TY - JOUR T1 - WORK ON EQUITY AND HEALTH COMES OF AGE JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 481 LP - 481 DO - 10.1136/jech.56.7.481 VL - 56 IS - 7 AU - John R Ashton AU - Carlos Alvarez-Dardet Y1 - 2002/07/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/7/481.1.abstract N2 - In this issue we mark the coming of age of work on equity and health with the publication of a set of papers from the first meeting of the International Society for Equity in Health held in Havana, Cuba in June 2000. A working definition of equity in health as “the absence of systematic and potentially remediable differences in one or more aspects of health across population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically” provides the basis for contributions that … ER -