Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter -- Part I. Health equity: 1. The concern for equity in health / Sudhir Anand -- 2. Why health equity? / Amartya Sen -- Part II. Health, society and justice: 3. Social causes of social inequalities in health / Michael Marmot -- 4. Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health / Norman Daniels [and others] -- 5, Health equity and social justice / Fabienne Peter -- Part III. Responsibility for health and health care: -- 6. Personal and social responsiblity for health / Daniel Wikler -- 7. Relational conceptions of justice : responsibilities for health outcomes / Thomas W. Pogge -- 8. Just health care in a pluri-national country / Philippe Van Parijs --Part IV. ethical and measurement problems in health evaluation: 9. Disability-adjusted life years : a critical review / Sudhir Anand, Kara Hanson -- 10. Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources / Dan W. Brock -- 11. Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities / Frances M. Kamm -- 12. The value of living longer / John Broome -- Part 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 / Vicanne Adams.

This text on health equity with contributions from philosophers, anthropologists, economists and public-health specialists centres on five themes: what is health equity, health equity and social justice, responsibilities for health, ethical issues in health evaluation, and anthropological perspectives.