Justice, as a dimension of the medical practice, gives rise to problems that have yet to be solved. The whole discussion on equity can be traced back to Greek antiquity, being however extremely present in its applications to health from a perspective seeking a coalition between equality and difference. Updating the impact of the inequalities in the binomial term health-disease, enlightened by the contributions of the Indian economist Amartya Sen will be the path followed by this essay.
Inequality; Poverty; Equity; Justice; Health; Sen