50 years of the inverse care law

A Haines, A Pollock, C Victora - Lancet, 1971 - thelancet.com
… How should we reflect on the inverse care law 50 years on? Although health care is widely
endorsed as a basic human right, the systems that provide it inequitably embody capitalism at …

The inverse care law today

G Watt - The Lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
… In this sense the inverse care law remains true, for in every society where market forces …
in health care, inequalities are a major feature of the system. The fact that the inverse care law

The inverse care law re-examined: a global perspective

R Cookson, T Doran, M Asaria, I Gupta, FP Mujica - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
… An inverse care law persists in almost all low-income and middle-income countries, … -quality,
health care despite having greater need. By contrast, a disproportionate care law persists in …

[PDF][PDF] Tackling the inverse care law

R Fisher, L Allen, AM Malhotra, H Alderwick - 2022 - scholar.archive.org
… In this report, we analyse national policies on the inverse care law in general practice in
England and set out recommendations for making the availability of high-quality general …

The inverse care law and the potential of primary care in deprived areas

SW Mercer, J Patterson, JP Robson, SM Smith… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
… He wrote the inverse care law 2 based on an analysis of the UK National Health Service (NHS)
50 years ago and yet its importance has transcended that historical period and its …

The inverse care law: implications for healthcare of vulnerable populations

K Fiscella, P Shin - The Journal of ambulatory care management, 2005 - journals.lww.com
… In the United States, the inverse care law holds with greater … In this article, we discuss the
impact of the inverse care law … have persisted for more than 50 years and in many instances, …

Children and the inverse care law

E Webb - BMJ, 1998 - bmj.com
… 25 years since Tudor Hart described the inverse care law. This states that “the availability of
good medical care … The inverse care law also operates in terms of access to services. Those …

The inverse care law in the Anthropocene epoch

A Haines, M Floss - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
… The insights from the inverse care law and from Tudor Hart's legacy of critical thinking
about health care and the political economy of health can guide us today as we navigate the …

[HTML][HTML] The inverse care law and the significance of income for utilization of longterm care services in a Nordic welfare state

H Mac Innes, K Walsh, T Österberg - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
… This paper assesses the degree to which the Inverse Care Law applies to the utilization of
… To our knowledge, this is the first paper to assess the relevance of the Inverse Care Law to …

Stigma and the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of 'Care' for People Living in Marginalised Conditions

M Addison, S Scott, C Bambra… - Sociology of Health & …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
… This paper explores the connection between stigma and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) by
focussing on the idea that people who have the greatest needs often have the least support from …