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The Divergence of Inequality in Healthcare Utilization Between Poor- and Rich-Medical Resource Regions: Evidence from the Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China
The healthcare utilization inequality among middle-aged and older adults has been a serious concern shared in the aging process. Successful policy...
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Inequality of Opportunity in Accessing Maternal and Newborn Healthcare Services: Evidence from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey
Under-five mortality is known to be the result of a wide variety of inputs, among which the availability of maternal and child health services....
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Spatial inequality in the accessibility of healthcare services in the Philippines
Ensuring equitable access to healthcare is important for universal health coverage (UHC). Using the enhanced two-step floating catchment area...
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Inequality and Exclusion in Access to HealthCare: Learning from the Pandemic
Inequality is historically known to impact negatively on poverty reduction and economic growth. It is also known to accentuate inequality and...
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Cultural Shift in Healthcare and Ethnic Inequality—Professional Responsibilities
The 13th target of the United Nation’s Sustainability Development Goal 3 calls for strengthening “the capacity of all countries for early warning,...
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The Global Financial Crisis and Healthcare Inequality in Japan
The aim of this study is to clarify whether health-care inequality in Japan widens during a depression, even though Japan has a universal health-care...
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Inequality and Social Movements
Social movements as agents of change are very often oriented towards inequality in spite of the fact that they vary in terms of the kind and level of...
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Explaining Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Well-being among Older People: A Comparison between Vietnam and Myanmar
Limited understanding exists regarding the social determinants of psychological well-being inequalities, particularly in develo** countries with...
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Social Reproduction and Inequality in Feminist Political Economy
‘Social reproduction’ has emerged as a concept that is central to feminist political economy. This chapter reviews the feminist political economy...
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Inequality and inflation relationship in middle-income countries
This research investigates the connection between inflation and inequality in 44 middle-income countries between 1996 and 2017. Our main objective is...
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Inequality and Young Lives in Burundi
Social inequality existed in early societies, such as Egypt, portraying hierarchical structures. Inequality in Africa has been observed where...
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Public Goods, Productivity, and Economic Inequality
This chapter explores the link between public goods provisioning and income inequality. There is considerable evidence to support the significant...
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United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10.2: Analysis of Social Inequality in Ghana
The study aims at Ghana’s efforts to address inequalities and achieve SDG 10.2 by 2023. It explores Sustainable Development Goal 10.2 on social...
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Heterogeneous Influence of Socioeconomic Inequality on Population Health: A Cross-national Study
Prior studies have documented the negative impact of socioeconomic inequality on population health, but few studies have discussed the heterogeneous...
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The Political Effects of Economic Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong
Economic inequality can have significant political-social impacts, leading to social unrest and other negative consequences. With a high level of...
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A Twofold Subjective Measure of Income Inequality
Social scientists have been aiming to calculate a “subjective income Gini coefficient”of survey respondents that would describe their beliefs about...
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Gender Inequality and Gender Gap: An Overview of the Indian Scenario
Gender inequality is pervasive in many societies, creating disparities between genders in terms of what they can accomplish and their access to...
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The Nexus Between Pro-poor Growth, Inequality, Institutions and Poverty: Evidence from Low and Middle Income Develo** Countries
In contrast to former investigations in the growth-poverty literature, this research constructs a panel vector autoregressive model to explore the...
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Impact of Equity in Social Protection Spending on Income Poverty and Inequality
This study aims to investigate whether higher equity in government social protection spending strongly predicts positive changes in income poverty...
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The Structural Conditions for Lasting Economic Inequality in Peru
This chapter examines the structural character of economic inequality in Peru. It is argued that the role of the country in the international...