Health Inequity
Measuring global health inequity
... poor health will be less in a wealthier sub-region than in a poorer sub-region ...of health equity, rather than simply health inequality, would need to take this into ...a health ...
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Health inequity in access to bariatric surgery: a protocol for a systematic review
... [21]. Health inequity, defined as unfair inequalities in population groups that lead to unequal chances to access health care services [22], may be to ...
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Social inequalities, regional disparities and health inequity in North African countries
... and health conditions of their populations in ...and health inequity have persisted or even ...World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations ...
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Health inequity in the Northern Territory, Australia
... Health inequity is an important social justice issue. Indi- genous people have experienced the negative effects of col- onisation with many suffering low income, poor education, unemployment, overcrowded ...
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Strengthening the capacities of a national health authority in the effort to mitigate health inequity—the Israeli model
... with health inequity to the decision-makers’ agenda specifically in 2009; why the decision-makers adopted it; what significance this window of opportunity held; and whether policy in this field can be ...
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Policies to mitigate health inequity: a comparison of Israel and 24 developing countries
... of health disparities and support the 2011 Rio Declaration expressing the WHO member states ’ commitment to fighting health in- equity by addressing the social determinants of health ...economic ...
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Health inequity in a neoliberal society : lifestyle choices or constrained practices?
... their health-related practices and health outcomes leads to an inevitable process of stigmatization of those groups that adopt unhealthy practices and are ill (Blaxter 1997; Crawford 1984; Crawford ...on ...
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Social inequalities and health inequity in Morocco
... ical care. The inequity is more exacerbated in rural areas where this percentage reaches 44 % (Table 7). Inequities also exist for the free access to public structures since the richest are more likely to get free ...
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Health Inequity in Children and Youth With Chronic Health Conditions
... following health conditions: acute leukemia, asthma, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spec- trum disorders, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, diabetes mellitus, Down syndrome, HIV/AIDS, major ...
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A three-stage approach to measuring health inequalities and inequities
... measure health inequities in a richer, more flexible way, and drawing upon the recent develop- ments in related specialized fields, this paper proposes a three-stage approach that explicitly and transparently in- ...
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Health Equity and Access to Health Care in Trinidad and Tobago
... Abstract: Health inequity persists, particularly in developing ...public health care and ...media, health reports, and patient experiences. Health accessibility links to equity were ...
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Study protocol: SWING – social capital and well-being in neighborhoods in Ghent
... of health in- ...the health of people living in deprived circumstances ...to health inequity, being health behavior and material ...influences health behavior trough the values ...
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Creating conditions for Canadian aboriginal health equity: the promise of healthy public policy
... of health and health care for First Nations to the federal government, while for the general popula- tion, health was primarily a provincial ...modern health, social, economic and political ...
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A cost-based equity weight for use in the economic evaluation of primary health care interventions: case study of the Australian Indigenous population
... the health economics perspective is ...to health services, a cost-side equity weight for use in the eco- nomic evaluation of primary health care programs is then proposed, which we suggest overcomes ...
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Perceptions about Equity in Public Health: A comparison between frontline staff and informing policy in Ontario
... of health equity in public health, however upon further examination of the literature it can be found that many use the terms health disparity, health inequality, and health ...
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Argument for Inclusion of Strongyloidiasis in the Australian National Notifiable Disease List
... government health system, and been detrimental to the Australian people’s ...National Health Security Act 2007 ...Indigenous health, and closing the health inequity gap between ...
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Regional health-care inequity in children’s survival in Zhejiang Province, China
... Health inequity between children from migrant population and local registry has become a big chal- lenge to public health in ...healthcare inequity re- main in the following areas: 1) lack of ...
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Primary care priorities in addressing health equity: summary of the WONCA 2013 health equity workshop
... reduce health inequity as moderate (mean: ...public health programs to promote health equity (mean: ...promote health equity (mean: 2.12, SD: 0.99); promoting research on health ...
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Analysing horizontal equity in enrolment in Disease Management Programmes for coronary heart disease in Germany 2008–2010
... or inequity in DMP- CHD enrolment can be generalised to Saarland but not necessarily to Germany as a ...in health services utilisa- tion on a routine ...
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Changes in health care inequity in Brazil between 2008 and 2013
... poor health increased significantly from 2008 (29 %) to 2013 (32 %), as did reporting of chronic diseases (from 32 to 35 ...to health issues decreased ...Family Health Strategy was reported by nearly ...
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