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SPECIAL ISSUE |FOREWORD https://doi.org/10.1071/PY23062 Equity in primary health care provision: more than 50 years of the inverse care law A B, Ben Harris-Roxas and Elizabeth Sturgiss * Professor Julian Tudor Hart was a Welsh general practitioner who meticulously For full list of author affiliations and declarations see end of paper documented the inequity in healthcare access and outcomes that he saw for the patients in his disadvantaged community. In this special issue, we have a first-hand account of *Correspondence to: Tudor Hart and his work from Professor Felicity Goodyear-Smith, who worked with him Elizabeth Sturgiss in his practice and saw his commitment to research embedded within clinical practice School of Primary and Allied Health Care, that aimed to improve people’s lives. It’s been just over 50 years since Tudor Monash University, Frankston, Vic., Australia Hart published his seminal paper outlining the Inverse Care Law, ‘the availability Email: liz.sturgiss@monash.edu of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served’ (Hart 1971). This paper has influenced healthcare within many systems and highlighted the need for consciously advocating for appropriate levels of access for at-risk groups and as a driver for universal healthcare. Primary care is recognised
Australian Journal of Primary Health – CSIRO Publishing
Published: Apr 20, 2023
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