equity of access according to health care according to need; and improving the impact on health outcomes from the limited … improve cost-effectiveness and equity? This paper argues that answers to these primary questions require research into health … ability to pay, hence equity is a fundamental objective. Secondly, “consumers” of health care do not know how ill they are …

Most people agree that equity has something to do with equality – but equality of what? This paper discusses five … relevant “respects” according to which horizontal or vertical equity for individuals or groups of people might be achieved …-effectiveness either. A seventh principle, equality of access, is also shown to be inadequate. The sources of these equity conflicts, in a …

controversy has raged on the “other objective” of economic policy: equity, which implies that economic and social goods should be … and parallel disregard for the precise specification of equity objectives. However, unless the objectives of the health … system are clearly specified, empirical research can do little to reveal the reasons why equity is important, the extent to …

with another process, concept of equity, equality of access and an end-state concept, equality of health. Each, save the …