In this article, the first of two, Vanessa Heaslip et al examine factors that lead to certain groups having poorer health outcomes in UK Practice nurses are ideally placed within local communities have a significant impact on addressing inequities. However, achieve they need understand many outcomes. Advances longevity do not automatically match advances and wellbeing across all social groups. ...

Although several primates respond negatively to inequity, it is unknown whether this results from homology or convergent processes. Behaviours shared within a taxonomic group are often assumed to be homologous, yet this distinction is important for a better understanding of the function of the behaviour. Previous hypotheses have linked cooperation and inequity responses. Supporting this, all sp...

BACKGROUND This equity focused evaluation analyses change in inter-district inequity of maternal health services (MHS) in Karnataka state between 2006-07 & 2012-13, alongside association of MHS inequity with distribution of maternal deaths. METHODS Repeated cross-sectional analysis of inequity and decomposition was done on nine district level MHS indicators using Theil's T index. Data was obt...

Cooperation is only beneficial if the outcome is equally shared between individuals involved in the cooperative interaction. A mechanism to limit the development of unequal cooperation is inequity aversion, the negative reaction to unequal treatment. While inequity aversion has been studied extensively across many animal species, it remains unclear whether inequity aversion elicited in experime...

introduction: the success of a health system depends on the accessibility and the quality of health services it provides. one major indicator of service quality is peoples satisfaction from the service. in this article, healthcare availability and satisfaction of people in 17th zone of tehran is investigated. methods: population research center has performed a survey in 17th zone of tehran to i...

This paper analyzes how incentive provision in team production is affected if agents are inequity averse in the sense of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). By deriving optimal contracts accounting for inequity aversion we find that efficient effort choices can be implemented with simple budget-balancing sharing rules if agents are sufficiently inequity averse. Conditions on inequity aversion become less ...

This paper analyzes the interaction of fairness concerns and social comparisons with asymmetric information and incentives within the context of a firm’s employment decision. It studies optimal, incentive-compatible employment contracts if each worker is inequity averse he suffers from being ‘worse off’ than his colleagues and has private information about his productivity. Inequity aversion is...

BACKGROUND Disease Management Programmes (DMPs) have been introduced in Germany ten years ago with the aim to improve effectiveness and equity of care, but little is known about the degree to which enrolment in the programme meets the principles of equity in health care. We aimed to analyse horizontal equity in DMP enrolment among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS Cross-sect...