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World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development
(World Bank Publications, 2005)
The World Development Report 2006: Equity and Opportunitypresents a social development strategy organized around the themes of social inclusion, cohesion, and accountability. It examines equality of opportunities--a ...
10 best resources on ... health equity
(Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2007)
An astute bureaucratic pundit named Rufus Miles once observed that ‘where you stand depends on where you sit’ (Miles 1978). This ‘Miles Law’ deserves to be kept centrally in mind when considering not only traditional ...
Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery
(Handbook of Health Economics, 2000)
The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving intemational and temporal comparisons. There is, ...
Equity Action Framework
(Race forward, 2009)
Health inequities and social justice: The moral foundations of public health
(Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 2008)
Recently we argued that social justice is concerned with human well-being, which is best understood as involving plural, irreducible dimensions, each of which represents something of independent moral significance. Health ...
Health Inequities and the Social Determinants of Health
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006)
The health of individuals and populations is influenced
by many variables. These include genetics and biology,
but perhaps more important than these are the social determinants
of health. The social, political and ...
Defining equity in health
(Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2003)
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, ...
The Concern for Health Equity
(Oxford University Press 2004, 2004)
HEALTH DISPARITIES AND HEALTH EQUITY: Concepts and Measurement
(Annual Review of Public Health, 2006)
There is little consensus about the meaning of the terms “health disparities,” “health inequalities,” or “health equity.” The definitions can have important practical consequences, determining the measurements that are ...