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Promoting Equity in Health
Promoting equity in health is not an easy task. Current trends in the global economy, in the environment and in the scientific and technological development are all conducive to increasing disparities in exposure to risk factors for ill health as well as in access to health services. Indeed, available data point to increasing inequalities in health outcomes among countries and within countries ...
متن کاملPromoting health equity.
The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health brought the reduction of avoidable health inequalities between social groups to the centre of the political stage. Its three key recommendations—to improve daily living conditions; to tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources; and to measure and understand the problem—have been widely welcomed. As the commission itself...
متن کاملGlobal health, equity, and primary care.
Global health provides a special challenge for primary care and general practice, which will become increasingly important in the future as the prevalence of multimorbidity increases with increasing likelihood of survival from acute manifestations of illness, as populations age, and as costs of care increase with increasing availability of technologic interventions. World organizations of prima...
متن کاملPrimary care priorities in addressing health equity: summary of the WONCA 2013 health equity workshop
BACKGROUND Research consistently shows that gaps in health and health care persist, and are even widening. While the strength of a country's primary health care system and its primary care attributes significantly improves populations' health and reduces inequity (differences in health and health care that are unfair and unjust), many areas, such as inequity reduction through the provision of h...
متن کاملEquity in health care.
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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Primary Health Care Open Access
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2167-1079
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1079.1000216