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Awareness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is limited in Muslim countries, even among high-risk populations. Several factors contribute to the misunderstandings and stigma surrounding HIV, including socio...
This study examined the experiences of Indigenous youth and young adults with pediatric onset chronic health conditions who had or were about to transition from pediatric to adult healthcare services. Transiti...
Achieving equitable healthcare access for persons with disabilities is vital, as they often face various barriers that impact their health and well-being. Recognizing the importance of gender equity, this stud...
In China, although policies promoting physical-medical integration have received widespread national attention, the existence and manifestation of health equity promotion within these policies still require fu...
People with disabilities often incur higher costs for healthcare, due to higher needs, greater indirect costs, and the need for services not offered by the public system. Yet, people with disabilities are more...
Families caring for patients with dementia are more vulnerable to depression. This cross-sectional study compared differences in socioeconomic status and gender related to depression among families of patients...
The original article was published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:161
To examine the landscape of preventive strategies and interventions directed to achieve oral health equity, with particular emphasis on the interplay between dental caries prevention, individual behaviors, and...
The use of urban green spaces differs by social characteristics, including gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic position. We examined motives, means and prerequisites to visit green space of marginalised popul...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most unequal regions in the world in terms of wealth and household income. Such inequalities have been shown to influence different outcomes during the COVID-...
The economic sanctions imposed on Iran have had a significant impact on the country’s healthcare system. The sanctions have affected the availability and affordability of cancer diagnosis and treatment service...
There are growing global concerns about informal waste pickers and their health issues. This cross-sectional study drew on the structural violence theory to examine the mental health situation of informal wast...
Access to and engagement with primary healthcare can be difficult for marginalized low-income populations residing in inner cities in high-income countries. We designed a study to examine retention in primary ...
The original article was published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:196
Equitable access to vaccination remains a concern, particularly among population groups made structurally vulnerable. These population groups reflect the diversity of communities that are confronted with struc...
Previous research highlights persistent differential attainment by ethnicity in medical education, wherein the perceived inclusiveness significantly influences ethnic minority students’ and trainees’ outcomes....
As compared to men, older women´s higher rates of depression diagnosis and antidepressant use are widely reported. We aimed to: a) explore whether there is a potential gender bias in the clinical diagnosis of ...
China is striving to promote a hierarchical medical system (HMS) to improve the efficiency of health resource utilization and ensure health equity. An innovative payment scheme named the “Diagnosis-Interventio...
It remains unclear how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the mental health of different vulnerable groups. This study explores how mental health inequalities changed between 2014 (pre-COVID-19) and 2021...
Health system satisfaction is an important but understudied indicator of health system performance. It has far-reaching implications for sustainability but has been widely understudied particularly for non-Eur...
Palliative care (PC) has the potential to alleviate suffering and enhance quality of life for patients with serious progressive diseases; however, access to PC remains unequal across different populations.
Enhancing the accessibility and equity of primary healthcare (PHC) is a crucial objective of China’s healthcare reform. However, spatial barriers remain a significant factor contributing to the inequitable acc...
The prevalence of gender disparities in physical, mental, and cognitive disorders among elderly hypertensive individuals in rural areas remains unclear. This study evaluates these disparities and the factors c...
The Australian Government began implementing Medicare policies in the late 1990s aiming to improve Indigenous Peoples’ access to the primary care. No aggregate central list of what policies have been implement...
Health systems worldwide face an increasing array of interconnected stresses, undermining efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.8 on universal health coverage by 2030. The confluence of chall...
This study explored how gender inequalities in health systems influence women’s experiences of obstetric violence in Ghana. Obstetric violence is recognised as a major public health concern and human rights vi...
Deaths related to suicide, drug misuse, and alcohol-specific causes, known collectively as “deaths of despair” are of growing interest to researchers in England. Rates of death from these causes are highest in...
Northern Thailand and its neighbouring regions are home to several minority ethnic groups known as hill tribes, each with their own language and customs. Hill tribe communities live mostly in remote agricultur...
The original article was published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:205
The growth in life expectancy (LE) slows down recently in several high-income countries. Among the underlying dynamics, uneven progress in LE across social groups has been pointed out. However, these dynamics ...
The original article was published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:222
People with disabilities frequently experience barriers in seeking healthcare that lead to poorer health outcomes compared to people without disabilities. To overcome this, it is important to assess the access...
Niger is a large country with many distant locations that can be difficult to access because the Sahara Desert covers 80% of the country’s land. In Niger, just 49% of residents have access to a health centre w...
The growing number of vulnerable migrants and refugees (VMRs) in the European Union presents challenges to healthcare systems, emphasizing the need for enhanced intercultural competence training for healthcare...
There are avoidable differences (i.e., inequities) in the prevalence and distribution of chronic pain across diverse populations, as well as in access to and outcomes of pain management services. Digital pain ...
Indigenous people in high-income countries have worse eye health outcomes when compared to non-Indigenous people, contributing to ongoing socioeconomic disadvantage. Although services have been designed to add...
Anaemia, characterised by a deficiency in red blood cells or haemoglobin, is a public health issue in Ghana, particularly among children. The prevalence of anaemia in this age group has been a longstanding con...
Friedreich Ataxia (FA) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease with systemic consequences affecting vital organs including those of the central and peripheral nervous systems. This article will use FA as an ...
Language and cultural discordance refer to when a physician and patient do not share the same language or culture. This can create barriers to providing high-quality care at the end-of-life (EoL). This study e...
Politics as the exercise of power always influence public policies–which reflects the multifaceted nature of decision-making–but “using politics” as a motivation for self-serving interests of government leader...
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that engages academic researchers and community stakeholders as equal partners in all research steps to address community conc...
Measuring intercultural attitudes can aid in understanding and addressing persistent inequities in healthcare. Instead of creating new instruments, several sources call for a more rigorous revalidation of exis...
Experiences of discrimination in healthcare lead to poorer mental and physical health for transgender individuals. There is evidence that trans-specialists, i.e. health professionals specializing in transgende...
Racial discrimination is linked to unhealthy food environments and a higher prevalence of food insecurity. However, no study has explored their interrelated effects. We analyzed the relationship between racial...
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has become an endemic disease of global public health importance. Mass COVID-19 vaccination has been an essential global control strategy amidst challenges of limited accept...
While equity in health care is the core of the Swedish health system, social inequalities in accessing health care, particularly regarding dental care, exist. There is however no information on how the Sámi po...
The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:238
Due to the weaknesses of the public health system and its low reach, especially in border areas, provision of health services by non-state actors (NSAs) has historically played an important role in Myanmar. NS...
Long COVID-19 challenges health and social systems globally. International research finds major inequalities in prevalence and healthcare utilization as patients describe difficulties with accessing health car...
Antibiotic resistance in uropathogens has rapidly escalated over time, complicating treatment and increasing morbidity and mortality. Few studies have explored how the social determinants of health may be asso...
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