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Improving health systems' management, efficiency and quality can be the source of improved population health. But only if the systems themselves are equity-based. If drug and technology innovation, streamlined patient care and enhanced prevention simply reflect societal divisions and generate results for the few, then such advances can only worsen health disparities. Hence, the title of our editorial, which begs the question: better management, efficiency and quality towards what end? Towards better population as well as individual health, towards health equity.