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Trends in health inequalities in developing countries

(3 days ago) WEBAs a result of several studies, a coherent view of reproductive, newborn, maternal, and child health inequalities has begun to emerge.1–7 Overall, and in most countries, inequalities have been decreasing. However, inequalities have been …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(17)30080-3/fulltext

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Health inequities and their causes - World Health Organization …

(9 days ago) WEBHealth inequities are unfair and could be reduced by the right mix of government policies. Every day 16 000 children die before their fifth birthday. Maternal mortality is a key indicator of health inequity. Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty. 87% of premature deaths due to noncommunicable diseases occur in low- and middle-income …

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes

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WHO releases the largest global collection of health inequality data

(9 days ago) WEBThe data from the repository show that, in just a decade, the rich-poor gap in health service coverage among women, newborns and children in low- and middle-income countries has nearly halved. They also reveal that, in these countries, eliminating wealth-related inequality in under-five mortality could help save the lives of 1.8 million children.

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-04-2023-who-releases-the-largest-global-collection-of-health-inequality-data

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Health equity: challenges in low income countries - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBThe causes of inequalities in developed may be different from those in developing countries. In the developed Organization for Economic Cooperation for Development (OECD) countries access to personal health care services is universal, but inequalities in health status have been shown to be related to income and other socio-economic …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877288/

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An overview of reviews on strategies to reduce health inequalities

(5 days ago) WEBThe reduction of health inequalities, described as the differences in health among people or society [1, 2], is a key issue on the global agenda [].The implementation of health policies and programs is intended to improve the health conditions of the population in aspects relevant to public policy, based on prioritized needs, and which must be …

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-020-01299-w

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Inequalities in Health in Developing Countries: Swimming against …

(2 days ago) WEBRecent data from a 42-country study show large but varying inequalities in health across countries. Wagstaff explores the reasons for these intercountry differences and concludes that large inequalities in health are not apparently associated with large inequalities in income or with small shares of publicly financed health spending

https://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-2795

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Inequalities in Health in Developing Countries: Swimming Against …

(3 days ago) WEBEvidence from trends in health inequalities - in both the developing, and the industrial world - supports the notion that health inequalities rise with rising per capita incomes. The association between health inequalities, and per capita incomes is probably due in part, to technological change going hand-in-hand with economic growth, coupled

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/382d6414-a9b4-5f15-a641-e2f523a06385

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Inequalities in Health in Developing Countries - World Bank

(1 days ago) WEBWhat does come through is a strong positive relationship between health inequality and average income-richer countries invariably have higher health inequalities. Corroborating evidence is presented from data on trends in health inequalities, which have tended to be rising in both the developing and developed worlds, especially during periods

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Trends in health inequalities in developing countries - PubMed

(1 days ago) WEBTrends in health inequalities in developing countries. Trends in health inequalities in developing countries Lancet Glob Health. 2017 Apr;5(4):e371-e372. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30080-3. Epub 2017 Feb 24. Author Davidson R Gwatkin 1 Affiliation 1 Results for Development Institute, 1111 19th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA. Electronic

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28238720/

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Identifying Major Health-System Challenges in Developing …

(6 days ago) WEBIntroduction. A 2016 commentary in this Journal Citation 1 raised a concern that heavy donor investments in expensive and hard to conduct National Health Accounts (NHA) in low- and middle-income countries may have displaced attention from cheaper and more policy friendly Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs). Citation 1 This article does …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1902671

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Reducing health inequalities in developing countries Oxford …

(3 days ago) WEB2.3 Socioeconomic inequalities in health in high-income countries: the facts and the options Notes Collapse 2.4 Reducing health inequalities in developing countries

https://academic.oup.com/book/35585/chapter/306360988

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WORLD SOCIAL REPORT 2020 INEQUALITY IN A RAPIDLY …

(5 days ago) WEB1.8 China: rising inequality alongside greater social mobility 47 1.9 The United States: opportunity “hoarding” among high-income households 49 1.10 Inequality and the rise of populism 51

https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/02/World-Social-Report2020-FullReport.pdf

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Global Health - Our World in Data

(8 days ago) WEBThis suggests that appropriately targeted and managed international health aid can significantly reduce global health inequalities, and improve living standards worldwide. While many countries, especially in the developing world, have made progress in reducing out-of-pocket expenses, others like Russia have seen these costs increase.

https://ourworldindata.org/health-meta

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Making Health Insurance Pro-poor: Lessons from 20 …

(5 days ago) WEBWe identified 64 evaluations of health insurance schemes in 20 developing countries. The substantially expanded published literature cov-ered in this paper goes beyond inequalities in health service utilization to include financial protection and, in a very small number of cases, even health outcomes.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23288604.2021.1917092

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Health Inequalities - OECD

(4 days ago) WEBLarge inequalities in health status and life expectancy exist across population groups and within the OECD countries. These inequalities in health status are linked to many factors, including differences in exposure to health risk factors and in access to healthcare. Most OECD countries have endorsed, as major policy objectives, the reduction

https://www.oecd.org/health/inequalities-in-health.htm

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Reducing health inequalities in developing countries Oxford …

(3 days ago) WEB12.3 Socioeconomic inequalities in health in high-income countries: The facts and the options Notes Collapse 12.4 Reducing health inequalities in developing countries

https://academic.oup.com/book/25101/chapter/189451186

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Humanity Divided: Confronting Inequality in Developing Countries

(4 days ago) WEBOn average—and taking into account population size—income inequality increased by 11 percent in developing countries between 1990 and 2010. A significant majority of households in developing countries—more than 75 percent of the population—are living today in societies where income is more unequally distributed …

https://www.undp.org/publications/humanity-divided-confronting-inequality-developing-countries

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Measuring health inequality among children in developing …

(Just Now) WEBCurrently, poor-rich inequalities in health in developing countries receive a lot of attention from both researchers and policy makers. Since measuring economic status in developing countries is often problematic, different indicators of wealth are used in different studies. Until now, there is a lack of evidence on the extent to which the use of …

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-9276-2-8

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