The ideal of equal health revisited: definitions and measures of inequity in health should be better integrated with theories of distributive justice.

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Published in Int J Equity Health on November 18, 2009

Authors

Ole Frithjof Norheim1, Yukiko Asada

Author Affiliations

1: Research group in Global Health, Ethics, Culture and Economics, Department of Public Health and Primary Care & Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway. ole.norheim@isf.uib.no.

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