Healthcare Economist February 6, 2025
According to the World Health Organization, “Three distinguishing features, when combined, turn mere variations or differences in health into a social inequity in health. They are systematic, socially produced (and therefore modifiable) and unfair.
That is how an ISPOR Special Interest Group Report by Griffiths et al. (2025) begins. The health equity primer provides and overview of the literature. The paper identifies a number of key sources of social disadvantage: “socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, gender, geographic location, disability” among others.
While reducing health disparities is a laudable goal, there are a number of other priorities that also go into the social welfare function including “…concern for efficiency in increasing total health, concern to prioritize severely ill patients,...
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