How can evidence from economic evaluations of the type the Disease Control Priorities project have synthesized be translated to better priority setting? This evidence provides insights into how investing in health, particularly though priority interventions and expanded access to health insurance and prepaid care, can not only save lives but also help alleviate poverty and provide financial ris...

Health disparities are real. The evidence base is large and irrefutable. As such, the time is now to shift the research emphasis away from solely documenting the pervasiveness of the health disparities problem and begin focusing on health equity, the highest level of health possible. The focus on health equity research will require investigators to propose projects that develop and evaluate evi...

It is interesting to reflect at this time on the issue of Medical Insurance with the demise of UMP so much in the press recently. I am not going to focus on the pros and cons of insurance as such, or on the world-wide insurance industry with its lack of concern for social equity and the genuinely disadvantaged, alongside the obscene payouts to those managers at the top of the scale whether they...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals emphasize the importance of ensuring health and wellbeing all human beings as a necessary precondition for peace prosperity in world. spread egalitarian values modern era has generated discussions about disparities, with renewed calls to lessen inequities vulnerable marginalized populations. This article briefly discusses disparities medicine, fo...

The paper traces the evolution and working of the Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA) and its efforts to promote health equity. GEGA places health equity squarely within a larger framework of social justice, linking findings on socioeconomic and health inequalities with differentials in power, wealth, and prestige in society. The Alliance's 11 country-level partners, called Equity Gauges, share...

BACKGROUND Health equity is a priority in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda and other major health initiatives. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a history of promoting actions to achieve equity in health, including efforts to encourage the practice of health inequality monitoring. Health inequality monitoring systems use disaggregated data to identify disadvantaged subgroups w...

This article addresses several issues pertinent to health systems governance for health equity. It argues the importance of health systems using measures of positive health (well-being), discriminating in favour of historically less advantaged groups and weighing the costs of health care against investments in the social determinants of health. It cautions that the concept of governance could w...

Background Although the global growth of privatized health care services in the form of medical tourism appears to generate economic benefits, there is debate about medical tourism's impacts on health equity in countries that receive medical tourists. Studies of the processes of economic globalization in relation to social determinants of health suggest that medical tourism's impacts on health ...

In national and international journals, dedication to the subject of social medicine and interrelated issues, such as health equity, social and cultural determinants in health and access to health care, is still rather simplistic. In a scenario of global crisis, Europe and Latin America are facing a time where they must rethink their respective health systems, as in the case of the Unified Heal...