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  1. The aim of this study is to examine the association between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and the experience as well as treatment of dental caries among children aged 9 to 18 years.

    Authors: Juyeong Kim, Young Choi, Sohee Park, Jeong Lim Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Kyoung Hee Cho and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:88
  2. Inaccessibility due to terrain and lack of transport leaves mothers travelling for long hours before reaching a facility to deliver a child. In the present article we analyzed the issue of spatial inaccessibil...

    Authors: Lalitha Vadrevu and Barun Kanjilal
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:87
  3. The potential menstrual hygiene management barriers faced by adolescent girls and women in workplace environments in low- and middle-income countries has been under addressed in research, programming and polic...

    Authors: Marni Sommer, Sahani Chandraratna, Sue Cavill, Therese Mahon and Penelope Phillips-Howard
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:86
  4. Adult education institutions have been identified as potential settings to improve health literacy and address the health inequalities that stem from limited health literacy. However, few health literacy inter...

    Authors: Danielle M. Muscat, Sian Smith, Haryana M. Dhillon, Suzanne Morony, Esther L. Davis, Karen Luxford, Heather L. Shepherd, Andrew Hayen, John Comings, Don Nutbeam and Kirsten McCaffery
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:84
  5. Since the beginning of economic crisis, Greece has been experiencing unprecedented levels of unemployment and profound cuts to public budgets. Health and welfare sectors were subject to severe austerity measur...

    Authors: Marina Karanikolos and Alexander Kentikelenis
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:83
  6. The use of social media and digital technologies has grown rapidly in Australia and around the world, including among Indigenous young people who face social disadvantage. Given the potential to use social med...

    Authors: Emma S. Rice, Emma Haynes, Paul Royce and Sandra C. Thompson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:81
  7. International migration and the number of migrant women who experience pregnancy and childbirth in receiving countries have significantly increased in the last two decades. Migrant women often have unmet socia...

    Authors: Maira Quintanilha, Maria J. Mayan, Jessica Thompson and Rhonda C. Bell
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:80
  8. Previous studies have documented higher health risks for lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth compared to heterosexual youth. However, none has reported whether the sexual orientation-based gaps have widened, narr...

    Authors: Yuko Homma, Elizabeth Saewyc and Bruno D. Zumbo
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:79
  9. Health inequalities disproportionally affect indigenous people in Guatemala. Previous studies have noted that the disadvantageous situation of indigenous people is the result of complex and structural elements...

    Authors: Alejandro Cerón, Ana Lorena Ruano, Silvia Sánchez, Aiken S. Chew, Diego Díaz, Alison Hernández and Walter Flores
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:77
  10. The introduction of health insurance in Ghana in 2003 has resulted in a tremendous increase in utilization of health services. However, concerns are being raised about the quality of patient care. Some of the ...

    Authors: Aaron A. Abuosi, Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh, Joshua Yindenaba Abor and Edward Nketiah-Amponsah
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:76
  11. Unemployment has a number of negative consequences, such as decreased income and poor self-rated health. However, the relationships between unemployment, income, and health are not fully understood. Longitudin...

    Authors: Anne Grete Tøge
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:75
  12. Information on socioeconomic determinants in the management of diabetes mellitus is scarce in lower middle income countries. The aim of this study is to describe the socioeconomic determinants of management an...

    Authors: Ambepitiyawaduge Pubudu De Silva, Sudirikku Hennadige Padmal De Silva, Rashan Haniffa, Isurujith Kongala Liyanage, Kosala Saroj Amarasiri Jayasinghe, Prasad Katulanda, Chandrika Neelakanthi Wijeratne, Sumedha Wijeratne and Lalini Chandika Rajapakse
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:74
  13. The clinical importance and efficacy of facemasks in infection prevention have been documented in the international literature. Past studies have shown that the perceived susceptibility, the perceived severity...

    Authors: Judy Yuen-man Siu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:73
  14. Subsidizing healthcare costs through insurance schemes is crucial to overcome financial barriers to health care and to avoid high medical expenditures for patients in China. The health insurance could decrease...

    Authors: Jingdong Ma, Juan Xu, Zhiguo Zhang and Jing Wang
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:72
  15. High out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) make delivery care difficult to access for a large proportion of India’s population. Given that home deliveries increase the risk of maternal mortality, in 2005 the India...

    Authors: Kristi Sidney, Mariano Salazar, Gaetano Marrone, Vishal Diwan, Ayesha DeCosta and Lars Lindholm
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:71
  16. More than 3 billion of the world’s population are affected by household air pollution from relying on unprocessed solid fuels for heating and cooking. Household air pollution is harmful to human health, climat...

    Authors: Praveen Kumar, Nishesh Chalise and Gautam N. Yadama
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:70
  17. Early detection of emergent influenza strains is a global health priority. However, maintaining active surveillance is economically and logistically challenging. While community-based surveillance is an attrac...

    Authors: Alejandro Cerón, Maria Renee Ortiz, Danilo Álvarez, Guy H. Palmer and Celia Cordón-Rosales
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:69
  18. Most low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) rely significantly on private health expenditure in the form of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) and voluntary health insurance (VHI). This paper assesses VHI expenditu...

    Authors: Luisa M. Pettigrew and Inke Mathauer
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:67
  19. Informal workers often face considerable risks and vulnerabilities as a consequence of their work and employment conditions. The purpose of this study was to examine the interplay between the experience of inf...

    Authors: Vanphanom Sychareun, Viengnakhone Vongxay, Vassana Thammavongsa, Souksamone Thongmyxay, Phouthong Phummavongsa and Jo Durham
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:66
  20. Many evidences illustrate that the Pap smear screening successfully reduces if the cervical cancer could be detected and treated sufficiently early. People with disability were higher comorbidity prevalence, a...

    Authors: Wen-Hui Fang, Chia-Feng Yen, Jung Hu, Jin-Ding Lin and Ching-Hui Loh
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:65
  21. Improving access to primary healthcare (PHC) for vulnerable populations is important for achieving health equity, yet this remains challenging. Evidence of effective interventions is rather limited and fragmen...

    Authors: Lauralie Richard, John Furler, Konstancja Densley, Jeannie Haggerty, Grant Russell, Jean-Frederic Levesque and Jane Gunn
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:64
  22. An economic crisis can widen health inequalities between individuals. The aim of this paper is to explore differences in the effect of socioeconomic characteristics on Spaniards’ self-assessed health status, d...

    Authors: Clara Barroso, Ignacio Abásolo and José J. Cáceres
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:62
  23. Large cities are often claimed to display more distinct geographical and socioeconomic health inequalities than other areas due to increasing residential differentiation. Our aim was to assess whether geograph...

    Authors: Markku Lehikoinen, Martti Arffman, Kristiina Manderbacka, Marko Elovainio and Ilmo Keskimäki
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:59
  24. The oral condition of people with disabilities has considerable influence on their physical and mental health. However, nationwide surveys regarding this group have not been conducted. For this study, we used ...

    Authors: Ming-Chuan Chen, Pei-Tseng Kung, Hsun-Pi Su, Suh-May Yen, Li-Ting Chiu and Wen-Chen Tsai
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:58
  25. Many low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region have introduced social health insurance payroll taxes after the political transition in the late 1980s, combin...

    Authors: Inke Mathauer, Mareike Theisling, Benoit Mathivet and Ileana Vilcu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:57
  26. The high prevalence of chronic diseases in Tanzania is putting a strain on the already stretched health care services, patients and their families. This study sought to find out how health care for diabetes an...

    Authors: Mary N. Mwangome, Eveline Geubbels, Paul Klatser and Marjolein Dieleman
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:56
  27. Although a number of studies on infectious disease trends in China exist, these studies have not distinguished the age, period, and cohort effects simultaneously. Here, we analyze infectious disease mortality ...

    Authors: Zhi Li, Peigang Wang, Ge Gao, Chunling Xu and Xinguang Chen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:55
  28. Individual-based interventions aim to improve patient self-management of chronic disease and to improve lifestyle among people at high risk, to reduce the prevalence of diseases contributing to health inequali...

    Authors: Nanna Kure-Biegel, Christina Warrer Schnohr, Anette Lykke Hindhede and Finn Diderichsen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:54
  29. Poor mental health contributes to poor HIV prevention, treatment and care outcomes. This paper documents factors associated with psychological distress among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Cambodia and dis...

    Authors: Siyan Yi, Sovannary Tuot, Pheak Chhoun, Khuondyla Pal, Sok Chamreun Choub and Gitau Mburu
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:53
  30. Investigations into socioeconomic inequalities in mortality have rarely used long-term mortality follow-up data from nationally representative samples in Asian countries. A limited subset of indicators for soc...

    Authors: Young-Ho Khang and Hye-Ryun Kim
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:51
  31. Minority children have the highest US uninsurance rates; Latino and African-American children account for 53 % of uninsured American children, despite comprising only 48 % of the total US child population. The...

    Authors: Glenn Flores, Hua Lin, Candy Walker, Michael Lee, Alberto Portillo, Monica Henry, Marco Fierro and Kenneth Massey
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:44
  32. Racism and associated discrimination are pervasive and persistent challenges with multiple cumulative deleterious effects contributing to inequities in various health outcomes. Globally, research over the past...

    Authors: Kaine Grigg and Lenore Manderson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:49
  33. Using the nexus between food consumption, food security and obesity, this paper addresses the complexity of health behavior decision-making moments that reflect relational social dynamics in context-specific d...

    Authors: Robert V. H. Dover and Estelle V. Lambert
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:48
  34. Effective implementation can maximise the beneficial impacts of health services. It is therefore important to review implementation in the context of Indigenous populations, who suffer some of the greatest dis...

    Authors: Janya McCalman, Roxanne Bainbridge, Nikki Percival and Komla Tsey
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:47
  35. The strategy of health policy has been changed for improving the performances to meeting the increasing healthcare demands. However, limited evidences were found to prove that the bundled payment was valid for...

    Authors: Jian Wu, Xiaofang Li, Yao Song, Hui Shao, Qian Shi, Doudou Qin, Shuangbao Xie and Lizheng Shi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:46
  36. Influenza continues to have a major impact on vulnerable populations worldwide, particularly among the elderly (≥60 years of age). Vaccination for targeted groups is recommended by the WHO as the most effectiv...

    Authors: Tongtong Li, Min Lv, Trudy Lei, Jiang Wu, Xinghuo Pang, Ying Deng and Zheng Xie
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:45
  37. Authors: World Health Organization, Ileana Vilcu and Inke Mathauer
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:43

    The original article was published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:7

  38. The article explores in how far financial accessibility of healthcare (FAH) is restricted for low-income groups and identifies social protection policies that can supplement health policies in guaranteeing uni...

    Authors: Sabine Israel
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:41
  39. A little-studied issue in the provision of care at home by informal caregivers is the increase in older adult patients with chronic illness, and more specifically, multiple chronic conditions (MCC). We know li...

    Authors: Allison Williams, Bharati Sethi, Wendy Duggleby, Jenny Ploeg, Maureen Markle-Reid, Shelley Peacock and Sunita Ghosh
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:40

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