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IJEqH Editors' Picks

  1. Implementation research is increasingly used to identify common implementation problems and key barriers and facilitators influencing efficient access to health interventions.

    Authors: J. Eslava-Schmalbach, N. Garzón-Orjuela, V. Elias, L. Reveiz, N. Tran and E. V. Langlois
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:80
  2. Immigrant populations face diverse barriers to accessing appropriate healthcare services on several levels. In the Basque Country, Sub-Saharan African women were identified as facing the largest barriers to ac...

    Authors: Iratxe Pérez-Urdiales, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián, Amaia Irazusta and Ida Linander
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:59
  3. While the negative effects of housing insecurity on health are well known, the mechanisms and mediators of these effects have been less well studied. The aim of this study is to identify perceived mediators in...

    Authors: Hugo Vásquez-Vera, Ana Fernández, Ana M. Novoa, Lucía Delgado, Joaquín Barcala, Carlos Macías and Carme Borrell
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:52
  4. In Botswana, one fifth of the adult population is infected with HIV, with young women most at risk. Structural factors such as poverty, poor education, strong gender inequalities and gender violence render man...

    Authors: David Loutfi, Neil Andersson, Susan Law, Jon Salsberg, Jeannie Haggerty, Leagajang Kgakole and Anne Cockcroft
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2019 18:12
  5. Life expectancy initially improves rapidly with economic development but then tails off. Yet, at any level of economic development, some countries do better, and some worse, than expected – they either punch a...

    Authors: Fran Baum, Jennie Popay, Toni Delany-Crowe, Toby Freeman, Connie Musolino, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet, Vinya Ariyaratne, Kedar Baral, Paulin Basinga, Mary Bassett, David M. Bishai, Mickey Chopra, Sharon Friel, Elsa Giugliani, Hideki Hashimoto, James Macinko…
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2018 17:117
  6. The purpose was to develop and test a population health measure that combines mean health outcomes and inequalities into a single GDP-like metric to help policymakers measure population health performance on b...

    Authors: David Kindig, Nicholas Lardinois, Yukiko Asada and John Mullahy
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2018 17:25
  7. Social exclusion is a concept that has been widely debated in recent years; a particular focus of the discussion has been its significance in relation to health. The meanings of the phrase “social exclusion”, ...

    Authors: Patrick O’Donnell, Diarmuid O’Donovan and Khalifa Elmusharaf
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2018 17:15
  8. Research indicate that social class mobility could be potentially important for health, but whether this is due to the movement itself or a result of people having been integrated in different class contexts i...

    Authors: Frida Jonsson, Miguel San Sebastian, Anne Hammarström and Per E. Gustafsson
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2017 16:1