Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, Email id: livdhaliwal@ymail.com
Online published on 10 April, 2019.
The concept of health equity has been under wider discussion these days as it is been linked to the Sustainable Development Goal 3 directly and indirectly to other goals also. This paper aims at defining and explaining the core idea of health equity as well as health disparities and their importance in a developing nation like India. The paper also looks into various socio economic determinants of health disparities and issues pertaining to them. In the final section the paper gives principles that can guide equity in health in developing countries as India and the step wise procedure that should be followed.
Health Equity, Health Disparities, Poverty, Social Inclusion, Health Care, Education
