Inequalities in the American health-care system.The societal architecture that supports the large inequalities in access to health care by race, income, class, sex, and geography in the USA seems poised for change. The new administration has proposed a USDollars 634 billion downpayment on a ...
The new administration has proposed a USDollars 634 billion downpayment on a Dollars 1 trillion healthcare reform package aimed at achieving universal health care. Congress has been assigned the task of working out the details of this proposal in the coming months. Given the severity of the ...
Serious inequalities in access to health care worldwide increase the importance of including solidarity as one of the principles of the declaration. unesdoc.unesco.org 由于全球医疗保健服务方面的严重失 衡, 将互助作为一项原则列入宣言显得更具重要 意义。 unesdoc.unesco.org JS1 indicated that the Jasm...
- 《International Journal for Equity in Health》 被引量: 8发表: 2016年 Can innovation increase the therapeutic options but accentuate the inequalities in the healthcare system? At present, for patients being treated within the public health system, only dacarbazine is available. Whereas, immune-...
: Health Equity as an Arena for Nursing Action This article revisits and reaffirms Patricia Steven's earlier work on access to healthcare as an important arena for nursing action. Many of the conditions... Pauly,M Bernadette,MacKinnon,... - 《Ans Advances in Nursing Science》 被引量: 25...
Social class inequalities in the utilization of health care and preventive services in Spain, a country with a national health system. In Spain, despite the existence of a National Health System (NHS), the utilization of some curative health services is related to social class. This study ......
Inequalities in Health and Health Care in Post-communist Europe With life expectancy in virtually all of the post-socialist accession countries much lower than the average for the previous EU15, health has assumed a critical economic and political significance in Europe. The achievement of greater ...
OBJECTIVE: In nineties, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have implemented a wide range of changes to health systems. The objective of this paper was to assess social inequalities in utilisation of, and access to, health care services in the late nineties. METHODS: The comparative NORBALT Survey con...
Scholars across many disciplines have amassed a mountain of research documenting how social differences along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality shape how those who need medical attention are cared for in the US healthcare system. Here, we aim to succinctly review a selection of studies...
Concepts of relative versus absolute; doseÁresponse versus threshold; composition versus context; place versus space; the life course perspective on health; causal pathways to health; conditional health effects; and group-level versus individual differences are vital in understanding health inequalities....