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CLEARY, S. (2010) Equity and efficiency in scaling up access to HIV-related interventions in resource-limited settings. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 5, 210-214.
Abstract
The present review focuses on empirical studies examining equity and efficiency in scaling up access to HIV treatment in resource-limited settings. Key themes from reviewed papers are extracted and future research priorities are identified. Papers were found relating to three key themes. These were equity/efficiency trade-offs in the choice of treatment intervention(s); the implications of the model of care for equitable access; and socioeconomic inequalities in use, adherence and outcomes. Key findings include the need to implement or develop more cost-effective models of care as well as the importance of improving access for the poor.

ATAGUBA, J. E. & MOONEY, G. (2010) A Communitarian Approach to Public Health. Health Care Analysis, Published online: 31 March 2010.
Abstract
This paper argues that there is a need to move yet further than has already been suggested by some from the individual to the collective as a base for public health. A communitarian approach is one way to achieve this. This has the advantage of allowing not only the community’s voice to have a say in setting the values for public health but also more formally the development of a constitution on which public health might then be built. It also sees public health as a social institution which can be valued in its own right.