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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

A cost-based equity weight for use in the economic evaluation of primary health care interventions: case study of the Australian Indigenous population

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2009
Background Efficiency and equity are both important policy objectives in resource allocation. The discipline of health economics has traditionally focused on maximising efficiency, however addressing inequities in health also requires consideration ...
Anderson Ian, Kelaher Margaret, Ong Katherine S, Carter Rob   +3 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

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

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

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

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

“We Cannot Talk as a Family”: Complexities of Survivorship Communication Among Hispanic/Latino Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer, Parents, and Clinicians

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu, Nicole Fernández‐Viña, Briana C. Martin‐Villa, Daniela Ramirez, Rebecca M. Lewinsohn, Mary Smith, Heidi Boynton, Lidia Schapira, Stephanie M. Smith   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vertical equity of healthcare in Taiwan: health services were distributed according to need

, 2013
[[abstract]]Introduction To test the hypothesis that the distribution of healthcare services is according to health need can be achieved under a rather open access system.
王秀英;Wang, Shiow-Ing;楊志良;Yaung, Chih-Liang, Wang, SI;Yaung, CL   +1 more
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China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme and equity in access to health care: evidence from a longitudinal household survey. [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was brought to life in 2003 in response to the deterioration in access to health services in rural areas.
Wei Yang, Yang, Wei, Yang, Wei; id_orcid
core   +1 more source