Consumer participation: The challenges to achieving influence and equity

Challenges and Requirements for Achieving Equity in Health in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Challenges and Requirements for Achieving Equity in Health in the Islamic Republic of Iran Behzad Damari 1, Farima Minaee 2, Sahand Riazi-Isfahani 3 * 1 Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2 Community Medicine Specialist 3 Department of Social Determinants of Health, National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,...

Challenges in Healthcare in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Communication as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity

The Many Roads toward Achieving Health Equity.

This special issue of the Journal is devoted to understanding the many roads that lead toward achieving health equity. The eleven articles in the issue portray an America that is struggling with the clash between its historical ideal of pursuing equality for all and its ambivalence toward achieving equity in all social domains, especially health. Organized in five sections, the issue contains a...

Achieving equity in the Australian healthcare system.

A WORKSHOP of healthcare service managers sponsored by the King's Fund of London. Participants included such managers and the odd academic from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We were discussing resource allocation, and frustration mounted during the first 2 days. Ideologically , participants had divided into two teams — the US and the Rest. On the thir...

The Role of the WTO in Achieving Equity and Efficiency