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Feb 22, 2018 · Health inequities are differences in health status or in the distribution of health resources between different population groups, arising from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
Jan 31, 2018 · Increasing evidence shows that health inequalities exist between and within countries, and emphasis has been placed on strengthening the production and use of the global health inequalities research, so as to improve capacities to act.
- Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Diego F. Rojas-Gualdrón, Juan M. Pericàs, Juan M. Pericàs, Joan Benach, Joan Be...
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0191901
- 2018
- PLoS One. 2018; 13(1): e0191901.
Jun 24, 2015 · We describe the dimensions along which health inequalities are commonly examined, including across the global population, between countries or states, and within geographies, by socially relevant groupings such as race/ethnicity, gender, education, caste, income, occupation, and more.
- Mariana C. Arcaya, Alyssa L. Arcaya, S. V. Subramanian
- 2015
Feb 3, 2021 · At this crucial moment in global health with the COVID-19 pandemic exposing the weaknesses in our health systems, this Comment takes an introspective and forward-looking approach to propose actionable solutions to global health inequalities in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) while building relationships between high-income ...
- Isaac Olufadewa, Miracle Adesina, Toluwase Ayorinde
- 2021
- Background
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
Global health equity strategists have previously focused much on differences across countries. At first glance, the global health gap appears to result primarily from disparities between the developing and developed regions. We examine how much of this disparity could be attributed to within-country disparities in developing nations.
We used data from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 1995 and 2010 in 67 developing countries. Using a population attributable risk approach, we computed the proportion of global under-five mortality gap and the absolute number of under-five deaths that would be reduced if the under-five mortality rate in each of these 67 countries wa...
In 2007, approximately 6.6 million under-five deaths were observed in the 67 countries used in the analysis. This could be reduced to only 600,000 deaths if these countries had the same under-five mortality rate as developed countries. If the under-five mortality rate was lowered to the rate among the top 10% economic group in each of these countri...
Under-five mortality disparities within developing countries account for roughly half of the global gap between developed and developing countries. Thus, within-country inequities deserve as much consideration as do inequalities between the world’s developing and developed regions.
- Agbessi Amouzou, Naoko Kozuki, Davidson R Gwatkin
- 2014
Apr 20, 2023 · The 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.
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health inequalities, with disadvantaged groups within countries generally having shorter life expectancies and experiencing a greater burden of disease pre-pandemic. The drive towards universal health coverage (UHC), enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals
