Equitable healthcare requires equitable access to nature

Equitable access to scientific and technical information for health.

1 Editor, Bulletin. Hippocrates equated scientific truth with mystical knowledge which should be revealed only to the initiated (1). In current thinking, however, scientific and technical information is seen as an archetypal global public good which should be freely available for the benefit of all (2). With traditional printed publication, the wide dissemination of this information through aca...

Financing equitable access to antiretroviral treatment in South Africa

BACKGROUND While South Africa spends approximately 7.4% of GDP on healthcare, only 43% of these funds are spent in the public system, which is tasked with the provision of care to the majority of the population including a large proportion of those in need of antiretroviral treatment (ART). South Africa is currently debating the introduction of a National Health Insurance (NHI) system. Because ...

Do general practices provide equitable access to physical activity interventions?

BACKGROUND Exercise referral schemes are widespread across England. National guidance emphasises the need to engage groups that are disadvantaged. AIM To examine the influence of socioeconomic deprivation on referral to, and use of, exercise referral schemes. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-sectional analysis of patients referred by general practices to exercise referral schemes between 2004 and 2006...

k-equitable mean labeling

Epidemic Outbreaks in Networks with Equitable or Almost-Equitable Partitions

We study the diffusion of epidemics on networks that are partitioned into local communities. The gross structure of hierarchical networks of this kind can be described by a quotient graph. The rationale of this approach is that individuals infect those belonging to the same community with higher probability than individuals in other communities. In community models the nodal infection probabili...