Equity of Access to Health Care: Some Conceptual and Ethical Issues
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society
- Vol. 60 (1) , 51-81
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3349700
Abstract
Problems of defining equity and equality of access are not trivial; there are fundamental disagreements about the nature of health care as a social good and about other principles of distributive justice. Presuppositions about equity underlying several current proposals for reform of health care "markets" are considered. Issues of equity--and theories of justice--arise also in contexts other than disputes about access.Keywords
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