Ontario is in the midst of major health care reform, and one of the goals is to equalize the
care available across the province. The authors of a study on the health status of people …

The provision of health care and preventive services that has evolved in Canada was based
on the concept of equality. Within any one province all but a few selected groups pay equal …

In American political culture, as in much of Western political thought, the proposition that
men are and ought to be treated as equal in the eyes of polity, law, and society is highly …

Natasha Thomsen, MPS In December 2004, the W Montague Cobb/National Medical
Association Health Policy Institute was launched as an initiative to re-duce health disparities …

In spite of persistent problems, progress of the last 40 years gives grounds for optimism
about trends toward equity in health care. In the United States, substantial improvements …

If the fundamental goals of the health care reform effort are to ensure universal access to an
acceptable quality of health care at an affordable cost, then the threshold question for reform …

For more than two decades, polls have shown that Americans are dissatisfied with their
current health care system. However, the public's views on how to change the current …

Abstract The Commission on Social Determinants of Health recognized the important role of
health services as a determinant of health. While asserting that health was not a tradable …

Health equity has long been an ideal, with roots in social medicine reaching back into the
mid-nineteenth century when visionary public health leaders and social critics recognized …

This proposal for health system reform, known as Equicare, was developed for the 1994
gubernatorial primary race in Pennsylvania. But incomplete access, inadequacies in public …