This is the second of two essays addressing equity and social justice, which are interrelated concepts of considerable interest to members of our discipline. The purpose of this essay is to define social justice within the context of the conceptual model of nursing and health policy and to link social justice with equity in population health and with practice. An essay about equity appeared in a previous issue of Nursing Science Quarterly.
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