| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCommentary Poverty and maternal mortality in Nigeria: towards a more viable ethics of modern medical practice Bolatito A Lanre-Abass PMCID: PMC2390565 Research Waiting times for elective treatments according to insurance status: A randomized empirical study in Germany Markus Lungen, Bjoern Stollenwerk, Philipp Messner, Karl W Lauterbach, and Andreas Gerber PMCID: PMC2246139 Can microcredit help improve the health of poor women? Some findings from a cross-sectional study in Kerala, India KS Mohindra, Slim Haddad, and D Narayana PMCID: PMC2254417 Social inequalities and correlates of psychotropic drug use among young adults: a population-based questionnaire study Nearkasen Chau, Michèle Baumann, Bruno Falissard, Marie Choquet, and the Lorhandicap group PMCID: PMC2262083 Priority setting in health care: Lessons from the experiences of eight countries Lindsay M Sabik and Reidar K Lie PMCID: PMC2248188 A healthy mistrust: how worldview relates to attitudes about breast cancer screening in a cross-sectional survey of low-income women Ann Carroll Klassen, Katherine C Smith, Salma Shariff-Marco, and Hee-Soon Juon PMCID: PMC2267195 Research to action to address inequities: the experience of the Cape Town Equity Gauge Vera Scott, Ruth Stern, David Sanders, Gavin Reagon, and Verona Mathews PMCID: PMC2275279 Non-western immigrants' satisfaction with the general practitioners' services in Oslo, Norway Else Lien, Per Nafstad, and Elin O Rosvold PMCID: PMC2292726 HIV/AIDS and home-based health care Pamella A Opiyo, Takashi Yamano, and TS Jayne PMCID: PMC2279120 Development and validation of the Measure of Indigenous Racism Experiences (MIRE) Yin C Paradies and Joan Cunningham PMCID: PMC2359753 Poverty, user fees and ability to pay for health care for children with suspected dengue in rural Cambodia Sokrin Khun and Lenore Manderson PMCID: PMC2386469 What impact do prescription drug charges have on efficiency and equity? Evidence from high-income countries Marin C Gemmill, Sarah Thomson, and Elias Mossialos PMCID: PMC2412871 Low socio-economic position is associated with poor social networks and social support: results from the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Simone Weyers, Nico Dragano, Susanne Möbus, Eva-Maria Beck, Andreas Stang, Stephan Möhlenkamp, Karl Heinz Jöckel, Raimund Erbel, and Johannes Siegrist PMCID: PMC2424055 Inequalities in mortality of men by oral and pharyngeal cancer in Barcelona, Spain and São Paulo, Brazil, 1995–2003 José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes, Carme Borrell, Glòria Pérez, Antonio Fernando Boing, and Victor Wünsch-Filho PMCID: PMC2430700 Equity in health care financing: The case of Malaysia Chai Ping Yu, David K Whynes, and Tracey H Sach PMCID: PMC2467419 Equity in the use of antithrombotic drugs, beta-blockers and statins among Finnish coronary patients Kristiina Manderbacka, Ilmo Keskimäki, Antti Reunanen, and Timo Klaukka PMCID: PMC2459171 Evaluation of the new rural cooperative medical system in China: is it working or not? Hassan H Dib, Xilong Pan, and Hong Zhang PMCID: PMC2459170 Practice characteristics and prescribing of cardiovascular drugs in areas with higher risk of CHD in Scotland: cross-sectional study Gary McLean PMCID: PMC2483972 Determinants of self rated health and mortality in Russia – are they the same? Francesca Perlman and Martin Bobak PMCID: PMC2527310 13,915 reasons for equity in sexual offences legislation: A national school-based survey in South Africa Neil Andersson and Ari Ho-Foster PMCID: PMC2515838 Is it possible to identify patient's sex when reading blinded illness narratives? An experimental study about gender bias Jenny Andersson, Pär Salander, Marie Brandstetter-Hiltunen, Emma Knutsson, and Katarina Hamberg PMCID: PMC2531179 Sexual slavery without borders: trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation in India Christine Joffres, Edward Mills, Michel Joffres, Tinku Khanna, Harleen Walia, and Darrin Grund PMCID: PMC2569945 Health insurance of rural/township schoolchildren in Pinggu, Beijing: coverage rate, determinants, disparities, and sustainability Jane M Zhu, Yiliang Zhu, and Rui Liu PMCID: PMC2613140 Disparities in child health in the Arab region during the 1990s Marwan Khawaja, Jesse Dawns, Sonya Meyerson-Knox, and Rouham Yamout PMCID: PMC2603010 Determinants of self-rated health in women: a population-based study in Armavir Marz, Armenia, 2001 & 2004 Anahit Demirchyan and Michael E Thompson PMCID: PMC2628913 Development and preliminary validation of the 'Caring for Country' questionnaire: measurement of an Indigenous Australian health determinant Christopher P Burgess, Helen L Berry, Wendy Gunthorpe, and Ross S Bailie PMCID: PMC2628914 Social inequalities in mental health in Norway: possible explanatory factors Odd Steffen Dalgard PMCID: PMC2630959 |
