"AIDS pointed up the inequitable status of gays," Mr. McFarlane told The Times in 1983.
These farm bills, in short, are not about the drought but about preserving an inequitable status quo.
These districts could only be considered "losers" if one takes the inequitable status quo as the "just" starting point, neglecting both decades of relative funding inequities and any absolute notion of fairness.
The key factors of inequitable accessibility are socioeconomic status, transportation, and geography [ 6, 10].
In Mexico, older adults are a growing vulnerable group with underprivileged socioeconomic conditions, poor health status and inequitable access to healthcare.
The equity lens is meant to be a perspective which is sensitive to the socioeconomic, political and cultural contexts that create health inequities, and so can be used to identify and track inequitable differences in health status.
Others claimed that user charges should at least not be applied to some vulnerable groups because their utilization of health-care services is appropriate, not excessive, and user charges could have a detrimental and inequitable effect on their health status as supported by [7, 15, 25] and [24].
Also in Germany, in three regions of the country, a population-based study of 10,000 people found only 8% of those with migraine used triptans and only 2.3% received preventative treatment, both positively associated with socio-economic status [24] and suggesting inequitable access to health care.
Although not all of the measures of gender inequity were associated with unplanned and unwanted pregnancies in this study, there is evidence that inequitable gender power relations and low socioeconomic status do increase risk.
Weber's theory of bureaucracy, however, emphasizes not only its comparative technical and proficiency advantages but also attributes its dominance as a form of organization to the diminution of caste systems (such as feudalism) and other forms of inequitable social relations based upon a person's status.
More studies are needed to understand how economic status, gender and caste jointly cause inequitable access to maternal and reproductive health in the context of India, and interventions targeting marginalized and vulnerable groups needs to take all three factors into consideration.
