Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Oct 2007
ReviewSetting priorities in global child health research investments: addressing values of stakeholders.
To identify main groups of stakeholders in the process of health research priority setting and propose strategies for addressing their systems of values. ⋯ Involving a large group of stakeholders when setting priorities in health research investments is important because the criteria of relevance to scientists and technical experts, whose knowledge and technical expertise is usually central to the process, may not be appropriate to specific contexts and in accordance with the views and values of those who invest in health research, those who benefit from it, or wider society as a whole.
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Poverty, a complex, multidimensional, and universal problem, has been conceptualized as income and material deprivation. In this article, we discuss poverty and related factors in Turkey. The absolute poverty line for Turkey was US$ 4 per capita per day. ⋯ Among poor people, 57.2% were married. The highest poverty rate was among agricultural workers (46.6%) and in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia. Factors related to poverty were crowded households, unemployment, immigration, working for a daily wage in the agricultural and construction sector, low educational status, female sex or married status, lacking social insurance, and living in rural areas or in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia.
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Croatian medical journal · Oct 2007
ReviewIs HIV/AIDS epidemic outcome of poverty in sub-saharan Africa?
Undisputable fact is that 14000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa are being infected daily with HIV and 11000 are dying every day due to HIV/AIDS related illnesses. In this region more than 60% of the people live below UN poverty line of US$ 1 per day. ⋯ This article, therefore, shows that HIV is an important outcome of poverty, with sexual trade, migration, polygamy, and teenage marriages as its predictors in the Sub Saharan region. I used the examples of 20 countries with the highest poverty level in the region to demonstrate the gravity of the HIV scourge, using the data from different international databases.
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Croatian medical journal · Oct 2007
Comparative StudyDifferences that hurt: self-perceived health inequalities in Croatia and the European Union.
To investigate the differences in self-reported health status and access to health care according to different income groups, urbanization level, and regional distribution in Croatia and European Union (EU) countries. ⋯ Significant differences were found among 4 income quartiles in Croatia and two EU country groups in all indicators: self-perceived health status, satisfaction with health, having long-standing illness or disability, access to health care according to four indicators (distance to the nearest medical facility, delay in getting an appointment, waiting time to see the doctor on the day of the appointment, and the cost of seeing the doctor), and the quality of health services. Higher proportion of the Croatian citizens in the lowest income quartile reported poor health (27.8%) than their counterparts in the EU15 (9.2%) or NMS (18.6%). In Croatia, 26% respondents in the lowest quartile perceived the distance to the nearest medical facility as a very serious problem, compared with 5.4% in the EU15 and 9.4% in the NMS. Rural urban proportion ratio of those who reported poor health was about 80% higher in Croatia than in both EU country groups. Rural-urban proportion ratio of those who reported the cost of seeing the doctor as a very serious problem was almost 2-fold higher than in the two EU country groups. CONCLUSION. Health inequalities were more marked in Croatia than in EU countries, which should be taken into serious consideration in shaping health care reforms in Croatia.
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Croatian medical journal · Oct 2007
Comparative StudyMortality of Roma population in Serbia, 2002-2005.
To describe and compare mortality and population changes in the Roma and non-Roma population in Serbia in 2002 and 2005. ⋯ Our data show that mortality rates in the Roma population are significantly higher than in the general population, and morbidity structure of the most common causes of death significantly different from that of general population.