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Reducing Health Inequities Through Intersectoral Action: Balancing Equity in Health With Equity for Other Social Goods
Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit of health equity may be at odds w...
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It has long been known that a segment of the population enjoys distinctly better health status and higher quality of health care than others. To solve this problem, prioritization is unavoidable, and the question is how priorities should be set. Rational priority setting would seek equity amongst the whole population, the extent to which people receive equal care for equal needs. Equity in heal...
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STUDY OBJECTIVE To propose a definition of health equity to guide operationalisation and measurement, and to discuss the practical importance of clarity in defining this concept. DESIGN Conceptual discussion. Setting, Patients/Participants, and Main results: not applicable. CONCLUSIONS For the purposes of measurement and operationalisation, equity in health is the absence of systematic disp...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32171-2