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Strengthening and expanding health inequality monitoring for the advancement of health equity: a review of WHO resources and contributions
As part of its commitment to advance health equity, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a developed area of work to promote and strengthen health...
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Decomposing inequality in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services in Nepal
BackgroundAbout 75.5% of women in Nepal’s urban areas receive at least four ANC visits, compared to 61.7% of women in the country’s rural areas....
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Perceived health inequalities: are the UK and US public aware of occupation-related health inequality, and do they wish to see it reduced?
BackgroundOne underexamined factor in the study of lay views of socioeconomic health inequalities is occupation-related health. Examining health by...
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Catastrophic health expenditure and its inequality in rural China: based on longitudinal data from 2013 to 2018
BackgroundCatastrophic health expenditure (CHE) is an important indicator of measuring health inequality. Previous studies mainly focused on specific...
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Socioeconomic inequality of health-related quality of life in cancer survivors in South Korea
BackgroundWe investigated the inequalities in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among cancer survivors in Korea, focusing on income and...
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Factors influencing inequality in government health expenditures within African regional economic communities
BackgroundThe unequal distribution of government health spending within African regional economic grou**s is a significant barrier to achieving...
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Inequality in the distribution of resources in the health sector before and after the Health Transformation Plan in Qazvin, Iran
BackgroundThe equitable distribution of healthcare resources represents a paramount objective in the realm of global health systems. Thus, the...
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Socioeconomic inequality in informal payments for health services among Iranian households: a national pooled study
BackgroundThere is limited evidence on the prevalence and socioeconomic inequality in informal payments (IP) of households in the Iranian health...
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Inequality in health opportunities in Indonesia: long-term influence of early-life circumstances on health
BackgroundThis study explores inequality of opportunity in terms of the health of adult Indonesian people, associated with household and parental...
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Self-employment and health inequality of migrant workers
BackgroundSelf-employment is one of the most common forms of employment for migrant workers in China. However, migrant workers’ lifestyle and...
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To what extent has the Iranian Health Transformation Plan addressed inequality in healthcare financing in Iran?
BackgroundOne of the major goals of health systems is providing a financing strategy without inequality; this has a significant impact on people’s...
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Socioeconomic inequality, health inequity and well-being of transgender people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
BackgroundWe aimed to explore socioeconomic inequality, health inequity, and the well-being of transgender people during the COVID-19 crisis in...
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Making un/equal: reassessing inequality and mental health through a praxeographic approach on welfare categorization processes
PurposeIn recent decades, Europe has seen a steady increase in psychiatric diagnoses, which, besides affecting the population in many ways, also...
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Health Inequality Monitoring channel on OpenWHO: capacity strengthening through eLearning
BackgroundHealth inequality monitoring can generate important evidence to inform and motivate changes to policy, programmes and practices. However,...
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Wealth-based inequality in the continuum of maternal health service utilisation in 16 sub-Saharan African countries
BackgroundPersistent inequalities in coverage of maternal health services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region home to two-thirds of global maternal...
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Gender health care inequalities in health crisis: when uncertainty can lead to inequality
BackgroundIn health crisis, inequalities in access to and use of health care services become more evident. The objective of this study is to analyse...
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Income inequality and self-rated health status in Colombia
BackgroundThe negative association between income inequality and health has been known in the literature as the Income Inequality Hypothesis (IIH)....
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Social inequality, social networks, and health: a sco** review of research on health inequalities from a social network perspective
BackgroundThis review summarises the present state of research on health inequalities using a social network perspective, and it explores the...
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Evaluating Health Inequality in Five Caribbean Basin Countries Using EQ-5D-5L
BackgroundEQ-5D-5L is a standardized health outcomes instrument that can be added to national surveys to measure inequality in health outcomes. The...
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Bayesian estimation of the effect of health inequality in disease detection
BackgroundMeasuring health inequality is essential to ensure that everyone has equal accessibility to health care. Studies in the past have...
