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Household Income Relationship With Health Services Utilization and Healthcare Expenditures in People Aged 75 Years or Older in Japan: A Population-Based Study Using Medical and Long-term Care Insurance Claims Data

Journal of Epidemiology, 2019
Background: This study aimed to determine whether there are disparities in healthcare services utilization according to household income among people aged 75 years or older in Japan.
Shota Hamada, Hideto Takahashi, Nobuo Sakata, Boyoung Jeon, Takahiro Mori, Katsuya Iijima, Satoru Yoshie, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Nanako Tamiya   +8 more
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On Inequity Aversion - A Reply to Binmore and Shaked [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper we reply to Binmore and Shaked’s criticism of the Fehr-Schmidt model of inequity aversion. We put the theory and their arguments into perspective and show that their criticism is not substantiated.
Fehr, Ernst, Schmidt, Klaus M.
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Disposable Black excellence: A book review of Sekile M. Nzinga’s Lean semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity

The Professional Educator, 2022
Although Black women’s graduate degree attainment has nearly doubled since 2000, Sekile M. Nzinga’s Lean Semesters provides a complex picture into this social reality in academia, with the central argument that American higher education operates as a ...
Paris Wicker
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Inequity aversion, mandates, and the provision of public goods

, 2023
Kecinski, MaikPrevious research has shown that individuals have preferences for equity that deviate from traditional payoff maximizing economic theory.
Johnson, Caroline
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An Intersectional Approach to Equity, Inequity, and Archaeology [PDF]

, 2022
The year 2020 was an awakening for some. For others, it reiterated the persistent social injustice in the United States. Compelled by these events, 30 diverse individuals came together from January to May 2021 for a semester-long seminar exploring ...
Gutierrez, Maria Amelia, Herr, Sarah, Barnes, Monica, Rivera Prince, Jordi A., Leclerc, Elizabeth L., Sandweiss, Daniel H., Maasch, Kirk A., Brough, Jason A., Brasil, Kareen Kristina, Blackwood, Emily M., Landázuri, Heather A.   +10 more
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Inequity in awareness and utilization of adolescent reproductive and sexual health services in union territory, Chandigarh, North India

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2015
Background: Adolescents are a heterogeneous, vulnerable, and sexually active group. Geographical and educational health disparities exist among urban, rural, and slum adolescents and among out-of-school and school-going adolescents, respectively ...
Madhu Gupta, Nidhi Bhatnagar, Pankaj Bahugana   +2 more
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Homophily and Social Norms in Experimental Network Formation Games

Games, 2018
Field studies of networks have uncovered a preference to befriend people we perceive as similar according to some dimensions of our identity (“homophily”).
Jasmina Arifovic, Giuseppe Danese
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Experiences of Gender Inequity Among Women Physicians Across Career Stages: Findings from Participant Focus Groups

Women's Health Reports, 2022
Background and Purpose: Gender inequity in academic medicine persists despite efforts to the contrary. Even with increasing representation of women physicians in academic medicine, leadership positions and promotion to tenure are still not representative.
Sherry S. Chesak, Manisha Salinas, Helayna Abraham, Courtney E. Harris, Elise C. Carey, Tejinder Khalsa, Karen F. Mauck, Molly Feely, Lauren Licatino, Susan Moeschler, Anjali Bhagra   +10 more
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Nutritional Status of Under-5 Children in Migrant Laborer Settlements of Ernakulam District, Kerala, Southern India – A Mixed Method Study

Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Background: To assess the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in migrant laborer settlements and their utilization of Integrated Child Development Scheme services in Ernakulam district, Kerala.
Renjini B. Ambika, Sobha George, Jeby Jose Olickal, Akhil X. Manuel, Rakesh P. Suseela   +4 more
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Inequities in obesity: Indigenous, culturally and linguistically diverse, and disability perspectives

Public Health Research & Practice, 2022
Population groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CALD) experience health inequity and resulting disparities in disease rates.
Ray Kelly , Kostas Hatzikiriakidis, Konsita Kuswara   +2 more
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