What health for whom? A challenge for epidemiology.
The ideal of universal access to the best possible health is being replaced by questions of how best to distribute limited health resources. Epidemiology can help to answer these questions by combining its functions of investigation and target-setting. Thus studies on health differences should be aimed at reducing unjust inequalities.
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National Research Council, Pisa, Italy.
D004813:Epidemiology; D014943:Global Health; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D012945:Social Values