Hart, Julian Tudor (1971) The inverse care law. The Lancet, 297, (7696), pp. 405-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(71)92410-X.
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The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served. This inverse care law operates more completely where medical care is most exposed to market forces, and less so where such exposure is reduced. The market distribution of medical care is a primitive and historically outdated social form, and any return to it would further exaggerate the maldistribution of medical resources.
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care administration > Health care quality control
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care economics
L Social psychology and related concepts > Life circumstances
MA-ML Social science, culture and community > Social condition > Poverty / deprivation
VA Geographic area > International
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