What's the difference between inequitable and unjust?

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.

Unjust


Definition:

  • (a.) Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
  • (a.) Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
  • (2) Ukraine will do everything it can to free these unjustly accused people,” said Vitaly Moskalenko, Ukraine’s consul general in Rostov-on-Don, who was present at the Sentsov hearing.
  • (3) This is not just socially unjust, it is also bad for our economy.
  • (4) reveals, it is a result of the unjust politics that shape our economy, including the pursuit of growth at any cost and the fact that women’s voices continue to be silenced and ignored.
  • (5) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
  • (6) Every day looked after children and care leavers face unfair and unjust discrimination.
  • (7) Agnes Poirier went to meet Claude Lanzmann, the 88-year-old director of Holocaust documentary Shoah, who has a new film, Last of the Unjust , which is screening out of competition.
  • (8) We now need to weigh up both urban and suburban qualities, and take proper account of complaints from critical urbanists about socially unjust, sanitised, privatised, uni-cultural and anti-social developments.
  • (9) This is one of the forms of "Kümmel-Verneuil syndrome, a clinical entity which has been unjustly neglected for 30 years.
  • (10) I tend to differ: it is perverse, and it is unjust.
  • (11) "People feel the murder of Mark was very unjust," he said.
  • (12) UK Uncut's previous sit-ins and occupations in the branches of tax dodgers have proved very effective in highlighting the unjust practices of big business."
  • (13) "For centuries unjust laws banned marriage between blacks and whites or Indians and Europeans.
  • (14) Translated, this means demanding just taxation policies from America to divert attention from your wholesale restructure of the Australian economy to protect unjust taxation policies at home.
  • (15) It appears that I am now being unjustly victimized again.
  • (16) The zero-hours contracts – of which there are now 1.4 million in the active workforce – remain a flashpoint, even if they are by no means the most unjust requirement made by the Department for Work and Pensions (they are not as bad as mandatory work activity, for instance).
  • (17) A few months after Timothy Jackson was put away for life, a Louisiana appeals court reviewed the case and found it “excessive”, “inappropriate” and “a prime example of an unjust result”.
  • (18) The Guardian view on the criminal courts charge: unjust, ineffective and mean-spirited | Editorial Read more Gove indicated his distaste for the charge, saying it was a “cause for concern”.
  • (19) The spur to the public debate on the death penalty stemmed from a trilogy of miscarriages of justice In 1950, Timothy Evans was unjustly hanged on the evidence of a neighbour, John Christie, who was subsequently convicted of murder, in a house they shared in west London.
  • (20) They chanted, “Justice for Tamir!” “We will not accept any excuse why this young man was shot down unjustly,” said Art McKoy, a Cleveland community activist at the demonstration.

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