This paper offers an analysis of the concepts access and equity using CLA to highlight the complexity of the discourse and the nature of the contested conceptual space. An historical context is used to situate the discourse and place the tension between open ended and closed interpretations of these terms in their historicalcultural context. The social imaginary is applied to the field of socia...

This paper discusses the issue of equity in the distribution of ARV drugs in the Malawi health system. Malawi is one of the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. It is also one of the poorest countries in the world. ARV drugs are expensive.The Malawi government, with assistance from the Global Fund on Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV/AIDS, started providing free ARV drug...

Since the 1976 appointment of the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP), health care equity has been an explicit goal of resource allocation within the NHS. According to this principle, health care resources should be geographically distributed to ensure ‘equal opportunity of access to health care for people at equal risk’. RAWP was superseded by the Resource Allocation Group in 1995, which ...

Background: It is important to set up hospitals, since they play a key role in providing health care services based on the budget allocated to the health sector. Objective:  This study evaluated factors militating against the establishment of hospitals in Iran. It also emphasized the importance of health care services. Methods: This...

INTRODUCTION Equity should be implicit within universal health coverage (UHC) however, emerging evidence is showing that without adequate focus on measurement of equity, vulnerable populations may continue to receive inadequate or inferior health care. This study undertakes a narrative review which aims to: (i) elucidate how equity is contextualised and measured within UHC, and (ii) describe to...

the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between customer equity and the performance of parsian international hotels corporation. for this reason it’s an applied and descriptive research. a review of the current literature revealed three key determinants of customer equity: (1)value equity, (2) brand equity and (3) relationship equity. in order to examine the proposed hy...