Equity in healthcare resource allocation decision making: A systematic review

Haylee Lane, Mitchell Sarkies, Jennifer Martin and Terry Haines

Social Science & Medicine, 2017, vol. 175, issue C, 11-27

Abstract: To identify elements of endorsed definitions of equity in healthcare and classify domains of these definitions so that policy makers, managers, clinicians, and politicians can form an operational definition of equity that reflects the values and preferences of the society they serve.

Keywords: Equity; Decision making; Resource allocation; Healthcare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.12.012

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