The article explores the issue of health care inequality in the U.S. Unequal care is allegedly rampant in the healthcare system and mirrors broad differences between the quality of care delivered to non-white and white populations. The author argues that the persistence of such disparities is ...
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
It is not the same as inequality, which is a much broader term, generally used in the human rights field to describe differences among individuals, some of which are not remediable (at least with current knowledge). Some languages do not make a distinction between the two terms, which may ...
The “Eighth Theorem” explains the motives of those who focus on inequality. The “Ninth Theorem” explains how politics often trump principles. The “Tenth Theorem” explains how politicians manufacture/exploit crises. The “Eleventh Theorem” explains why big business is often anti-free market. ...
This article has been published as part of International Journal for Equity in Health Volume 21 Supplement 3, 2022: COVID-19 and inequality. The full contents of the supplement are available online at https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-21-supplement-3.Funding...
Health inequality in China In China, rapid globalization, industrialization, and urbanization and the ageing of the population seen during this transition have had an enormous impact on the health and spatial distribution of health care resources across different regions and population groups, resulting ...
Nutritional deficiencies remain serious medical and public health issues worldwide, especially in children. This study aims to analyze cross-country inequality in four common nutritional deficiencies (protein-energy malnutrition, dietary iron deficiency,
Toward a new understanding of community-based education: the role of community-based educational spaces in disrupting inequality for minoritized youth Rev Res Educ, 41 (1) (2017), pp. 381-402, 10.3102/0091732X16688622 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 118 N. Wallerstein, B. Duran, J.G. Oetzel...
Using the most recent national survey yet in the Philippines, inequality in the use of MCH services remain pro-rich after extensive subsidy for the health insurance of the poor. The large and increasing contribution of household wealth (>50 %) shows that the use of health care services in th...
The disparity information and communication technology for developing countries has in the delivery of healthcare information Open Med Inf J, 4 (1) (2010 Sep 15), pp. 195-201 [16] MONITORING HEALTH INEQUALITY - An Essential Step for Achieving Health Equity [Internet], World Health Organisation...