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The concern for equity in health [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2002 Abstract In this chapter I would like to reflect on some foundational questions relating to health equity. Why are we concerned with equity in health, and what is its relationship to equity in general? Should we be more concerned about inequalities in health than about inequalities in other dimensions such as income?
S. Anand
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BMJ, 1994 EDITOR, - E S Williams and C M Scott comment on our review of some of the weaknesses of the current methods of allocating resources to NHS regions.1 They argue that the age-cost weights in the current formula assume, in their view wrongly, that all elderly people have the same health needs2 and that we should have made this point in our paper.
Nicholas Mays, Ken Judge
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New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 2000 There is international and local recognition that social and economic factors play a significant role in determining health and well being. Recent policy developments by NSW Health in men’s and women’s health have been based on this recognition.
Andrew J. Gow, Elena Murty
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Health Economics, 2002 Abstract ‘The world . . . is not an inn, but a hospital ‘, said Sir Thomas Browne more than three and half centuries ago, in 1643. That is a discouraging, if not entirely surprising, interpretation of the world from the distinguished author of Religio Medici and Pseudodoxia Epidemica. But Browne may not be entirely wrong: even today (not
Amartya Sen
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Ethics and geographical equity in health care [PDF]
, 2001 Important variations in access to health care and health outcomes are associated with geography, giving rise to profound ethical concerns. This paper discusses the consequences of such concerns for the allocation of health care finance to geographical ...
Nigel Rice, Peter Smith
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Прикладная эконометрика, 2007 This article raises the problem of equity in the health system in Switzerland. Three dimensions of the concept of equity are taken into consideration: the inequality in the financing of the health system, the inequality in the distribution of the state of good health, and, finally, the iniquity in the access to health care.
Gaillard, Gabrielle
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The Lancet, 2004 A physician describes his work with Partners in Health and his public health advocacy work in Haiti and encourages physicians to take health care equity to the global arena. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Paul Farmer
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Considerations for addressing bias in artificial intelligence for health equity
npj Digit. Medicine, 2023 Health equity is a primary goal of healthcare stakeholders: patients and their advocacy groups, clinicians, other providers and their professional societies, bioethicists, payors and value based care organizations, regulatory agencies, legislators, and ...
M. Abràmoff +7 more
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International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2023 Qualitative research amplifies the voices of marginalized communities and thus plays a critical role in shaping our understanding of health inequities and their social determinants.
Sara M. St. George +5 more
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