equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. the fair allocation of human resources is one of the dimensions of equity, which was evaluated in this study.we evaluated the equity of human resources' distribution among iran's medical science universities between 2005 and 2009 by inequality measures including lorenze curve, gini coeffi...

This commentary reviews the many different ways the Affordable Care Act (ACA) explicitly and implicitly attempted to improve health equity, and then assesses how the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the ACA (the proposed American Health Care Act) would impact efforts to improve health equity. Although the American health care system still had a long way to go to achieve health equity, ...

While laboratories play an important and recognized role in many public health programs that require surveillance of disease spread or monitoring of environmental conditions, the role of public laboratories in assessing and advancing health equity is not well understood. Yet, public laboratories collect, provide or generate much of the data used to determine health equity status and monitor hea...

nowadays, suppliers in order to maintain and improve their positions against othernational and international suppliers take advantage of their brand equity, but the problem is that industrial suppliers do not know what factors are influencing for development and promotion industrial brand equity and also do not know how to enhance brand equity, to improve brand performance in industrial markets...

Background Decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. Fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. The current approach refl...

The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based on a common belief that their citizens should enjoy universal and equitable access to good quality health care. The ministers intend to form a network to share thinking and evidence on health care ...

    Background: Providing fair access to high-quality healthcare services is one of the most important goals of health systems. This study was conducted between 2012 and 2013 to determine the level of equity in the quality of hospital services in Iran.    Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1,003 patients were chosen from 100 hospitals in Iran with multi-stage rand...

The Ministers of Health from Chile, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom recently established The International Forum on Common Access to Health Care Services, based on a common belief that their citizens should enjoy universal and equitable access to good quality health care. The ministers intend to form a network to share thinking and evidence on healthcare i...

equity in settlement of foreign investment disputes regard of equity in judicial and non-judicial settlement of disputes is necessary. because of the international area of justice in the foreign investment disputes, the equity is more important in these cases. study of international review shows the following and predication of the equity in the adjudges. so that the equity is the basic princip...