Global health inequity remains a major challenge despite ambitious goals. Disparities exist between rural and urban areas, high-income countries, and low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), and in representation at conferences and leadership positions. These gaps lead to delayed diagnoses, untreated ...
Health equity-related investments have failed to demonstrate desired social and financial returns due to an avoidance in addressing the interrelated root causes of persistent inequity — systemic drivers such as racism, classism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism that shape social det...
Where the prevalence of long COVID was higher among people of color, it may be a function of inequity in access to care, paid sick leave, and remote work. Like other studies that disaggregate by race [4], we find fairly small Black/white disparities, possibly due to confounding factors ...
consolidated barriers and facilitators of equity/inequity factors and summarized how these factors influence the prenatal patient experience or health outcomes when accessing/using health services, globally. The included studies represent 20 different countries. In addition...
With a greater understanding of how research practices interact with health outcomes and the perpetuation of health inequality and inequity, the REP-EQUITY toolkit facilitates an evidence-based approach that integrates lived experience to formulate a rationale for the inclusion of underserved groups. Many...
(2014) presents a compelling, multilayered, processual account of the ways that changing ideas of modernity and the expansion of a gendered market economy combines with the physiological and ecological structure of HIV transmission risk to produce the outrageous inequity in HIV burden borne by women...
Overall, malnutrition has been shown to be lower in urban areas in developing countries; however, this masks the great disparity between urban-nonslum areas and urban slums. A regional analysis indicated that when stratified by socioeconomic status, intraurban inequities were more pronounced that ...
In an effort to rebut those who claimed that using the stick of inequity or disparity was interfering with the scientific requisites of ideological neutrality, the WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (2008) added this strong statement: “Our core concerns with health equity ...
The complexity of contractual relationships has also been illustrated in this paper, to show the danger of possible biases resulting in irrelevance, inequity, incoherence or transience of health actions typically driving health systems in resource curse environments. Another danger is that health reforms...
Our systematic review highlights significant challenges in the provision of equitable care which suits the preferences of its users. Inconsistent financing, varying eligibility and reduced service capacity are key challenges. Inequity is a consistent theme across pilots, understandable in the context of co...