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Public health, ethics, and equity / Sudhir Anand / Oxford ; Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press - OUP (2004)
Public health, ethics, and equity [printed text] / Sudhir Anand, Editor ; Fabienne Peter, Editor ; Amartya Kumar Sen . - Oxford ; Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press - OUP, 2004 . - viii, 316 p. : ill. 9 figs.
ISBN : 978-0-19-927636-3 : € 27,90
Languages : English (eng)
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WA 30 Social, economic, and environmental factors in public health (General)
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Ethics ; Health Care ; Health Status ; Public Health ; Resource Allocation ; Social Justice ; Socioeconomic FactorsAbstract: In the last fifty years, average overall health status has increased more or less in parallel with a much celebrated decline in mortality, attributed mostly to poverty reduction, sanitation, nutrition, housing, immunization, and improved medical care. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that these achievements were not equally distributed. In most countries, while some social groups have benefited significantly, the situation of others has stagnated or may even have worsened.
If health is a prerequisite to a person functioning as an agent, inequalities in health constitute inequalities in people's capability to function -- a denial of equality of opportunity. So why should a concern with health equity be singled out from the pursuit of social justice more generally? Can existing theories of justice provide an adequate account of health equity? And what ethical problems arise in evaluating health inequalities?
These are some of the important questions that this book addresses in building an interdisciplinary understanding 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 social justice; responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation; and anthropological perspectives.Contents note: Preface , Amartya Sen -- Introduction , Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter -- I. Health Equity -- 1. The Concern for Equity in Health , Sudhir Anand -- 2. Why Health Equity? , Amartya Sen -- II. Health, Society, and Justice -- 3. Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health , Michael Marmot -- 4. Why Justice is Good for Our Health: The Social Determinants of Health Inequalities , Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi -- 5. Health Equity and Social Justice , Fabienne Peter -- III. Responsibility for Health and Health Care -- 6. Justice, Socioeconomic Status, and Responsibility for Health , Daniel Wikler -- 7. Relational Conceptions of Justice: Responsibilities for Health Outcomes , Thomas Pogge -- 8. Just Health Care in a Plurinational Country , Philippe Van Parijs -- IV. Ethical and Measurement Problems in Health Evaluation -- 9. Disability-adjusted Life Years: A Critical Review , Sudhir Anand and Kara Hanson -- 10. Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Care Resources , Dan Brock -- 11. Deciding Whom to Help, Health-Adjusted Life Years, and Disabilities , Frances Kamm -- 12. The Value of Living Longer , John Broome -- V. Equity and Conflicting Perspectives on Health Evaluation -- 13. Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives , Amartya Sen -- 14. Ethics and Experience: An Anthropological Approach to Health Equity , Arthur Kleinman -- 15. Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet , Vincanne Adams Record link: https://kce.docressources.info/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=1306 Hold
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