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Editorial: promoting equity in health: what role for courts?
One of the most significant transformations to occur in the landscape of struggles for health justice since this journal was originally launched relates to the increasing judicialization of health-related rights, and economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights) more broadly. Indeed, the articles in this issue go far toward debunking outdated conceptions about health rights as merely "prog...
متن کاملGuest Editorial: Health, Equity, and the Built Environment
of Silent Spring in 1962. In her classic book, Rachel Carson warned of the effects of pesticides on wildlife ecology, invoking a nightmarish die-off of songbirds in the book’s title. However, she also warned of human health effects, both acute and chronic, from liver damage to neurotoxicity to cancer (Carson 1962). In the ensuing decades, environmental health essentially became synonymous with ...
متن کاملEditorial: health of nomadic pastoralists: new approaches towards equity effectiveness.
Nomadic pastoralists of the African Sahel, the high steppes of central Asia (including the Tibetan Plateau and Mongolia), parts of the Near and Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and India use mobility to manage uncertainty and risk in arid and semiarid ecosystems (Scoones 1994). In these areas, livelihoods are threatened by drought, diseases, insects and war, among other calamities. Semiarid p...
متن کاملReducing 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...
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...
متن کاملDefining equity in health.
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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