Health policies and the relationships between socioeconomic status, access to health care, and health

Health policies tend to focus on improving the access to health care of persons of low-socioeconomic status to improve their health. This commentary argues that health policies directly directed at health and socioeconomic status (and other components of individual welfare) will also be effective if...

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Autor principal: Apouey, Bénédicte H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24354849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-2-50
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description Health policies tend to focus on improving the access to health care of persons of low-socioeconomic status to improve their health. This commentary argues that health policies directly directed at health and socioeconomic status (and other components of individual welfare) will also be effective if one wants to improve the well-being of the poor.
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spelling pubmed-38782262014-01-03 Health policies and the relationships between socioeconomic status, access to health care, and health Apouey, Bénédicte H Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Health policies tend to focus on improving the access to health care of persons of low-socioeconomic status to improve their health. This commentary argues that health policies directly directed at health and socioeconomic status (and other components of individual welfare) will also be effective if one wants to improve the well-being of the poor. BioMed Central 2013-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3878226/ /pubmed/24354849 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-2-50 Text en Copyright © 2013 Apouey; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878226/
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