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Background The use of self-reported measures of chronic disease may substantially underestimate prevalence in low-income and middle-income country settings, especially in groups with lower socioeconomic status (SES). We sought to determine whether socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of...
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Objective: To study cross-national inequalities in mortality of adults and of children aged 5 years using a novel approach, with clustering techniques to stratify countries into mortality groups (better-off, worse-off, mid-level) and to examine risk factors associated with inequality. Design,...
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actors morally responsible for achieving common goals. Theories of justice are necessary to define duties and obligations of … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …
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Seit Dekaden hören wir, Entwicklung hilft: Die südlichen Länder der Welt schliessen zum reichen Norden auf, die Armut … zwischen Nord und Süd seit 1960 verdreifacht, 60 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung verdienen weniger als 4,20 Euro am Tag. Armut ist … kein Naturphänomen, sie wird gemacht. Der Autor entlarvt die Wachstumsideologie und zeigt auf, dass Armut ein politisches …
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This paper reconsiders the equity issue in Swedish health care utilisation previously analyzed by Gerdtham (Health Economics 6, 303-319, 1997) within the framework of the standard two-part model. Departing from the user/nonuser distinction, we use the more flexible framework of the finite...
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