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Equity, by what measure?
Author(s) -
Houston Shane
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he06206
Subject(s) - equity (law) , disadvantage , value (mathematics) , economics , measure (data warehouse) , actuarial science , public economics , microeconomics , computer science , mathematics , law , political science , statistics , database
Equity has in many instances been framed around the notion of fairness. But the metric used to determine what is fair leaves some people at a disadvantage because the things that they value are not always taken properly into account. If I value mangoes and you value oranges is a measure of fairness based on how many oranges I seek appropriate? If I am expected to give up my love of mangoes in order to get ahead is that fair? The debate about judging equity – about measuring fairness – needs to find the conceptual and methodological space to allow the voices and claims of the other to be heard.