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Inequalities in public health care delivery in Zambia [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Access to adequate health services that is of acceptable quality is important in the move towards universal health coverage. However, previous studies have revealed inequities in health care utilisation in the favour of the rich.
Phiri, Jane, Jane Phiri, Ataguba, John E, John E Ataguba   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Horizontal inequity in access to health care in four South American cities [PDF]

This paper analyzes and compares socioeconomic inequalities in the use of healthcare services by the elderly in four South-American cities: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Montevideo (Uruguay) and San Pablo (Brazil).
Máximo Rossi, Patricia Triunfo, Ana I. Balsa   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Care for ill-housed persons: access and professional proactivity in primary care [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to understand access to primary care for ill-housed persons and professional proactivity in municipalities without a Street Outreach Office.
Lucas Alves Gontijo, Bruna Moreira da Silva, Marcelo Pedra Martins Machado, Daniela Priscila Oliveira do Vale Tafner, Edilene Aparecida Araújo da Silveira, Valéria Conceição de Oliveira, Eliete Albano de Azevedo Guimarães, Selma Maria da Fonseca Viegas   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal health services equity between reality and imposed in Zagazig district, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt (2015/2016) [PDF]

The Egyptian Family Medicine Journal, 2017
Background: Equity is an ethical concept. Equity in healthcare includes equal access to available care for equal need, and equal quality of care for all.
Hala M. Shaheen MD, Aml A. Salama MD, Hanaa S. Said M.SC, Taghreed M. Farahat MD   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

AcceSS and Equity in Transplantation (ASSET) New Zealand: Protocol for population-wide data linkage platform to investigate equity in access to kidney failure health services in New Zealand.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundKidney transplantation is considered the ideal treatment for most people with kidney failure, conferring both survival and quality of life advantages, and is more cost effective than dialysis.
Rachel B Cutting, Angela C Webster, Nicholas B Cross, Heather Dunckley, Ben Beaglehole, Ian Dittmer, John Irvine, Curtis Walker, Merryn Jones, Melanie Wyld, Patrick J Kelly, Kate Wyburn, Nicole L De La Mata   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying technology industry-led initiatives to address digital health equity

Digital Health, 2021
Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted various barriers to health and the necessity of having access to digital health services. The technology industry can support addressing health barriers, promoting health equity and partnering with ...
Keri Durocher, Navi Boparai, Damian Jankowicz, Gillian Strudwick   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reducing avoidable inequalities in health: a new criterion for setting health care capitation payments [PDF]

, 2002
Traditionally, most health care systems which pretend to any sort of rationality and cost control have sought to allocate their limited funds in order to secure equal opportunity of access for equal need.
Katharina Hauck, Hauck, K., Shaw, R., Smith, P.C., Peter C. Smith, Rebecca Shaw   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Is healthcare really equal for all? Assessing the horizontal and vertical equity in healthcare utilisation among older Ghanaians

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Background There is a lack of focused research on the older population in Ghana and about issues pertaining to their access to healthcare services. Furthermore, information is lacking regarding the fairness in the access to these services.
Vincent Dei, Miguel San Sebastian
doaj   +1 more source

Examining equity in a void of evidence - Pharmacist minor ailments services and the role of systematic reviews

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022
Pharmacist minor ailment services (PMAS) are formalised services which remunerate pharmacists for delivering care and providing medicines used to treat minor ailments such as hayfever, musculoskeletal pain, head lice and constipation.
Joanna Hikaka, Robert Haua
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing Stroke Clinical Trials Using Community Engagement and Implementation Science Approaches

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stroke clinical trials are essential for advancing stroke care but can face challenges with recruitment, retention, clinical relevance, and translation into real‐world practice. We propose that integrating community engagement and implementation science approaches into stroke trials can help address these needs.
Lesli E. Skolarus, Devin L. Brown, Bernadette Boden‐Albala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source