The ethics of everyday practice in primary medical care: responding to social health inequities

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 5:1-8 (2010)
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Abstract

Social and structural inequities shape health and illness; they are an everyday presence within the doctor-patient encounter yet, there is limited ethical guidance on what individual physicians should do. This paper draws on a study that explored how doctors and their professional associations ought to respond to the issue of social health inequities

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