Health systems: how much difference can they make to health inequities?

What it found

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Who cites it

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4. Five ways 'health scholars' are complicit in upholding health inequities, and how to stop.International journal for equity in health · 2023
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5. Values are not enough: qualitative study identifying critical elements for prioritization of health equity in health systems.International journal for equity in health · 2020
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6. How Equity-Oriented Health Care Affects Health: Key Mechanisms and Implications for Primary Health Care Practice and Policy.The Milbank quarterly · 2018
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7. Associations of lack of voluntary private insurance and out-of-pocket expenditures with health inequalities. Evidence from an international longitudinal survey in countries with universal health coverage.PloS one · 2018
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8. Socio-economic factors linked with mental health during the recession: a multilevel analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2017
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9. The costs of inequality: whole-population modelling study of lifetime inpatient hospital costs in the English National Health Service by level of neighbourhood deprivation.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2016
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Corrections and comments

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  How a universal health system reduces inequalities: lessons from England.2016

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