Health and equity

Health and equity.

In national and international journals, dedication to the subject of social medicine and interrelated issues, such as health equity, social and cultural determinants in health and access to health care, is still rather simplistic. In a scenario of global crisis, Europe and Latin America are facing a time where they must rethink their respective health systems, as in the case of the Unified Heal...

Equity and health.

Stakeholders\' perspective on health equity and its indicators in Iran

Background: In this regard, in Iran a plan was developed and accordingly 52 indicators to measure equity inhealth were developed and announced by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with other sectors.This study aims to obtain a deeper understanding of the development of health equity indicators andidentify their implementation challenges and proposed solutions from the perspective of polic...

Reducing Health Inequities Through Intersectoral Action: Balancing Equity in Health With Equity for Other Social Goods

Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit of health equity may be at odds w...

Health Sector Evolution Plan in Iran; Equity and Sustainability Concerns

In 2014, a series of reforms, called as the Health Sector Evolution Plan (HSEP), was launched in the health system of Iran in a stepwise process. HSEP was mainly based on the fifth 5-year health development national strategies (2011-2016). It included different interventions to: increase population coverage of basic health insurance, increase quality of care in the Ministry of Health and Medica...