The limits of prevention
50 years of Hart’s Law
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Health services accessibility, Primary health care, Socioeconomic factors, Prevention.Abstract
In 1971, Hart published an article proposing the Inverse Care Law, suggesting that “The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the needs of the population served”. Over the past 50 years, the article has been cited with increasing frequency in the literature. The present article provides a perspective about how Hart’s reflections connect with the changes in health prevention during this period, especially in relation to primary health care.
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