| Description |
viii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sudhir Anand / Fabienne Peter -- PART I. HEALTH EQUITY -- The concern for equity in health / Sudhir Anand -- Why health equity? / Amartya Sen -- PART II. HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE -- Social causes of social inequalities in health / Michael Marmot -- Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health / Norman Daniels ... [et al.] -- Health equity and social justice / Fabienne Peter -- PART III. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE -- Personal and social responsiblity for health / Daniel Wikler -- Relational conceptions of justice: responsibilities for health outcomes / Thomas W. Pogge -- Just health care in a pluri-national country / Philippe Van Parijs -- PART IV. ETHICAL AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTH EVALUATION -- Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review / Sudhir Anand / Kara Hanson -- Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources / Dan W. Brock -- Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities / Frances M. Kamm -- The value of living longer / John Broome -- PART V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION -- Health achievement and equity: external and internal perspectives / Amartya Sen -- Ethics and experience: an anthropological approach to health equity / Arthur Kleinman -- Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet / Vicanne Adams |
| Summary |
"This volume examines the foundations of health equity. With contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists, it centres on five major themes: what is health equity?; health equity and its relation to social justice; health inequalities and responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation and prioritization; and anthropological perspectives on health equity." "This significant volume will be valuable to researchers and teachers in public health, philosophy, public policy, and health economics, and to public-health analysts and policy makers."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Global Health Equity Initiative |
| Notes |
"This book originated in a set of workshops and seminars ... at Harvard University in 1998 and 1999"--Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health promotion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Right to health -- Congresses.
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Health services accessibility.
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Social medicine.
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Equality -- Health aspects.
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Medical policy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Public health -- Congresses.
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Medical care -- Congresses.
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Medical ethics -- Congresses.
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World health -- Congresses.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Health Status.
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Social Justice -- ethics.
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Public Health -- ethics.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Anand, Sudhir, 1946-
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Peter, Fabienne.
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Sen, Amartya, 1933-
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| LC no. |
2005297958 |
| ISBN |
0199276366 hardback alkaline paper |
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