Background The Canadian health care system has striven to remove financial or other
barriers to access to medically necessary health care services since the establishment of the …

Context: In a recent article in this journal, Sam Harper and his colleagues (2010) call for
increased awareness and open dialogue of moral judgments underlying health inequality …

Despite the policy and research attention on ensuring equitable access—equal access for
equal need—to health care, research continues to identify inequities in access to cancer …

Self-rated health is a widely used measure of health typically obtained from a question, “How
do you rate your health?” Despite the measure’s popularity, debates continue as to what …

The past decade witnessed great progress in research on health inequities. The most
widely cited definition of health inequity is, arguably, the one proposed by Whitehead and …

Background: Fulfillment of patient preferences for location of dying is of continued end-of-life
care interest. Of those voicing a preference, most prefer home. However the majority of …

Using three nationally representative Aboriginal Peoples Surveys (2001, 2006 and 2012, n
= 68,040), we examined income-related inequalities in self-perceived poor/fair general …

Disease Prevention for 2020, the process for setting national health goals in 2009 for the
coming decade is under way. The Healthy People 2010 goals and objectives have served as …

Background: Health inequality has long attracted keen attention in the research and policy
arena. While there may be various motivations to study health inequality, what distinguishes it …

Importance The association of COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization with functional
mobility in community-dwelling adults above and beyond the impact of the pandemic control …