Health inequalities, which have been well documented for decades, have more recently
become policy targets in developed countries. This review describes time trends in health …

There has been growing policy interest in social justice issues related to both health and
food. We sought to understand the state of knowledge on relationships between health …

Background The concept of “intersectionality” is increasingly employed within public health
arenas, particularly in North America, and is often heralded as offering great potential to …

Like health equity, the social determinants of health (SDH) are becoming a key focus for
policy-makers in many low and middle income countries. Yet despite accumulating evidence …

Background The quality and outcomes framework is a financial incentive scheme that
remunerates general practices in the UK for their performance against a set of quality …

One of the most promising recent developments in health policy has been the emergence of
a global 'health equity'movement concerned with the social determinants of health. In …

An increasing number of studies are documenting the existence of inequities, and attention
is now turning to exploring pathways through which they are generated and might be …

Objective. To explore whether travel time access to the nearest general practitioner (GP)
surgery (which is equivalent to US primary care physician [PCP] office) and pharmacy …

This article reviews and evaluates recent comparative social science scholarship on
healthcare systems. We focus on four of the strongest themes in current research:(a) the …

Background Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality have increased in recent years in many
countries. We examined age-, sex-, and cause-specific mortality rates for social groups in …