The Ethical Conception Of Equity In Health Care

The notion of “equity” is an ethical conception which comes under the principles of distributive justice. Equity refers to either social justice or fairness (Beauchamp, 2009; Daniels, Kennedy, & Kawachi, 1999). Equity in health care system has been discussed across the globe. The concept of equity in health care means the absence of preventable inequalities or health disparities. In other words, equity in health care suggests that every individual is having adequate access to health in order to maintain a good health status and wellbeing (P. A. Braveman et al., 2011). Furthermore, equity in health is not merely having a fairness in health care resources utilisation, but it refers to the fairness in the resource allocation, financing in health