What's the difference between inequitable and unequal?

Inequitable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not equitable; not just.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The problems of inequitable access to care, health care inflation, and reduced physician autonomy confront physicians and health care reformers with a dilemma.
  • (2) England gets less money from the taxpayer than most other parts of the United Kingdom because of the inequitable Barnett formula.
  • (3) Greiner said the committee had been confronted with an inequitable school funding system in which the most disadvantaged child usually received the least help.
  • (4) This study suggests that the current DRG reimbursement methodology may be inequitable vis-à-vis the older plastic surgical patient.
  • (5) The latest figures highlighting the inequitable nature of pay in British business led to calls for action from campaigners on workplace equality.
  • (6) These findings suggest that new, prospective DRG all payer systems may be inequitable to certain groups of patients or types of hospitals in these stratified peripheral vascular surgical DRGs with no complication or comorbidities.
  • (7) Furthermore, inequitable couples predictably act to "set things right" in their marriage.
  • (8) Commenting on the leaders attending the G20 summit in Pittsburgh next week, he said: "We need to remind these people about impacts of climate change – the fact that they are inequitable and fall very heavily on some of the poorest people in the world.
  • (9) Despite these advances, office practice generally continues to function on an outmoded model and psychiatric resources remain inequitably distributed.
  • (10) Substantial evidence suggests that current rationing practices are highly subjective and perhaps inequitable.
  • (11) The system is inequitable because the government pays more on behalf of those who choose more costly systems of care, because tax benefits subsidize the health insurance of the well-to-do, while not helping many low-income people, and because employment health insurance does not guarantee continuity of coverage and is regressive in its financing.
  • (12) We also know that caries-related levels of dental health are inequitably distributed among social classes: on the average, disadvantaged people experience higher DMFS then privileged people.
  • (13) Since this type of care is being inequitably denied to some patients, hospitals should either adopt formal rationing guidelines or, alternatively, they should take clear steps to avoid rationing by altering the supply of or the demand for critical care.
  • (14) This study suggests that the current DRG reimbursement scheme may be inequitable vis a vis older nephrology patients, as well as those with diabetes mellitus and chronic renal failure.
  • (15) Just 12% of the health budget goes to 40% of the population who live in the homelands which shows the inequitable distribution of health care resources and inadequate quality health care for all.
  • (16) Flaws, biases, and ethical problems surrounding research and diagnosis may lead to inappropriate or inequitable treatments that exacerbate or fail to improve the misery that some individuals face due to their psychiatric conditions.
  • (17) However unloved this regressive and inequitable system is, it still looks more attractive than the prospect of designing an alternative that will unavoidably create a different set of losers.
  • (18) Tim Costello, the chief executive of World Vision and the co-chair of the C20, a civil society process feeding into G20 deliberations, said: “It appears the language about equality and inclusive growth has been taken out and we are hearing that is at Australia’s instigation.” The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, says the growth plan will automatically translate into additional jobs, but civil society observers like Costello counter that this is not necessarily the case if the growth is inequitable.
  • (19) These findings suggest that the current DRG scheme may be inequitable vis-a-vis the older urology patient in non-age stratified DRGs, and thus could limit access and quality of care for these patients in the future.
  • (20) The results support the postulate of equity theory that individuals who perceived their relationship to be equitable express less distress with all aspects of their friendships than those who perceived their friendships as inequitable.

Unequal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
  • (a.) Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
  • (a.) Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.
  • (a.) Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.
  • (a.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data were analysed using statistical methods that yield continuous piecewise linear regression equations and allow subjects to have repeated measures which are unequally spaced and at different times for different subjects.
  • (2) When initial joint angles were unequal, joints moving from smaller initial angles reached their functional limits earlier and stopped first.
  • (3) A large proportion of allergen escaped rapidly from the ear, about 50% within 3 hr in the case of PCl, within 15 min for DNCB, the difference probably reflecting their unequal reaction constants.
  • (4) Even in Mondrian-like patterns resembling those used by Land and McCann (1971), equiluminant objects may appear to be of unequal brightness.
  • (5) Approximately 15% are multilobed but, unlike (-Mg) cells, contain lobes of unequal size with either zero, one, or several nuclei present in each.
  • (6) We propose that the deletion of the rRNA operon occurred in the ilv-leu gene cluster of the B. subtilis genome as a result of unequal recombination between redundant sequences.
  • (7) In the pediatric age group, this malformation is notable because of the marked sex predilection in males (70%) and an unequal topographic incidence in the circle of Willis, where carotid artery (39.3%) and anterior communicating artery lesions (30%) predominate.
  • (8) We deduce that in ubiquitin genes, concerted evolution involves both unequal crossover and gene conversion, and that the average time since two repeated units within the polyubiquitin locus most recently shared a common ancestor is approximately 38 million years (Myr) in mammals, but perhaps only 11 Myr in Drosophila.
  • (9) "This unfair and unequal treatment means that children with disabilities – already so disadvantaged – suffer further indignities.
  • (10) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
  • (11) These results show that there is an unequal expression of the two non-allelic genes controlling insulin biosynthesis in foetal and adult rat pancreas.
  • (12) Nonheterogeneity of histamine effect can be presumably explained by a strong representation of various types of receptors to which this biogenic amine is bound (H1, H2, H3) in the organs and tissues, their unequal location on the pre- and postsynaptic membrane, the differences in their physiological functions.
  • (13) The finding indicates that supplier induced demand is a factor to consider in addition to supplier induced utilization when one tries to explain how supplier inducement may affect the unequal distribution of dentists.
  • (14) Although the role of each form is unknown, it is possible that variable or joining-gene segment selection events or functional differences account for their unequal usage.
  • (15) For maximum responses less than about 5 mV in cones, the length constant of exponential decay, lambda, varied from less than 10 mum to greater than 35 mum, and the values obtained in opposite directions were often unequal.
  • (16) Possible explanations for the failure to obtain 100% concordance are methodologic shortcomings, intercell variations in chromosome contraction, and unequal mitotic crossing over.
  • (17) The reason black people could not get out of New Orleans was not because they were separate but because they were unequal - the wealthier ones left.
  • (18) Unequal or absent pulses were found in three patients.
  • (19) In addition, these genes form highly complicated gene families that have evolved through gene conversion and unequal crossing-over.
  • (20) In Rec+ haploids, as in diploids, intrachromosomal recombination in the ribosomal DNA was detected in 2 to 6% of meiotic divisions, and most events were unequal reciprocal sister chromatid exchange (SCE).