The result is a piecemeal and inequitable service provision across the country, at odds with the ethos of the National Health Service.
Only four studies explored the equity dimension of investments, with three (Chizema-Kawesha et al. 2010; Jia et al. 2010; Noor et al. 2007) showing positive benefits of overcoming inequitable service provision.
In HC1, HC3 and HC4, tensions around the inequitable service conditions of providers working in ART clinics appeared to exacerbate the apathy and disillusion with which many other providers went about their work.
It should be judged by the number of women whose deaths during pregnancy or childbirth are perceived not as tragic casualties of inequitable health services, but accepted as noble martyrdom as they pursue their biological purpose.
CHW programmes were initiated in the 1970s by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in response to the inadequate and intentionally inequitable PHC services under the apartheid government (7– 10).
There is inequitable frenotomy service provision across the UK due to a lack of evidence and health professionals being unconvinced of its need or efficacy.
User fees, commonly called the 'cash and carry'a system in Ghana, undoubtedly contributed to inequitable health service access and utilization between different socio-economic groups and between poor rural and richer urban dwellers [ 15, 16].
In Europe and among US Medicare beneficiaries, this complementary effect may be increasing inequitable access to services, an element not yet studied in these jurisdictions.
While these systems aim to increase transit mode options as well as overall bicycle ridership, bike share programs also face challenges and criticisms related to density and inequitable distribution of services.
Inequitable provision of services or biased curriculum and teaching methods can reinforce existing exclusion and stereotypes.
