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  1. Domestic violence is a global public health issue, as it is in Brazil. The psychological violence is one of the most prevalent forms of domestic violence, affecting more women than men. However, many older adu...

    Authors: Rafaella Queiroga Souto, Miriam Aparecida Barbosa Merighi, Sepali Guruge and Maria Cristina Pinto de Jesus
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:44
  2. Cameroon is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having a critical shortage of health personnel. This is further complicated by the geographic distributional inequalities of the national health...

    Authors: Tinyami Erick Tandi, YongMin Cho, Aba Jean-Cluade Akam, Chick Ofilia Afoh, Seung Hun Ryu, Min Seok Choi, KyungHee Kim and Jae Wook Choi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:43
  3. Front line providers of care are frequently lacking in knowledge on and sensitivity to social and structural determinants of underprivileged patients’ health. Developing and evaluating approaches to raising healt...

    Authors: Martine C Lévesque, Alissa Levine and Christophe Bedos
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:41
  4. Primary care (PC) is the provision of universally accessible, integrated, person-centred, comprehensive health and community services. Professionals active in primary care teams include family physicians and g...

    Authors: Suzana Kert, Igor Švab, Maja Sever, Irena Makivić and Danica Rotar Pavlič
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:39
  5. We apply capital interplay theory to health inequalities in Switzerland by investigating the interconnected effects of parental cultural, economic and social capitals and personal educational stream on the sel...

    Authors: Gerry Veenstra and Thomas Abel
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:38
  6. Roma are the most deprived ethnic minority in Slovakia, suffering from discrimination, poverty and social exclusion. Problematic access to good quality health care as result of institutional and interpersonal ...

    Authors: Daniela Bobakova, Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska, Ingrid Babinska, Daniel Klein, Andrea Madarasova Geckova and Lydia Cislakova
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:37
  7. Investing in social capital has been put forth as a potential lever for policy action to tackle health inequity. Notwithstanding, empirical evidence that supports social capital’s role in the existence of heal...

    Authors: Wim Hardyns, Veerle Vyncke, Lieven Pauwels and Sara Willems
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:36
  8. Providing services for street level sex workers requires a multidisciplinary approach, addressing both health and safety concerns typical of their age and gender and those that arise specific to their line of ...

    Authors: Kate Bodkin, Alannah Delahunty-Pike and Tim O’Shea
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:35
  9. Preventable mortality is a good indicator of possible problems to be investigated in the primary prevention chain, making it also a useful tool with which to evaluate health policies particularly public health...

    Authors: Andreu Nolasco, Joaquin Moncho, Jose Antonio Quesada, Inmaculada Melchor, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca, Miguel Angel Martínez-Beneito, Oscar Zurriaga, Mónica Ballesta, Antonio Daponte, Ana Gandarillas, Mª Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Mercè Gotsens, Natividad Izco, Mª Concepción Moreno…
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:33
  10. Maternal and child healthcare services are very important for the health outcomes of the mother and that of the child and in ensuring that both maternal and child deaths are prevented. Studying these services ...

    Authors: Mluleki Tsawe, Amos Moto, Thendo Netshivhera, Lesego Ralesego, Cassandra Nyathi and A Sathiya Susuman
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:32
  11. Literature shows socioeconomic disparities are related to various aspects of diabetes care. However, few studies have explored the relationship between socioeconomics and healthcare outcomes, particularly with...

    Authors: Pei-Ching Chen, Ching-Yao Tsai, Lin-Chung Woung and Yue-Chune Lee
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:31
  12. Use of the hospital emergency department (ED) for medical conditions not likely to require immediate treatment is a controversial topic. It has been faulted for ED overcrowding, increased expenditures, and dec...

    Authors: Brian K Chen, James Hibbert, Xi Cheng and Kevin Bennett
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:30
  13. Framed within the recent economic crisis, in this study we investigate the medical mental health care use of the unemployed compared with that of the employed in Europe, and whether the relationship between em...

    Authors: Veerle Buffel, Vera van de Straat and Piet Bracke
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:29
  14. Disease Management Programmes (DMPs) have been introduced in Germany ten years ago with the aim to improve effectiveness and equity of care, but little is known about the degree to which enrolment in the progr...

    Authors: Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Miguel San Sebastian, Hermann Brenner, Oliver Razum, Werner Maier, Kai-Uwe Saum, Bernd Holleczek, Antje Miksch and Joachim Szecsenyi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:28
  15. The objectives of this study were to investigate differences on health protection status between two generations (born pre- vs. post- 1980) of rural-to-urban migrants in China, and whether the differences are ...

    Authors: Yang Yang, Xing Zhao, PeiYuan Qiu, Xiao Ma and Chih-Ping Chou
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:27
  16. Older persons report poor health status and greater need for healthcare. However, there is limited research on older persons’ healthcare disparities in Uganda. Therefore, this paper aimed at investigating fact...

    Authors: Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Betty Kwagala and James Ntozi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:26
  17. This study will examine explanatory variables including socioeconomic inequalities related to mental stress at both the individual and regional level.

    Authors: Hongmei Wang, Xiaozhao Y Yang, Tingzhong Yang, Randall R Cottrell, Lingwei Yu, Xueying Feng and Shuhan Jiang
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:25
  18. Despite the relentless efforts to reduce infant and child mortality with the introduction of the National Expanded Programmes on Immunization (EPI) in 1974, major disparities still exist in immunizations cover...

    Authors: Thaddaeus Egondi, Maharouf Oyolola, Martin Kavao Mutua and Patricia Elung’ata
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:24
  19. Despite the large body of research on racial/ethnic disparities in health, there are limited data on health disparities in Caribbean origin populations. This review aims to analyze and synthesize published lit...

    Authors: Nadia R Bennett, Damian K Francis, Trevor S Ferguson, Anselm JM Hennis, Rainford J Wilks, Eon Nigel Harris, Marlene MY MacLeish and Louis W Sullivan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:23
  20. The editors of International Journal for Equity in Health would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 13 (2014).

    Authors: Ana Lorena Ruano, Efrat Shadmi and Leiyu Shi
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:22
  21. Ensuring equitable coverage of appropriate malaria treatment remains a high priority for the Nigerian government. This study examines the health seeking behaviour, patient-provider interaction and quality of c...

    Authors: Ogochukwu P Ibe, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Bonnie Cundill, Virginia Wiseman, Benjamin S Uzochukwu and Obinna E Onwujekwe
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:19
  22. Socio-economic inequalities in health are large in urban areas; however, local municipal governments may plan, manage and provide services and policies which can reduce these. The objective of this study was t...

    Authors: Joana Morrison, Mariona Pons-Vigués, Elia Díez, Maria Isabel Pasarin, Sergio Salas-Nicás and Carme Borrell
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:18
  23. In this article three research questions are addressed: (1) Is there an association between socioeconomic status (SES) and patient-reported outcomes in a cohort of multimorbid patients? (2) Does the associatio...

    Authors: Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Horst Bickel, Angela Fuchs, Jochen Gensichen, Susanne Höfels, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König, Karola Mergenthal, Gerhard Schön, Karl Wegscheider, Siegfried Weyerer, Birgitt Wiese, Martin Scherer, Hendrik van den Bussche and Ingmar Schäfer
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:17
  24. There are an estimated 165,000 indigenous Mexicans living in California, including Mixtec and Zapotec immigrant farm workers. Because many of these immigrants speak only their native non-written languages, the...

    Authors: Annette E Maxwell, Sandra Young, Catherine M Crespi, Roena Rabelo Vega, Reggie T Cayetano and Roshan Bastani
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:16
  25. Many countries have demonstrated interest in expanding their medical tourism sectors because of its potential economic and health system benefits. However, medical tourism poses challenges to the equitable dis...

    Authors: Rory Johnston, Krystyna Adams, Lisa Bishop, Valorie A Crooks and Jeremy Snyder
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:15
  26. Nurses have long been identified as key contributors to strategies to reduce health inequalities. However, health inequalities are increasing in the UK despite policy measures put in place to reduce them. This...

    Authors: Mzwandile A Mabhala
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:14
  27. With mounting evidence that poor maternal and child health outcomes are related to the social determinants of health, researchers need to engage with vulnerable and isolated communities to gather the evidence ...

    Authors: Elisha Riggs, Jane Yelland, Josef Szwarc, Sue Casey, Donna Chesters, Philippa Duell-Piening, Sayed Wahidi, Fatema Fouladi and Stephanie Brown
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:13
  28. Attention to the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ is increasingly being recognized as contributing to better science through an augmented understanding of how these factors impact on health inequities and relate...

    Authors: Jacqueline Gahagan, Kimberly Gray and Ardath Whynacht
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:12
  29. Accurate measurement of health inequities is indispensable to track progress or to identify needs for health equity policy interventions. A key empirical task is to measure the extent to which observed inequal...

    Authors: Yukiko Asada, Jeremiah Hurley, Ole Frithjof Norheim and Mira Johri
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:11
  30. This study explored the views, barriers and facilitators of the poorly-educated elderly who were non-attendee of the nurse-led case manager clinic. The case managers provide assessment for diabetes complicatio...

    Authors: Susanna Lok Lam Hung, Sau Nga Fu, Po Shan Lau and Samuel Yeung Shan Wong
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:10
  31. Adult oral health is predicted by oral health in childhood. Prevention improves oral health in childhood and, consequently in adulthood, so substantial cost savings can be derived from prevention. The burden o...

    Authors: Jaime Pinilla, Miguel A Negrín-Hernández and Ignacio Abásolo
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:9
  32. Although numerous studies examine catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) worldwide, most focus on whole populations rather than specific vulnerable groups. This study analyzes the extent, associated factors an...

    Authors: Zhonghua Wang, Xiangjun Li and Mingsheng Chen
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:8
  33. Achieving health equity for indigenous and ethnic minority populations requires the development of an ethnically diverse health workforce. This study explores a tertiary admission programme targeting Māori and...

    Authors: Elana Curtis, Erena Wikaire, Yannan Jiang, Louise McMillan, Rob Loto, Airini and Papaarangi Reid
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:7
  34. Obesity is an increasing problem in South Asian countries and Sri Lanka is no exception. The socioeconomic determinants of obesity in Sri Lanka, and in neighbouring countries are inadequately described. Aim wa...

    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 2015 14:6
  35. Many Chinese elderly increasingly face the serious problem of the “empty nest” phenomenon. The elderly living independently, also called empty-nest elderly, refers to elderly people living alone whose children...

    Authors: Yicheng Zhou, Linyi Zhou, Changluan Fu, You Wang, Qingle Liu, Hongtao Wu, Rongjun Zhang and Linfeng Zheng
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:5
  36. Ensuring access to timely and appropriate primary healthcare for deprived patients is an issue facing all countries, even those with universal healthcare systems. There is a paucity of information on how patie...

    Authors: Christine Loignon, Catherine Hudon, Émilie Goulet, Sophie Boyer, Marianne De Laat, Nathalie Fournier, Cristina Grabovschi and Paula Bush
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:4
  37. Glasgow City has poorer adolescent and adult health outcomes in comparison to demographically similar cities in England and the rest of Scotland. Until now, little exploration of differences in child developme...

    Authors: Louise Marryat, Lucy Thompson, Helen Minnis and Philip Wilson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:3
  38. Access to health insurance is expected to have positive effect in improving access to healthcare and offer financial risk protection to households. Ghana began the implementation of a National Health Insurance...

    Authors: Anthony Kusi, Ulrika Enemark, Kristian S Hansen and Felix A Asante
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2015 14:2
  39. In the Netherlands, as in other Western countries, ethnic minority elderly are more often in poorer health than the indigenous population. The expectation is that this health disadvantage results in more frequ...

    Authors: Ilona Verhagen, Wynand JG Ros, Bas Steunenberg, Wijnand Laan and Niek J de Wit
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:125
  40. The purpose of this bibliography is to present studies from peer-reviewed and grey literature that used consultations and other participatory strategies to capture a community’s perspective of their health pri...

    Authors: Faraz Rahim Siddiqui
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:124
  41. Universal Health Coverage (UHC), referring to access to healthcare without financial burden, has received renewed attention in global health spheres. UHC is a potential goal in the post-2015 development agenda...

    Authors: Valerie Obare, Claire E Brolan and Peter S Hill
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:123
  42. Recently settled refugee populations have consistently been reported to have high rates of mental health problems, particularly Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders. The aim of thi...

    Authors: Maria Brendler-Lindqvist, Marie Norredam and Anders Hjern
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:122
  43. In Hong Kong, migrants arriving from Mainland China often have multiple roles and responsibilities while adapting to new lives in their host destination. This paper explored the factors that contribute to the ...

    Authors: William CW Wong, Petula SY Ho, Jun Liang, Eleanor A Holroyd, Cindy LK Lam and Agnes MY Pau
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2014 13:127

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