Health Equity: Conceptual Models, Essential Aspects and the Perspective of Collective Health

This paper analyzes the concept of health equity, drawing on ideas of social justice, of rights and values, and of the social and economic determinants which define living conditions and power relations among social groups. Differing schools of thought concerning health inequality and inequity in he...

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Main Authors: Oliva López-Arellano, Nivaldo Linares-Péreza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Medicine Publication Group 2008-09-01
Series:Social Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/243