ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Paul R Ward (2009), the relevance of equity in health care for primary care: creating and sustaining a 'fair go, for a fair innings', Public Health Research, Department of Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Radcliffe Publishing, Australia. Quality in Primary Care 2009; 17: 49-54

This reference gives a lens of equity that helps researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to monitor and measure the provided healthcare services' equity. Discussion in opposition to the mostly used terms of disparities and inequalities for the services that required to be assessed and monitor in the form of inequities has been made in the article. It is not only a semantic explanation; relatively it's backed by the basis that provisions of the services must be justified in a social context. The article then discusses a number of the important areas engaged in measurement of the health care equity -utilization, need, and access. The article ends with a number of the causes for the existing problems of healthcare equity in services of healthcare and the suggestions for future approaches for development of more equitable services of healthcare has also been given.

Healthcare equity is based on the principle that all people should aspire to a state of optimal health and should not be limited in this respect by their social class, age, gender, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status their race or other social attributes (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 2006). This focus is on understanding the combination or pathways of elements that direct to a move towards equity of healthcare and improvement in the health of people, for a country. Ways that function at each and every level of the system (i.e. macro and Micro) are interesting, comprising those coinciding with transitions of individual (eg. life stages) and social changes (former demographic and economic changes, urbanization). Understanding of ways to promote equity and health inequities is essential to designing effective interventions on population health in the context of developed and developing countries.

This priority is justified by the existence of considerable scientific information describing the origin of health inequities (Butler-Jones, 2008; CSDH, 2008). Inequities in healthcare cover unavoidable and avoidable variations in the subpopulations' status of health. These differences are associated with exposure to a variety of etiologic factors, including the social, biological, chemical, and physical. Broad study conducted in a range of situations and various healthcare problems reveal a constant socioeconomic gradient of health.

However, the researches results seem increasingly indicate that health gradient does not result solely of material deprivation. For example, although the poor in societies where socio-economic inequalities are the most blatant display a lower health status, it has been shown that these inequalities have negative effects on health in all social strata (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2006). Some biological phenomena that explain these affect (eg. Influence of stressors on cortical levels) are well documented. Health inequities question our values ??as a society and lead us to ask whether these changes in health are unjust and avoidable. We need to better understand the dynamics between intrinsic ...