileen Baldry, Julian Trofimovos, Devon Indig, Penelope Abbott, Jennifer Reath, Kathy Malera-Bandjalan and Mark F. Harris
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:3
  44. Research indicate that social class mobility could be potentially important for health, but whether this is due to the movement itself or a result of people having been integrated in different class contexts i...

    Authors: Frida Jonsson, Miguel San Sebastian, Anne Hammarström and Per E. Gustafsson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:1
  45. Diet is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and is also strongly patterned by socioeconomic factors. Whether interventions promoting healthy eating reduce social inequalities in diet in lo...

    Authors: Ana-Lucia Mayén, Carlos de Mestral, Gerardo Zamora, Fred Paccaud, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Pascal Bovet and Silvia Stringhini
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:205

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