STUDY OBJECTIVE To propose a definition of health equity to guide operationalisation and measurement, and to discuss the practical importance of clarity in defining this concept. DESIGN Conceptual discussion. Setting, Patients/Participants, and Main results: not applicable. CONCLUSIONS For the purposes of measurement and operationalisation, equity in health is the absence of systematic disp...

It is interesting to reflect at this time on the issue of Medical Insurance with the demise of UMP so much in the press recently. I am not going to focus on the pros and cons of insurance as such, or on the world-wide insurance industry with its lack of concern for social equity and the genuinely disadvantaged, alongside the obscene payouts to those managers at the top of the scale whether they...

BACKGROUND The promotion of health equity, the absence of avoidable and unfair differences in health outcomes, is a global imperative. Systematic reviews are an important source of evidence for health decision-makers, but have been found to lack assessments of the intervention effects on health equity. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) is a 27 item ...

(2005) Bridging the equity gap in maternal and child health: lay health workers may help bridge equity gap in maternal and child

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...

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...

Background: Health equity is “having fair access to healthcare, utilizing it according to actual needs, paying for it based on financial capacity and finally, having an acceptable level of health”. Health equity is an underlying principle of the universal declaration of human rights. Equitable distribution of hospital beds increases people’s access to healthcare services and as a result, improv...

background: although many efforts made for the advancement of medical science, it is distributed inequitably despite of all existing financial and human resources facilities. children as the most important and vulnerable groups of society are influenced by these inequities. the objective of this study is comparison of children health indices in rich and poor rural zones in mashhad/iran. methods...