Nursing science and practice focus on health promotion, disease prevention, supporting across the trajectory of acute chronic conditions, including palliative end-of-life care. We include individuals, families, communities lifespan who are diverse in many ways often suffer from inequities associated with multi-level social environmental factors, racism. The National Institute Research others ha...

We apply the theory of inequality in opportunity to measure inequity in mortality. Our empirical work is based on a rich dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking information about mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that distinguishing between different channels via which mortality is affected is necessary to test the sensitivity of the results with respect to different nor...

BACKGROUND One strategic approach available to policy makers to improve the availability of reproductive and child health care supplies and services as well as the sustainability of programs is to expand the role of the private sector in providing these services. However, critics of this approach argue that increased reliance on the private sector will not serve the needs of the poor, and could...

OBJECTIVE Identifying inequity in gaining access to and financing health service attention in Bogotá. METHODS The 2003 Quality of Life and Health Survey for Bogotá was analysed. Socioeconomic, needs, access to health services and financing them were identified as variables. A descriptive and bivariate analysis was done, variables were re-codified and scenarios were created combining variables...