Towards health equity: a framework for the application of proportionate universalism
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Carey, Gemma; Crammond, Brad; De Leeuw, Evelyne
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INTRODUCTION: The finding that there is a social gradient in health has prompted considerable interest in public health circles. Recent influential works describing health inequities and their causes do not always argue cogently for a policy framework that would drive the most appropriate solutions differentially across the social gradient This paper aims to develop a practice heuristic for proportionate universalism. METHODS: ...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Carey, Gemma | |
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dc.contributor.author | Crammond, Brad | |
dc.contributor.author | De Leeuw, Evelyne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-16T00:14:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-16T00:14:26Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1475-9276 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/15425 | |
dc.description.abstract | INTRODUCTION: The finding that there is a social gradient in health has prompted considerable interest in public health circles. Recent influential works describing health inequities and their causes do not always argue cogently for a policy framework that would drive the most appropriate solutions differentially across the social gradient This paper aims to develop a practice heuristic for proportionate universalism. METHODS: Through a review the proposed heuristic integrates evidence from welfare state and policy research, the literature on universal and targeted policy frameworks, and a multi-level governance approach that adopts the principle of subsidiarity. RESULTS: The proposed heuristic provides a more-grained analysis of different policy approaches, integral for operationalizing the concept of proportionate universalism. CONCLUSION: The proposed framework would allow governments at all levels, social policy developers and bureaucrats, public health professionals and activists to consider the appropriateness of distinctive policy objectives across distinctive population needs within universal welfare state principles. | |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
dc.rights | © 2015 Carey et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | |
dc.source | International Journal for Equity in Health | |
dc.title | Towards health equity: a framework for the application of proportionate universalism | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
dc.rights.holder | Carey et al. | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 14 | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-09-15 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 160512 - Social Policy | |
local.identifier.absfor | 111799 - Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | U5654936xPUB14 | |
local.publisher.url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Carey, G., Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University | |
local.identifier.essn | 1475-9276 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 81 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12939-015-0207-6 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-02-24T11:37:08Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84941658630 | |
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