Progress in the research on the fairness of health services
- VernacularTitle:卫生服务的公平性研究进展
- Author:
Lingzhong XU
;
Yuanyuan BING
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Fairness;
Measurement index
- From:
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration
1996;0(05):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Fairness, which is of special importance to health economy policies, has the following three major implications: fairness of the state of health, fairness of the delivery of health services and fairness of health fundraising. Traditional methods for measuring fairness include those of range, Lorentz curve, Jeany coefficient, difference index, and, for measuring unfairness, those of slope index, relative index and comprehensive curve. Recently WHO put forward 3 new fairness indexes and measurement methods, viz. measuring the fairness of residents health via the distribution index of child survival rate and disability adjusted life expectancy; measuring the fairness of the delivery of health services via reactivity; and measuring the fairness of health fundraising via the fairness and reasonableness index for the contributions of funds.
