Access to Health Care and Horizontal Equity

Horizontal equity in the delivery of health care*

Horizontal equity in health care utilization in Brazil, 1998–2008

INTRODUCTION This study assesses trends in horizontal equity in the utilization of healthcare services from 1998 to 2008--a period of major economic and social change in Brazil. METHODS Data are from nationally representative surveys repeated in 1998, 2003, and 2008. We apply established methods for assessing horizontal inequity in healthcare access (the principle that people with the same he...

Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...

On Achieving Access and Equity in Health Care

This paper addresses some of the issues related to health care in the United States. In so doing, I give primary emphasis to questions involving access to health care. Even so, I limit the discussion of any particular topic to its most important facets. The principle of selection involves various criteria: insofar as possible, I discuss those issues that are important at a system level (particu...

Community Health Worker Programs to Improve Healthcare Access and Equity: Are They Only Relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Background Community Health Workers (CHWs) are proven to be highly effective in low- and middle-income countries with many examples of successful large-scale programs. There is growing interest in deploying CHW programs in high-income countries to address inequity in healthcare access and outcomes amongst population groups facing disadvantage. This study is the first that examines the scope and...