Health Equity, Access & Literacy

Health Equity, Access & Literacy, Public Health & Health Promotion
October 2, 2026
Measuring What Families Actually Live Through: Deprivation, Type 1 Diabetes, and the Quiet Work of Universal Coverage
A family-level deprivation scale for children with type 1 diabetes, and what better measurement means for universal health coverage and policy.
Reading time: 8 minutes
The Children Who Never Reach the Clinic: What National Health Surveys Tell Us, and What Türkiye Is Missing
Why national health surveys are essential for child health: what they reveal that hospital records miss, and the data gaps Türkiye still needs to…
Reading time: 9 minutes
Co-creation, Co-design, and Co-production for Public Health
Co-creation, co-design and co-production in public health: definitions, differences and how to apply them.
Reading time: 3 minutes
Health Literacy and Healthcare Decision-Making Equity
How health literacy affects equity in healthcare decision-making and the risk of low-value care.
Reading time: 3 minutes
Defining Health Equity for Action and Research
Defining health equity for action and research: why a shared definition matters and what it should include.
Reading time: 5 minutes
Defining Health Disparities and Health Equity
of Paula Braveman’s Annual Review of Public Health paper on defining and measuring health disparities and health equity.
Reading time: 3 minutes
Measuring Socioeconomic Status in Health Disparities Research
Shavers (2007) on measuring socioeconomic status in health disparities research: six sources of inconsistency, income vs education vs occupation, and compositional vs contextual measures.
Reading time: 5 minutes
Health Literacy as a Public Health Goal
of Don Nutbeam’s 2000 Health Promotion International paper: functional, interactive and critical health literacy as a public health goal.
Reading time: 3 minutes
Intervention Mapping: Developing Health Education Programs
Intervention mapping explained: a step-by-step protocol for developing theory-based health education programmes.
Reading time: 4 minutes
Workplace Interventions for Health Promotion: An Effectiveness Review
A review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions for health promotion on employees’ health behaviours.
Reading time: 5 minutes
Health Demand, Access & Human Capital, Health Economics, Health Equity, Access & Literacy, Public Health & Health Promotion
June 28, 2025
Equity of Access to Medical Care
Equity of access to medical care: a conceptual and empirical overview of how access is defined and measured.
Reading time: 6 minutes
Health Demand, Access & Human Capital, Health Economics, Health Equity, Access & Literacy, Public Health & Health Promotion
June 28, 2025
National Health Surveys and the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use
How national health surveys can be analysed with Andersen’s behavioural model of health services use.
Reading time: 4 minutes
Health Demand, Access & Human Capital, Health Economics, Health Equity, Access & Literacy, Public Health & Health Promotion
June 28, 2025
Understanding the Behavioral Model of Health Services
of Andersen (1995): the behavioral model of health services use, access to medical care, and why the model still matters.
Reading time: 6 minutes
Health Demand, Access & Human Capital, Health Economics, Health Equity, Access & Literacy, Public Health & Health Promotion
June 23, 2025
Unmet Health Needs and Quality of Life in Türkiye
Unmet health needs and quality of life in Türkiye: disparities and policy implications.
Reading time: 2 minutes














