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Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime. Although we mostly follow the economists' custom of regarding equity as …
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Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
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Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
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Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
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This paper considers two societal concerns in addition to health maximisation: first, concerns for the societal value of lifetime health for an individual; and second, concerns for the value of lifetime health across individuals. Health-related social welfare functions (HRSWFs) have addressed...
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-national empirical studies and by theoretical advances. Recent research seems to suggest that there is no efficiency-equity trade-off and …
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constrains patient rights to what is medically feasible, equity-based copayments vary from a percentage of the cost of the … patients, then copayments based on equity lead to a relation between copayments and clinical status that diverges from those … proposals based on efficiency arguments. In particular, we show that equity-based copayments might be increasing in the health …
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constrains patient rights to what is medically feasible, equity-based copayments vary from a percentage of the cost of the … patients, then copayments based on equity lead to a relation between copayments and clinical status that diverges from those … proposals based on efficiency arguments. In particular, we show that equity-based copayments might be increasing in the health …
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Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
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