The concepts and principles of equity and health

Whitehead, Margaret

doi:10.1093/heapro/6.3.217

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“…As indicated by Margret Whitehead, not all inequalities in health can be described as inequities 29. The term inequity refers to inequalities in health that are unnecessary and avoidable.…”

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Reducing regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries through enforcement of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Taiwan

Lai

Chiang

2011

Inj Prev

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Background This study was conducted to examine whether passage of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in 1997 reduced the regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries (RTIs) across 22 cities/counties in Taiwan. Methods We calculated the absolute (between-group variance, BGV) and relative (rate ratio between the city/ county with the highest and lowest rate, RR) terms of inequality for the overall and motorcycle-related RTI mortality rates, the rate of helmet use and three other explanatory factors associated with RTI mortality at the city/county level from 1997 through 2008. Results The BGV of the overall and motorcycle-related RTI mortality rates across the 22 cities/counties showed persistently decreasing trends from 1997 to 2008; however, the RR of RTI mortality first increased and then levelled off from 2002. The decreasing trend in inequality was most prominent in males aged 0e24 years. The BGV and RR of the rate of motorcycle helmet use decreased after passage of the law but increased from 2002 onwards. Conclusion In Taiwan, passage of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law reduced the regional inequality in RTI mortality; however, a resurgence in regional inequality in the helmet use rate years after passage of the helmet law was noted. It is therefore necessary to monitor the helmet use rate after passage of such a law to ensure the effect of a reduction in regional inequality in RTI mortality.

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“…As indicated by Margret Whitehead, not all inequalities in health can be described as inequities 29. The term inequity refers to inequalities in health that are unnecessary and avoidable.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reducing regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries through enforcement of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Taiwan

Lai

Chiang

2011

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“…Thus, a radical egalitarian conception of the right to health must include also the idea of equality of welfare, where welfare is understood as absence (or a significant decrease) of pain or suffering.'' Such a conception of the right to health is broader than the other two attempts to define an egalitarian right to health care, that of Margaret Whitehead and that proposed by Robert Veatch (Veatch 1998;Whitehead 1992). Whitehead claims that '[E]quity in health implies that ideally everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential, and, more pragmatically, that none should be disadvantaged from achieving this potential, if this can be avoided' (Whitehead 1992: 433).…”

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The Liberal Grounding of the Right to Health Care

Filc¹

2007

Theoria

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The language of rights is increasingly used to regulate access to health care and allocation of resources in the health care field. The right to health has been grounded on different theories of justice. Scholars within the liberal tradition have grounded the right to health care on Rawls's two principles of justice. Thus, the right to health care has been justified as being one of the basic liberties, as enabling equality of opportunity, or as being justified by the maximin principle. In this article, Filc analyzes—from a radical egalitarian standpoint—the limitations of the different attempts to ground an equal right to health on Rawls's theory of justice and offers a first approximation to a radical egalitarian formulation of the right to health.

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“…When this is the case, the guidelines should apply the general principles of equitable service–that is, “everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full potential and… no-one should be disadvantaged from achieving this potential, if it can be avoided.”24 Approaches include targeting interventions that take intoaccount the structural, material, economic, and environmental constraints experienced by population subgroups 2…”

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Using socioeconomic evidence in clinical practice guidelines

Aldrich

2003

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The concepts and principles of equity and health

Cited by 911 publications

References 9 publications

Reducing regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries through enforcement of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Taiwan

Reducing regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries through enforcement of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Taiwan

The Liberal Grounding of the Right to Health Care

Using socioeconomic evidence in clinical practice guidelines

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