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Global Public HealthFamily planning (FP) education is essential in many sub-Saharan African countries, where there is a high unsatisfied demand for FP despite its availability at healthcare facilities free of charge.
Hajirah Gumanneh +9 more
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in COVID-19 Vaccination and Infection in Adults, Catalonia, Spain
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout on socioeconomic COVID-19–related inequalities is scarce. We analyzed associations between socioeconomic deprivation index (SDI) and COVID-19 vaccination, infection, and hospitalization before and ...
Elena Roel +5 more
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Improving Diversity in Recruitment: Lessons Learned During the REACH Pregnancy Circles Pilot Trial
Health ExpectationsIntroduction Our ability to address inequities in health outcomes is hampered by the under‐representation of underserved groups in research. Research exploring this topic has focused on observational studies in the American context.
Octavia Wiseman +10 more
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Parallel systems in healthcare: Addressing Indigenous health equity in Canada
Global Public HealthThe Canadian public healthcare system faces significant challenges in performance. While the formal healthcare system addresses funding, access and policy, there is a critical need to prioritise the informal system of community-oriented networks.
Anika Sehgal +3 more
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Inégalités écologiques : analyse spatiale des impacts générés et subis par les ménages belges
Espace populations sociétés, 2008 The aim of the paper is to explore methodologies for exhibiting ecological inequalities on a given area. It begins with a definition of ecological inequality in order to make this notion operative for statistical and cartographical processes.
Joël Dozzi +2 more
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Global Public HealthGender-based violence (GBV) in Papua New Guinea has resulted in the country's recognition as one of the most dangerous places on the planet for women to live [Human Rights Watch. (2017). Papua New Guinea: Events of 2016. World Report. https://www.hrw.org/
Karen O’Reilly, Jane L. Fowler
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Provincial inequalities in Iran: A comprehensive planning model for budget allocation
Town and Regional PlanningAlthough regional disparities were declining in Iran between 2001-2013, the provincial allocation of budgetary resources in Iran is not done fairly. The absence of a clear model for optimal budget distribution hinders achieving regional balance between ...
Nima Bayramzadeh +2 more
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Optimal inflation to reduce inequality [PDF]
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016 Abstract A popular argument in favor of price stability is that the inflation-tax burden would disproportionately fall on the poor because wealth is unevenly distributed and portfolio composition of poorer households is skewed towards a larger share of money holdings.
Menna, L, Tirelli, P
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Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper analyzes the effect of changes in the structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981–2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in observed income, but has a significantly smaller ...
Sabirianova Peter, Klara, Duncan, Denvil
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36-year trends in educational inequalities in self-rated health among Finnish adults
SSM: Population Health, 2019 Health inequalities exist across countries and populations, but little is known about their long-term trends and even less about factors shaping the trends.
Eero Lahelma +4 more
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