Regional disparities in child mortality within China 1996–2004: epidemiological profile and health care coverage

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran

Regional Mortality Disparities in Germany

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the re-emergence of stark differences between eastern and western Germany after 1970, which have almost disappeared again in the decades after the reunificatio...

health care analysis and regional disparities in different provinces of iran

Government health care spending and child mortality.

BACKGROUND Government health care spending (GHS) is of increasing importance to child health. Our study determined the relationship between reductions in GHS and child mortality rates in high- and low-income countries. METHODS The authors used comparative country-level data for 176 countries covering the years 1981 to 2010, obtained from the World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and...

Health care quality-improvement approaches to reducing child health disparities.

Relatively few quality-improvement efforts have been aimed at reducing differences in children's care and outcomes across race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and insurance status. To inform quality-improvement efforts to reduce child health disparities, we summarize lessons learned from the adult disparities-intervention literature, identify interventions that have reduced disparities in ...