The nature and significance of equity and equality in relation to health and healthcare policy is discussed in the light of a recent article by Culyer. Culyer makes the following claims: (a) the importance of equity in relation to the provision of health care derives from the human need for health in order to flourish; and (b) for the sake of equity, equality of health among the members of part...

Leading health commentators have called for health equity to be made a measureable endpoint of health technology assessment (HTA) (Daniels et al., 2016; Horton, 2013). Nowhere is this more important than in low income countries on the path to universal health coverage, where reducing inequalities in health care, health outcomes and protection from the financial risks of ill-health are central p...

Objective. To assess the change in five health equity dimensions for the Colombian health system: health condition, social health insurance coverage, health services utilization, quality, and health expenditure. Methods. A common standardization methodology was used to assess equity in countries in the western hemisphere. Data come from the Colombian Life Quality Survey. After indirect standard...

OBJECTIVE To assess the change in five health equity dimensions for the Colombian health system: health condition, social health insurance coverage, health services utilization, quality, and health expenditure. METHODS A common standardization methodology was used to assess equity in countries in the western hemisphere. Data come from the Colombian Life Quality Survey. After indirect standard...

BACKGROUND Human rights approaches to health have been criticized as antithetical to equity, principally because they are seen to prioritise rights of individuals at the expense of the interests of groups, a core tenet of public health. The objective of this study was to identify how human rights approaches can promote health equity. METHODS The Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa ...

BACKGROUND To reduce the health inequity, it is necessary to measure and monitor these inequalities. In this regard, in Iran a plan was developed and accordingly 52 indicators to measure equity in health were developed and announced by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with other sectors. This study aims to obtain a deeper understanding of the development of health equity indicators and i...

While in theory the strength of preferences for equity in health can be expressed in an 'inequality aversion parameter', in practice, analysts would have to obtain them from people's choices. We are faced with a number of methodological problems when turning to this type of empirical research. This note investigates which types of preference could explain the choices people make when responding...

Urban places and health equity are two of the most challenging concepts for 21st century environmental health. More people live in cities than at any other time in human history and health inequities are increasing. Health inequities are avoidable differences in the social, environmental and political conditions that shape morbidity and mortality, and disproportionately burden the poor, racial,...