Policies for social and health equity: the case for equity sensitive universalism comment on “implementing universal and targeted policies for health equity: lessons from australia”

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I n their recent book on the pandemic Bambra and colleagues1 argue the world is in the grip of a syndemic, described by Singer2 as, "a set of closely intertwined and mutually enhancing health problems that significantly affect the overall health status of a population within the context of a perpetuating configuration of noxious social conditions." Against this backdrop, the article by Fisher and colleagues3 provides timely evidence how positive impacts on health equity from universal and targeted interventions can be maximized. Over the past few decades, the balance between universal and targeted approaches . . .

 



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