نتایج جستجو برای: inequity in health

تعداد نتایج: 17143754  

Journal: :Health affairs 2002
Mariana Barraza-Lloréns Stefano Bertozzi Eduardo González-Pier Juan Pablo Gutiérrez

Despite the fact that life expectancy at birth in Mexico has improved from forty-two years in 1940 to seventy-three in 2000, major inequalities persist in health and access to health care. The Mexican health care system has evolved into a series of disjointed subsystems that are incapable of delivering universal health insurance. Without greatly restructuring the way health care is financed, pe...

2014
Efrat Shadmi William CW Wong Karen Kinder Iona Heath Michael Kidd

BACKGROUND Research consistently shows that gaps in health and health care persist, and are even widening. While the strength of a country's primary health care system and its primary care attributes significantly improves populations' health and reduces inequity (differences in health and health care that are unfair and unjust), many areas, such as inequity reduction through the provision of h...

Journal: :Pediatrics 2010
Jay G Berry Sheila Bloom Susan Foley Judith S Palfrey

BACKGROUND Over the last decades, there have been great advances in health care delivered to children with chronic conditions, but not all children have benefitted equally from them. OBJECTIVES To describe health inequities experienced by children with chronic health conditions. METHODS We performed a literature review of English-language studies identified from the Medline, Centers for Dis...

Journal: :Journal of health economics 2012
Ellen Van de Poel Eddy Van Doorslaer Owen O'Donnell

We propose a method of measuring and decomposing inequity in health care utilisation that allows for heterogeneity in the use-need relationship. This makes explicit inequity that derives from unequal treatment response to variation in need, as well as that due to differential effects of non-need determinants. Under plausible conditions concerning heterogeneity in the use-need relationship and t...

2017
Eliana Barrenho Marisa Miraldo Mujaheed Shaikh Rifat Atun

Background International and domestic funding for malaria is critically important to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Its equitable distribution is key in ensuring that the available, scarce, resources are deployed efficiently for improved progress and a sustained response that enables eradication. Methods We used concentration curves and concentration indices to assess inequalities...

Journal: :bulletin of emergency and trauma 0
faranak sherafati school of health, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht,iran enayatollah homaie-rad road trauma research center, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht,iran abolhassan afkar school of health, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht,iran ramin gholampoor sigaroodi school of health, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht,iran soheil sirusbakht school of health, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht,iran

objectives: to investigate the differences in death after receiving emergency services in traffic accidents between urban and rural regions, and decompose factors of the gap in langerood, northern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in langrood, northern iran during a 1-year period from 2013 to 2014. the hospital data of traffic crashes were used. data contained those patien...

Journal: :Journal of Population and Social Studies 2017

Journal: :Journal of health economics 1991
A Wagstaff E van Doorslaer P Paci

This paper offers a critical appraisal of the various methods used to date to investigate inequity in the delivery of health care. It concludes that none of the methods used to date is particularly well equipped to provide unbiassed estimates of the extent of inequity. It also concludes that Le Grand's (1978) approach is likely to point towards inequity favouring the rich even when none exists....

Journal: :Revista de salud publica 2008
Javier Eslava-Schmalbach Gilberto Barón Hernando Gaitán-Duarte Helman Alfonso Carlos Agudelo Carolina Sánchez

OBJECTIVE An economic analysis of cost-equity (from society's viewpoint) for evaluating the impact of Law 100/93 in Colombia between 1998 and 2005. METHODOLOGY An economic analysis compared costs and equity in health in Colombia between 1998 and 2005. Data was taken from the Colombian Statistics' Administration Department ( Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica - DANE) and from ...

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