Measuring global health inequity
Open Access
- 30 October 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal for Equity in Health
- Vol. 6 (1) , 16
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-6-16
Abstract
Notions of equity are fundamental to, and drive much of the current thinking about global health. Health inequity, however, is usually measured using health inequality as a proxy – implicitly conflating equity and equality. Unfortunately measures of global health inequality do not take account of the health inequity associated with the additional, and unfair, encumbrances that poor health status confers on economically deprived populations.Keywords
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