Maxwell J. Smith
1*, Daniel Weinstock
21 School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
2 Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Abstract
Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these
strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit
of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit
of health equity may be at odds with policies in other sectors, which may consider the reduction of health inequities
to be peripheral to, if not incompatible with, their own equity-related aims. It is therefore critical that intersectoral
strategies to reduce health inequities be guided by a more general account of social justice that is capable of carefully
balancing equity in health against the pursuit of equity in other sectors.