Objectives To examine existing definitions of health and health inequalities and to
synthesise the most useful of these using explicit rationale and the most parsimonious text …

Most countries have witnessed a dramatic increase of income inequality in the past three
decades. This paper addresses the question of whether income inequality is associated with …

Objectives: This study describes key population health concepts and examines major
empirical trends in US health and healthcare inequalities from 1935 to 2016 according to …

Individuos de diferentes orígenes, grupos sociales y países gozan de diferentes niveles de
salud. En este artículo se define y se distingue entre desigualdades en salud inevitables y …

Introduction The effects of healthcare-related inequalities are most evident in low-resource
settings. Such settings are often not explicitly defined, and umbrella terms which are easier …

Resumen SILVA, Manuela; LOUREIRO, Adriana y CARDOSO, Graça. Social determinants
of mental health: a review of the evidence. Eur. J. Psychiat.[online]. 2016, vol. 30, n. 4, pp …

This paper introduces the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method to be applied in explaining
inequality in health outcome across any two groups. In order to understand every aspect of …

INTRODUCTION within countries the burden of NTDs is found among the poorest 40% of
households, as well as those living in rural or peri-urban areas (8). There are differences …

Objectives. We evaluated use of the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for public
health monitoring. Methods. We used New York City data centered around 2010 to assess …

In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to
socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket …