There were also examples of an openness to the fact that inequity existed and a willingness to learn and prevent it, as well as an already high awareness of inequity in healthcare. A conceptual model was developed in which the four concepts were divided into two qualitatively different blocks,...
Prominent examples of such research efforts are presented, but, unfortunately, there are few reliable and systematic data from this kind of study. Health care researchers have a special responsibility towards the population at large to undertake qualified research on equity and to communicate the ...
birthing individual, to prevent complications of pregnancy and to ensure the wellbeing of the birthing individual and infant following birth [17,22,23]. Examples of these services include, but are not limited to, visiting a healthcare professional or community health worker in person or through v...
Examples of these services include, but are not limited to, visiting a healthcare professional or community health worker in person or through virtual care for a physical exam, a fetal ultrasound, prenatal genetic testing or screening, gestational diabetes screening, birth planning, nutrition, ...
The economic crisis brought an unprecedented attention to the issue of health system sustainability in the developed world. The discussion, however, has been mainly limited to “traditional” issues of cost-effectiveness, quality of care, and, lately, pa
A study of Iranian immigrants' experiences of accessing Canadian health care ... M Dastjerdi,K Olson,L Ogilvie - 《International Journal for Equity in Health》 被引量: 22发表: 2012年 Addressing poverty through disease control programmes: examples from Tuberculosis control in India International ...
Achieving health equity requires leaders to intentionally and deliberately design and build systems that advance health equity as an outcome. To do this, they should root out racism both within and outside the health care system to break the vicious cycle of inequity that stands in the way of ...
Therefore, we sought to find out whether health services in New Zealand were equitable by measuring the level of development of components of chronic care management systems across district health boards. Variation in provision by geography, condition or ethnicity can be interpreted as inequitable. ...
Despite a publicly-funded healthcare system, alarming cancer-related health and healthcare inequities persist in Canada. However, it remains unclear how equity is being understood and taken up within the Canadian cancer context. Our objective was to identify how health and healthcare equity are bein...
What are examples of health inequities? How about the person whose emergency surgery kept them in hospital for days, who missed shifts at work and lost their job? Or the person who couldn’t make it to the clinic because they lacked the money to pay for parking, and had to choose betwee...