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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2006 31(1):11-32; DOI:10.1215/03616878-31-1-11
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Part I. Policies Related to Health Care Equity in Cross-National Perspectives

State of the Art in Research on Equity in Health

Barbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

This essay provided the introduction to a workshop in Bellagio, Italy, on the subject of translating research into policy for equity in health. The essay first defines equity in a way that facilitates its assessment and monitoring and then summarizes evidence from existing research. Directions for developing policy strategies follow from these principles. The role of health services in influencing the distribution of health in populations is discussed in the special context of primary-care-oriented health systems that are, at the same time, more effective, more efficient, and more equity producing than is the case for specialist-dominated health systems.




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