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Article
Authorship
Date
2016
Publishing House and Editing Place
Horizon Research Publishing
Magazine
Universal Journal of Educational Research,
vol. 5
- ISSN 2332-3205
Horizon Research Publishing
Horizon Research Publishing
ISSN
2332-3205
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Research on the connection between social inequality and health care has burgeoned over the past five years. Although Latin America is the continent with the highest disparity in income, this is not parallelled with the development of academic efforts or projects aimed at analysing the impact of socio-economic inequality on health/illness/medical care/healthcare processes. Against that backdrop, this work aims to explore inequalities in health from the perspective of Sen?s capabilities approach...
Research on the connection between social inequality and health care has burgeoned over the past five years. Although Latin America is the continent with the highest disparity in income, this is not parallelled with the development of academic efforts or projects aimed at analysing the impact of socio-economic inequality on health/illness/medical care/healthcare processes. Against that backdrop, this work aims to explore inequalities in health from the perspective of Sen?s capabilities approach. We focus on functioning achieved in health and nutrition practices, and physical activity, in populations from different socio-economic contexts and cultures. Our empirical data is based on a survey carried out in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, in the Argentine North Patagonian region .
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Key Words
HealthInequalitiesCapabilities