Revisiting “Who Gets Care?”
Advances in Nursing SciencePublished 1 April 2009
Bernie Pauly, Karen MacKinnon, Colleen Varcoe
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This article revisits and reaffirms Patricia Steven's earlier work on access to healthcare as an important arena for nursing action and proposes a conceptualization of social justice that is consistent with addressing the conditions that influence health inequities.
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This article revisits and reaffirms Patricia Steven's earlier work on access to healthcare as an important arena for nursing action. Many of the conditions that affect access to healthcare, such as racism and oppression, also shape inequities in health outcomes. We propose a conceptualization of social justice that is consistent with addressing the conditions that influence health inequities. We also discuss the implications of a critical and feminist conception of social justice for nursing action, education, practice, research, and policy.
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