1. Equity and the allocation of health care resources: Proposition or oxymoron?

   • Rosemary R. Lichtman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 255

2. Equity, health, and health care

   • Julian Le Grand

   OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 274

3. The ethical implications of prospective payment and corporate medical practice: A research agenda

   • Lu Ann Aday

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 296

4. Equity, access, and outcomes: The status of the art

   • Nicole Lurie
   • Martin F. Shapiro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 314

5. The distribution of health care financing in the overall population and among the elderly

   • Barbara Wolfe
   • Peter Gottschalk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 328

6. National health policy: Efficiency-equity synchretism

   • Roger M. Battistella
   • Robert J. Buchanan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 360

7. The elderly's access to health care services: The crude and subtle impacts of Medicare changes

   • Marilyn Moon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 375

8. Medicalization and social justice

   • Eugene B. Gallagher
   • Joan Ferrante

   OriginalPaper Pages: 377 - 392