International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

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”

Document Type : Commentary

Author
Peter Goldblatt
UCL Institute of Health Equity, UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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
Subjects
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  • Received Date 24 October 2015
  • Revised Date 25 December 2015
  • Accepted Date 18 December 2015
  • First Published Date 01 March 2016
  • Published Date 01 March 2016