Incorporating concepts of inequality and inequity into health benefits analysis
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Incorporating concepts of inequality and inequity into health benefits analysis
BACKGROUND Although environmental policy decisions are often based in part on both risk assessment information and environmental justice concerns, formalized approaches for addressing inequality or inequity when estimating the health benefits of pollution control have been lacking. Inequality indicators that fulfill basic axioms and agree with relevant definitions and concepts in health benefit...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-5-2