[Inequity in health: its historical development]. / La inequidad en salud: su desarrollo histórico.
Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica
; 30(4): 709-13, 2013.
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Health inequity, main issue of contemporary debates on public health, is based on philosophical and historical concepts that date back to the idea of justice from classic Greece. The Aristotelian approach on distributive justice and its higher form, epiekeia or equity, has been reviewed, as well as how this evolves from the Middle Ages and modernity to the heart of the debate of a variety of thinkers such as liberal Rawls and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. On this conceptual debate lies the World Health Organization version that links equity to health determinants and intends to make it operational through the equitable provision of health services.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Disparidades em Assistência à Saúde
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Peru