The equitable allocation of health care resources is a central goal in many health systems. Scholars from economics, political science, philosophy, ethics and other areas have offered many alternative conceptions of an equitable, or just, allocation of health care resources. In their seminal...

In this article we analyse the rates at which those admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) receive aggressive treatment, assess how those rates have changed over time, and ask whether there is evidence of age discrepancies. Estimates made on the basis of data from an...