of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …

healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population … pathways and guidelines. No clear evidence of a general healthcare undersupply in rural areas was found. …

Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in health care is critical for achieving health equity. The aim of this paper … is threefold: 1) to quantify inequality in diabetes health care service utilization; 2) to understand determinants of … contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients’ health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services …

Background: This study compared the methodological requirements for early health technology appraisal (HTA) by the … Federal Joint Committee/Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (G-BA/IQWiG; Germany) and the National Institute … for Health and Care Excellence (NICE; England). Methods: The following aspects were examined: guidance texts on …

-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) and emotional distress to the parents besides the medical problems and further financial costs to the health … insurance system. According to the results on infants' state of health, OOPE and emotional distress are significantly increased …

How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine … how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data … to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with simple ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. The SEM …-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and socioeconomic status and allows for different sets of … Demographic and Health Survey. …

This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The … contribution of this paper is to study different hypotheses linking self-perceived health status and income, allowing for the … identification of different mechanisms in income-related health inequalities. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and …

the full samples in China. Methods: Data were obtained from four waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …, education, income, chronic disease and self-reported health issues help explain a large portion of inequality in outpatient and … with the flexibility of their response to policies. Conclusions: Key policy recommendations include establishing a health …