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BMC Public HealthBackground This study aimed to investigate the utilization rate and equity of health examination service among the middle-aged and elderly population in China from 2011 to 2018.
Min Su +4 more
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Partial Horizontal Inequity Orderings: A Non‐parametric Approach* [PDF]
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2005 AbstractWe provide a partial ordering view of horizontal inequity (HI), based on the Lorenz criterion, associated with different post‐tax income distributions and a (bistochastic) non‐parametric estimated benchmark distribution. As a consequence, several measures consistent with the Lorenz criterion can be rationalized. In addition, we establish the so‐
Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel +2 more
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International Journal of Digital EarthEvaluating the inequity of healthcare accessibility across demographic groups in the post-COVID era is of critical importance for an aging society like Japan – it helps to achieve better social equity via distributing healthcare resources in health ...
Siqin Wang, Yukio Sadahiro
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Horizontal equity in health care utilization in Brazil, 1998–2008
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2012 Introduction This study assesses trends in horizontal equity in the utilization of healthcare services from 1998 to 2008--a period of major economic and social change in Brazil.
Macinko James, Lima-Costa Maria
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Aging and the chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) challenge the Chinese government in the process of providing hospitalization services fairly and reasonably.
Xian-zhi Fu +6 more
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Horizontal Inequalities in Africa
Review of Income and WealthWe estimate horizontal inequality across the African continent over time based on four identity cleavages—location, ethnicity, gender, and religion—and four well‐being indicators—education, asset ownership, child nutrition, and under‐five survival. Improvements in social indicators over the last 25 years appear to be equalizing, with a decline in most ...
Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi +3 more
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Horizontal Inequality: Two Types of Trap
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2009 Numerous issues arise in defining inequality: Inequality among whom? Inequality of what? And inequality over what time period?
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health care utilisation in Norway: the population-based HUNT3 survey
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2012 Background In this study we investigated the distribution of self-reported health care utilisation by education and household income in a county population in Norway, in a universal public health care system based on ideals of equal access for all ...
Vikum Eirik +2 more
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Horizontal Inequality in Rationing by Waiting Lists
International Journal of Health Services, 2014 The objective of this article was to investigate the existence of horizontal inequality in access to care for six categories of elective surgery in a publicly funded system, when care is rationed through waiting lists. Administrative waiting time data on all elective surgeries (n = 4,634) performed in östergötland, Sweden, in 2007 were linked to ...
Tinghög, Gustav +3 more
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Horizontal Inequity in the Utilization of Maternal and Reproductive Health Services: Evidence From the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. [PDF]
Front Health Serv, 2022 Aregbeshola BS, Olaniyan O.
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