Health care inequity has continued from slavery and into the 20th century primarily due of racial segregation, poverty, access, poor quality of care, eugenics and the assault of forced sterilizations. Racial disparity in maternal and infant mortality is an outcome rooted in racial injustice, social...
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...
Health difference, disparity, inequality or inequity--what difference does it make what we call it? Buchbiner M., Rivkin-Fish M., Walker R.L. (Eds.), Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC (2016) Google Scholar 9 Colby S.L., ...
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...
In an increasing number of cases, people suffer from overcrowding, alienation, inequity, and high crime rates. Furthermore, when looked at more widely, some cities are seen to have large ecological footprints. Urban communities can be intense users of energy, water and other nat...
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...
However, because estimates differ substantially by study and by demographic factor, our review reveals a need for better quality measure- ments that identify inequity in mental health outcomes in order to target appropriate, early interventions. Critically, this too could contribute to the prevention ...
Describe the difference between overpayment inequity and underpayment inequity. Explain at least four types of ethical misconduct in financial transactions. Describe the nuances of the terms "medical records" and "health information." Why does HIPAA use the latter term? (a) How does your understan...
A health disparity is a difference in health outcomes that arises from health inequities that affect medically underserved populations.1 A health inequity is the unfair distribution of health determinants, outcomes, and resources between and within different segments of a population based on social, ...
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 ...