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Health Inequalities in Europe: Setting the Stage for Progressive Policy Action [PDF]

, 2018
While the health of Europeans has improved over recent years, differences by gender, birthplace, and/or socioeconomic background persist. This report maps the extent of such health inequalities, its determinants, and costs to society.
Bambra, Clare, Forster, Timon, Kentikelenis, Alexander   +2 more
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Inequality of health [PDF]

BMJ, 1994
EDITOR, - Peter Phillimore and colleagues described at widening gap in the mortality ratios between the most and least deprived electoral wards in the Northern region.1 Both groups of wards showed a fall in mortality from 1981 to 1991, but the fall was greater in the richer wards.
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Health inequalities and development plans in Iran: An analysis of the past three decades (1984–2010) [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction: Reducing inequalities in health care is one of the main challenges in all countries. In Iran as in other oil-exporting upper middle income countries, we expected to witness fewer inequalities especially in the health sector with the ...
Driessen, J, Gallego, G, Ghasemi, M, Trujillo, A, Zare, H   +4 more
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Health equity monitoring is essential in public health: lessons from Mozambique

Globalization and Health, 2019
Background Countries must be able to describe and monitor their populations health and well-being needs in an attempt to understand and address them. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have re-emphasized the need to invest in comprehensive health ...
Alba Llop-Gironés, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Sergio Chicumbe, Francesc Alvarez, Ivan Zahinos, Elisio Mazive, Joan Benach   +6 more
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Employment and working conditions of nurses: where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Human Resources for Health, 2021
Background Nurses and midwives play a critical role in the provision of care and the optimization of health services resources worldwide, which is particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, they can only provide quality services
Alba Llop-Gironés, Ana Vračar, Gisela Llop-Gironés, Joan Benach, Livia Angeli-Silva, Lucero Jaimez, Pramila Thapa, Ramesh Bhatta, Santosh Mahindrakar, Sara Bontempo Scavo, Sonia Nar Devi, Susana Barria, Susana Marcos Alonso, Mireia Julià   +13 more
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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.
Acheson, Andersson, Carr-Hill, Croxson, Culyer, Culyer, Culyer, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Security, Department of Health and Social Services, Goddard, Gordon, Häkkinen, Lindholm, Mooney, NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Pampalon, Pereira, Resource Allocation Working Party, Rice, Royston, Scottish Executive Health Department, Shmueli, Smith, Sutton, Wagstaff, Welsh Office, Whynes, Williams, Williams   +30 more
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Psychosocial and material pathways in the relation between income and health: a response to Lynch et al [PDF]

, 2001
Summary points: Economic and social circumstances affect health through the physiological effects of their emotional and social meanings and the direct effects of material circumstances.
Marmot, M., Wilkinson, R.G.
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Certificate of need laws: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Certificate of Need (CON) laws, currently in place in 35 US states, require certain health care providers to obtain a certification of their economic necessity from a state board before opening or undertaking a major expansion.
Christopher J. Conover, James Bailey
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Defining health and health inequalities [PDF]

Public Health, 2019
To examine existing definitions of health and health inequalities and to synthesise the most useful of these using explicit rationale and the most parsimonious text.Literature review and synthesis.Existing definitions of health and health inequalities were identified, and their normative properties were extracted and then critically appraised.
McCartney, G., Popham, F., McMaster, R., Cumbers, A.   +3 more
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A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2020
Background Despite increasing evidence on health inequalities over the past decades, further efforts to strengthen capacities to produce research on this topic are still urgently needed to inform effective interventions aiming to address these ...
Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Matthew Harris, Germán Guerra, Joan Benach   +3 more
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