The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society
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Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc · Jan 1982
ReviewEquity of access to health care: some conceptual and ethical issues.
Problems of defining equity and equality of access are not trivial; there are fundamental disagreements about the nature of health care as a social good and about other principles of distributive justice. Presuppositions about equity underlying several current proposals for reform of health care "markets" are considered. Issues of equity--and theories of justice--arise also in contexts other than disputes about access.