@article { author = {Goldblatt, Peter}, title = {How Can a Global Social Support System Hope to Achieve Fairer Competiveness?; Comment on “A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States’ National Basketball Association”}, journal = {International Journal of Health Policy and Management}, volume = {5}, number = {3}, pages = {205-206}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Kerman University of Medical Sciences}, issn = {2322-5939}, eissn = {2322-5939}, doi = {10.15171/ijhpm.2015.211}, abstract = {Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. This commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the National Basketball Association (NBA) example as a point of reference. From this, the minimal conditions are described that would be required for the support system, proposed in the article by Ooms et al, to succeed.}, keywords = {Gradient,Inequality,Proportionate Universalism,Governance,Capacity Building}, url = {https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3142.html}, eprint = {https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3142_e8831fb2b928529c462327472d4264ab.pdf} }