Title: Making health systems more equitable

Authors: Gwatkin, Davidson R. and Bhuiya, Abbas and Victora, Cesar G.

Place: [London]

Publisher: The Lancet

Year: 2004

Journal: The Lancet

Volume: vol. 364, issue 9441

PAGE: 1273--1280

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health care delivery, health services, poverty

Abstract: Article with the conclusion that health systems are consistently inequitable, providing more and higher quality services to the well-off than the poor who are unable to obtain them. The availability of good medical care tends are vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.

URL: http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673604171456.pdf?id=5bbe37e152166496:3c1a3712:1252afd308a:2b501259149989575

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