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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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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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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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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 distri-bution of the state ...
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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Implementation Research: An Efficient and Effective Tool to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 Success in the implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in different settings has had variable success. Implementation research offers the approach needed to understand the variability of health outcomes from implementation strategies in ...
Agnes Binagwaho +7 more
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The health equity mandate [PDF]
Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2022 ABSTRACT People of color and the poor die younger than the White and prosperous. And when they are alive, they are sicker. Health inequity is morally tragic. But it is also economically inefficient, raising the nation’s healthcare bill and lowering productivity.
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Why and how a university in Rwanda is training its medical students in one health
Communications Medicine, 2022 Bayisenge et al. describe teaching One Health approaches to medical students at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Wider implementation of this approach should enable a better response to the health challenges of our changing planet.
Ursin Bayisenge +3 more
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