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Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Development Studies, 2017
This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and, if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities. Nevertheless, there are risks that legal empowerment might contribute to a strengthening of group identities, reduction of social cohesion ...
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Health equity in an unequal country: the use of medical services in Chile

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2012
Introduction A recent health reform was implemented in Chile (the AUGE reform) with the objective of reducing the socioeconomic gaps to access healthcare.
Paraje Guillermo, Vásquez Felipe
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Effect of China’s maternal health policy on improving rural hospital delivery: Evidence from two cross-sectional surveys

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2018
This population-based cross-sectional study aims to explore the effect of China’s Rural Hospital Delivery Subsidy (RHDS) policy on the utilization of women’s hospital delivery between rural and urban areas.
Xiaojing Fan   +6 more
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Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Current thinking about development places individuals firmly at the centre of concern for analysis and policy. This paper explores why groups are important for individual welfare and social stability, and argues that horizontal inequalities (i.e. inequalities between culturally formed groups) is a very important but neglected dimension of development ...
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Socio-economic inequality and inequity in use of health care services in Kenya: evidence from the fourth Kenya household health expenditure and utilization survey

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Kenya is experiencing persistently high levels of inequity in health and access to care services. In 2018, decades of sustained policy efforts to promote equitable, affordable and quality health services have culminated in the launch of a ...
Stefania Ilinca   +3 more
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Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The design of policies towards countries where major conflicts have ended is becoming a major issue in the development agenda, partly because of the numbers of countries where such policy is relevant and partly because their situation tends to be among the most desperate.
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Horizontal Inequity in Access to Health Care in Four South American Cities.

open access: yesRevista de Economía del Rosario, 2011
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el grado de inequidad socioeconómica en el uso de servicios médicos de la población adulta mayor en cinco ciudades latinoamericanas (Buenos Aires, Ciudad d eMéxico, Santiago de Chile, San Pablo y Montevideo), en ...
Ana I. Balsa   +2 more
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