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The ideal of equal health revisited: definitions and measures of inequity in health should be better integrated with theories of distributive justice

The past decade witnessed great progress in research on health inequities. The most widely cited definition of health inequity is, arguably, the one proposed by Whitehead and Dahlgren: "Health inequalities that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfair are unjust." We argue that this definiti...

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Autores principales: Norheim, Ole Frithjof, Asada, Yukiko
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19922612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-8-40

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