Lim, Daniel Yan Zheng Wong, Ting Hway Feng, Mengling Ong, Marcus Eng Hock Ho, Andrew Fu Wah
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important determinant of health, and SES data is an important confounder to control for in epidemiology and health services research. Individual level SES measures are cumbersome to collect and susceptible to biases, while area level SES measures may have insufficient granularity. The ‘Singapore Housing I...
León-Giraldo, Sebastián Cuervo-Sánchez, Juan Sebastián Casas, Germán González-Uribe, Catalina Kreif, Noemi Bernal, Oscar Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background The present study analyzes inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures in conflict-affected regions of Meta, Colombia and socioeconomic factors contributing to the existence and changes in catastrophic expenditures before and after the sign of Colombian Peace Agreement with FARC-EP guerilla group in 2016. Methods The study uses the ...
Wang, Kailu Law, Chi-Kin Zhao, Jiaying Hui, Alvin Yik-Kiu Yip, Benjamin Hon-Kei Yeoh, Eng Kiong Chung, Roger Yat-Nork
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background The small-area deprivation indices are varied across countries due to different social context and data availability. Due to lack of chronic disease-related social deprivation index (SDI) in Hong Kong, China, this study aimed to develop a new SDI and examine its association with cancer mortality. Methods A total of 14 socio-economic vari...
Barboza, Madelene Marttila, Anneli Burström, Bo Kulane, Asli
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Background Lack of control over life situations is an important social determinant that may negatively affect parental and child health. This study took place in an area of Stockholm, Sweden with high indications of socioeconomic disadvantage, a large part of the population with foreign background, as well as higher levels of poor health than the c...
Wyper, Grant M. A. Fletcher, Eilidh Grant, Ian Harding, Oliver de Haro Moro, Maria Teresa Stockton, Diane L. McCartney, Gerry
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background COVID-19 has caused almost unprecedented change across health, education, the economy and social interaction. It is widely understood that the existing mechanisms which shape health inequalities have resulted in COVID-19 outcomes following this same, familiar, pattern. Our aim was to estimate inequalities in the population health impact ...
Wang, Linan Chen, Yuqian
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background During the past four decades, China’s total health expenditure and health expenditure per capita have both experienced a dramatic increase in growth rate. This study aims to explore the determinants of health expenditure growth and the influencing mechanism of these determinants, with considering the productivity efficiency represented b...
Massi, Luciana Hickey, Sophie Maidment, Sarah-Jade Roe, Yvette Kildea, Sue Nelson, Carmel Kruske, Sue
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background The Australian Nurse Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) is an evidence-based, home visiting program that offers health education, guidance, social and emotional support to first-time mothers having Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) babies. The community-controlled sector identified the need for specialised support ...
De Prez, Vincent Jolidon, Vladimir Willems, Barbara Cullati, Stéphane Burton-Jeangros, Claudine Bracke, Piet
Background While organized and opportunistic cervical cancer screening (CCS) programs implemented across the European Union have increased participation rates, barriers to socioeconomically deprived women remain substantial, implying high levels of inequality in CCS uptake. Aim This study assesses how the screening strategy (as a score based on the...
Scanlon, Michael L. Maldonado, Lauren Y. Ikemeri, Justus E. Jumah, Anjellah Anusu, Getrude Chelagat, Sheilah Keter, Joann Chebet Songok, Julia Ruhl, Laura J. Christoffersen-Deb, Astrid
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International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Health care workers in Kenya have launched major strikes in the public health sector in the past decade but the impact of strikes on health systems is under-explored. We conducted a qualitative study to investigate maternal and child health care and services during nationwide strikes by health care workers in 2017 from the perspective of...
Bertram, Maja Brandt, Urs Steiner Hansen, Rikke Klitten Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard
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Background Does higher health literacy lead to higher trust in public hospitals? Existing literature suggests that this is the case since a positive association between the level of health literacy and the level of trust in physicians and the health care system has been shown. This study aims to challenge this assumption. Methods Based on theoretic...
