title: How Can a Global Social Support System Hope to Achieve Fairer Competiveness? Comment on "A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States' National Basketball Association".
abstract: Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. This commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the National Basketball Association (NBA) example as a point of reference. From this, the minimal conditions are described that would be required for the support system, proposed in the article by Ooms et al, to succeed.
authors.affiliation: UCL Institute of Health Equity, UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goldblatt
mesh_terms: D001490:Basketball; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
keywords: Capacity Building; Governance; Gradient; Inequality; Proportionate Universalism