Health Care and Equality of Opportunity

Author: Sreenivasan, Gopal

Source: Hastings Center Report, March-April 2007 , pp. 21-31(11)

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Abstract:

One widely accepted way of justifying universal access to health care is to argue that access to health care is necessary to ensure health, which is necessary to provide equality of opportunity. But the evidence on the social determinants of health undermines this argument.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-03-01

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