Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the International Journal for Equity in Health has published its first supplement of selected abstracts from the Sixth International Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health (ISEqH), held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, last year. The theme of the 2011 conference, 'Making Policy a Health Equity Building Process' explored a departure from the idea that equity requires an interdisciplinary approach as well as a research and policy partnership, showing clear experiences about how to reach equity in health.
The supplement includes 8 of the most interesting abstracts presented at the conference, specially selected by the IJEqH Editorial Board. The best paper selected from the ISEqH meeting is now published. The article by Roberto JF Esteves presents a comprehensive rigorous assessment of the healthcare reforms in Brazil and Colombia in terms of the effects on inequity reduction.
International Journal for Equity in Health (IJEqH) is the official journal of ISEqH. The journal has been the natural home for research on health equity for more than 10 years, providing a platform for research on issues that influence the health of populations. IJEqH publishes articles that focus on discussion of political, policy-related, economic, social and health services-related influences, particularly with regard to systematic differences in distributions of one or more aspects of health in population groups defined demographically, geographically, and/or socially.
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