
%0 Journal Article
%A Houston, Shane 
%T Equity, by what measure?
%J Health Promotion Journal of Australia
%D 2006/12/01
%V 17
%N 3
%P 206-210
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HE06206
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HE06206 
%X Equity has in many instances been framed around the notion of fairness. But the metric used to determine what is fair leaves some people at a disadvantage because the things that they value are not always taken properly into account. If I value mangoes and you value oranges is a measure of fairness based on how many oranges I seek appropriate? If I am expected to give up my love of mangoes in order to get ahead is that fair? The debate about judging equity - about measuring fairness - needs to find the conceptual and methodological space to allow the voices and claims of the other to be heard. 
