ETHICS AND EQUITY IN U.S. HEALTH CARE: THE DATA

Access to and equality in health care has deteriorated in the 1980s, as shown by the data on racial differences in reducing infant mortality rates, in life expectancy, and in the incidence and economic burden of AIDS. Various health status measures indicate significant declines with decreasing incom...

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Published in:International journal of health services 1991, Vol.21 (4), p.637-651
Main Author: Rice, Dorothy P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - economics
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - epidemiology
AIDS/HIV
Bioethics
Biological and medical sciences
Equity
Ethics
Federal Government
Female
Health Care
Health Care Utilization
Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data
Health Services - utilization
Health Services Accessibility - economics
Health Services Accessibility - standards
Health Status
Humans
Infant
Infant Mortality
Infant, Newborn
Insurance, Health - statistics & numerical data
Internationality
Life Expectancy
Male
Medical sciences
Medically Uninsured - statistics & numerical data
Miscellaneous
Poverty - statistics & numerical data
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Section on Ethics and Equity in U.S. and Canadian Health Care
Social Inequality
Social Justice
U.S.A
United States
United States of America
Vulnerable Populations
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Summary:Access to and equality in health care has deteriorated in the 1980s, as shown by the data on racial differences in reducing infant mortality rates, in life expectancy, and in the incidence and economic burden of AIDS. Various health status measures indicate significant declines with decreasing income, and the use of medical care services is higher for low-income groups. The growing number of uninsured and underinsured persons has exacerbated the problem. A consensus is emerging among diverse groups that health care should be extended to those who do not have access to it and that providing universal and affordable health care is a major national health priority.
ISSN:0020-7314
1541-4469
DOI:10.2190/N70D-H1U1-TFYY-7PVB