We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, health have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19, had compressed potentially unsustainable levels, with widening inequalities large unmet needs, among poor. Higher ad...

Access to health services requires a multidimensional analysis inside a holistic perspective. Such a multidimensional analysis responds to the needs of a more pluralist health geography framework and to the “cultural turn” that studies of health accessibility are experiencing nowadays (Hawthorne & Kwan 2012). This cultural turn needs to be reflected through a clear wellbeing conceptual framewor...

The Brunn-Minkowski inequality theory plays an important role in a number of mathematical disciplines such as measure theory, crystallography, optimal control theory, functional analysis, and geometric convexity. It has many useful applications in combinatorics, stochastic geometry, and mathematical economics. In recent years, several authors including Ball [1, 2, 3], Bourgain and Lindenstrauss...

Correspondence to: Dr M Joffe, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PF, UK; [email protected] _________________________ A person’s health status is largely determined by factors outside the control of the healthcare sector. While some of these are fixed, such as inheritance, many are environmental in the broadest s...

Waiting times for elective surgery, like hip replacement, are often referred to as an equitable rationing mechanism in publicly-funded healthcare systems because access to care is not based on socioeconomic status. Previous work has established that that this may not be the case and there is evidence of inequality in NHS waiting times favouring patients living in the least deprived neighbourhoo...

Background Intersectionality has received increased interest within population health research in recent years, as a concept and framework to understand entangled dimensions of health inequalities, such as gender and socioeconomic inequalities in health. However, little attention has been paid to the intersectional middle groups, referring to those occupying positions of mixed advantage and dis...