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The fallacy of the equity-efficiency trade off: rethinking the efficient health system

In the health systems literature one can see discussions about the trade off between the equity achievable by the system and its efficiency. Essentially it is argued that as greater health equity is achieved, so the level of efficiency will diminish. This argument is borrowed from economics literatu...

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Autores principales: Reidpath, Daniel D, Olafsdottir, Anna Elisabet, Pokhrel, Subhash, Allotey, Pascale
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22992346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-S1-S3