What's wrong with our health equity slogans? - solutions - east ...

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Aims of this talk• To suggest that four common health equityslogans are not very helpful if you reallycare about justice and fairness• To try to explain why that’s so• To offer you nine useful slogans to toutinstead (if you really care)2
Four poor slogans• health care ought to be allocated in proportion toa person’s need• geographical allocation of health care resources(generally, purchasing budgets) ought to beallocated in proportion to the population’s needin each area• access/utilization of health care ought to beequal for all members of society• efficiency and equity in health and health careusually conflict and, when they do, equity trumpsefficiency3
Page 1: What’s wrong with our healthequit
Page 5 and 6: Equity is not the same as equalityT
Page 7 and 8: Relevant respects• need: equal tr
Page 9 and 10: Necessary steps• a policy answer
Page 11 and 12: More new slogans• the largest dif

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