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Community-based intervention to reach the last mile of childhood vaccination coverage in Burera district, Rwanda: a mixed method study

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Vaccination remains one of the most cost-effective interventions for reducing childhood morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Michee Nshimayesu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global health equity

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2004
A physician describes his work with Partners in Health and his public health advocacy work in Haiti and encourages physicians to take health care equity to the global arena. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Paul E, Farmer   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Health systems performance in sub-Saharan Africa: Governance, outcome and equity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Copyright @ 2011 Olafsdottir et al.BACKGROUND: The literature on health systems focuses largely on the performance of healthcare systems operationalised around indicators such as hospital beds, maternity care and immunisation coverage.
Olafsdottir, Anna E   +16 more
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Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence-based universal health coverage interventions delivery in infectious disease of poverty elimination and eradication

open access: yesInfectious Diseases of Poverty
The recent 78th United Natiions General Assembly (UNGA) declaration relaunched a new health priority and political commitment in accelerating Universal Health Coverage (UHC), adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 and are intended to be met by 2030 ...
Ernest Tambo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Equity and health [PDF]

open access: yesПрикладная эконометрика, 2007
This article raises the problem of equity in the health system in Switzerland. Three dimensions of the concept of equity are taken into consideration: the inequality in the financing of the health system, the inequality in the distribution of the state of good health, and, finally, the iniquity in the access to health care.
openaire   +1 more source

Health Care Use Among Patients Presenting to Emergency Department for Gout Flares in Ontario, Canada: A Population‐Based Health Systems Analysis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We characterized emergency department (ED) gout visits and identified patient characteristics and health services patterns contributing to ED presentations. Methods We conducted a population‐based study of ED gout visits in Ontario, Canada, between 2014 and 2023.
Timothy S. H. Kwok   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

“An eye-opener:” a qualitative study of a liberal arts approach to medical education

open access: yesBMC Medical Education
Background Medical educators have underscored the need for medical students to study the larger sociocultural and economic forces that influence health rather than simply basic and clinical sciences; however, previous studies have not evaluated the ...
Abebe Bekele   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the medical determinants and health service needs of older people who experience loneliness in Sydney, Australia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: In Australia there has been a sharp increase in the proportion of older people who live alone. Living alone increases the risk of being socially isolated or experiencing loneliness.
Lou-Anne Blunden   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic inequality in mental well-being associated with COVID-19 containment measures in a low-incidence Asian globalized city

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes and amplifies pre-existing inequalities even in places with relatively well-controlled outbreaks such as Hong Kong. This study aimed to explore whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged fare worse via various types of ...
Roger Yat-Nork Chung   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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