Od równego dostępu do sprawiedliwości zdrowotnej
From Equal Access to Health Equity

Summary/Abstract: The paper traces changes in understanding justice in health from identifying it with the just distribution of healthcare to the concept of health equity. The concept of equitableaccess to healthcare was outlined and difficulties faced by its realisation in conditions of thecommodification of healthcare were indicated. The impact of the conception of socialdeterminants of health and social gradient in health on thinking about health justice wasdiscussed. The theoretical grounding of those ideas in the capability approach, whichassigns intrinsic value to health and perceives health as an essential element of full humanflourishing, was shown. The limited reception of the conception of social determinants of health and social gradient in health policy documents was considered.

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