Equity in vision in Australia is in sight.

Community Health Worker Programs to Improve Healthcare Access and Equity: Are They Only Relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Background Community Health Workers (CHWs) are proven to be highly effective in low- and middle-income countries with many examples of successful large-scale programs. There is growing interest in deploying CHW programs in high-income countries to address inequity in healthcare access and outcomes amongst population groups facing disadvantage. This study is the first that examines the scope and...

Power, Process and Context in Theory Based Evaluation of Policy Implementation: A Response to Recent Commentaries

A Survey of Commentators` Views in Commenting the Verses Containing the Demand of Observing God

In some of the verses containing some people`s demand of the sight of God, such as verses 55 of Baqarah, 153 Nisa` and 143 A`raf, a group of the children of Israel and the prophet Moses (as) requested the sight of God. Whether the demand has been form the prophet Moses (as) himself or from the children of Israel, and given the latter, whether the demanded vision has been a visual or a non-visua...

Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia

Background The importance of evaluating policy processes to achieve health equity is well recognised but such evaluation encounters methodological, theoretical and political challenges. This paper describes how a program theorybased evaluation framework can be developed and tested, using the example of an evaluation of the South Australian Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative.   Methods A f...

Addressing Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health: A Global Review of Policy Outcome Evaluation Methods

Background Epidemiological evidence on the social determinants of health inequity is well-advanced, but considerably less attention has been given to evaluating the impact of public policies addressing those social determinants. Methodological challenges to produce evidence on policy outcomes present a significant barrier to mobilising policy actions for health equities. This review aims to exa...