Despite improvements in oral health status and clear links between oral and systemic health, oral health is not accorded the same importance in health care policy as is general health. This review of oral health disparities over the life span documents the results of this inequity. Dental concerns and unmet dental treatment needs, especially among vulnerable populations, are not well addressed ...

Social capital includes volume and quality of relations between human beings, which can facilitate cooperation between them. Based on numerous studies about development in the different world countries from 1988, it has been specified that social capital has an important role on development and progress of societies (1). For better understanding of social capital and its effects on society heal...

ii Abstract Anupama Manchikanti Gomez: Intersections of Gender Equity, Intimate Partner Violence and Relationship Dynamics among Brazilian Youth (Under the direction of Ilene Speizer) Background: Growing evidence indicates that support for gender inequity is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) and adverse reproductive health. Gender equity is important for youth, as the relationsh...

BACKGROUND Health equity is considered as one of the main objectives of health care systems. This study was carried out with the aim of determining health equity indicators in Iran. Through consideration of these indicators, differences in health status of different social groups and different geographical areas can be shown in different periods and based on that, effective interventions can be...

Humans and various nonhuman primates respond negatively to inequity not in their favor (i.e., inequity aversion), when inequity between two individuals is introduced. Common marmosets, a highly prosocial species, further discriminated between human actors who reciprocated in social exchanges, and those who did not. Conversely, marmoset models of autism, induced via prenatal exposure to valproic...

Dental caries is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in Indonesia. More than half of all cases are left untreated. This may be due to inequity in the use of dental care that is caused by economic and geographic barriers. Therefore, the objective of this study was to provide evidence of socioeconomic-related inequality and horizontal inequity in dental care utilization among Indonesian...

BACKGROUND The pursuit of equity in health and healthcare has been the key feature of health policy in India. However, despite the policy significance, the volume of literature available on this issue is scarce. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to examine the horizontal inequities in healthcare utilization, consisting of outpatient and inpatient care in 15 major states and north-eastern regi...

Research using economic games has demonstrated that adults are willing to sacrifice rewards in order to prevent inequity both when they receive less than a social partner (disadvantageous inequity) and when they receive more (advantageous inequity). We investigated the development of both forms of inequity aversion in 4- to 8-year-olds using a novel economic game in which children could accept ...