EQUITY AND THE UK NATIONAL-HEALTH-SERVICE - A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the distribut ion of health care and finance in the UK. This paper reviews the accum ulating evidence. It discusses the empirical measures of equity used i n the various studies and the issues involved in the empirical constru ction of these measures. The main findings on both the delivery and fi nance side are presented and an extension of these cross-sectional ana lyses to an investigation of the lifetime equity in delivery and finan ce based on data from a micro-simulation model is discussed.