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...
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...
Since the early 1990s, Colombia has made great strides in extending healthcare coverage to its population. In order to measure the impact of these efforts, it is important to assess whether the introduction of universal health coverage has translated int
to reveal the impact of the growth of the elderly population on the relationship between the supply and demand of healthcare resources, and to put forward suggestions to improve the coupling and coordination between the supply and demand of healthcare resources and the elderly population, in order...
This article explains the conditions of equity in people's payments for healthcare services in LMICs and focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of successful or failed healthcare systems.#A systematic search was conducted in the existing database that included the data up to December 2016. The...
Equitable care and access to medical services are core components of healthcare quality.The articles combine equity focused approaches with sociotechnical systems analysis.Themes included the need for multilevel analysis and incorporation of an equity lens.HFE is well-positioned to include equity as a...
The pursuit of equity is one of the basic principles behind the strengthening of health care reform. China’s new rural cooperative medical insurance (NRCMI) and urban residents’ basic medical insurance (URBMI) are both “equalized” in terms of fundraising and reimbursement. This paper studies...
Health Equity in the U.S. Health equity applies these principles to human health and the health care system. When assessing equity – or lack of equity – we look at both health outcomes (rates of chronic disease, death, illness) as well as people’s experience of the system (satisfaction...
have more positive health impacts. For instance, Black men are more likely to take preventative health measures recommended by Black physicians. Many minorities have experienced some degree of implicit bias in healthcare encounters throughout their lifetime, which can explain why race/ethnic-concordant...
International Journal for Equity in Health All Volumes & Issues Open Access Advancing Transgender Health Equity ISSN: 1475-9276 (Online) In this topical collection (2 articles) Research Confirmatory validation of the transgender health care humanization scale Liliane Lins-Kusterer, Nicolle Melo...