Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.
Contributor(s): Anand, Sudhir | Peter, Fabienne | Sen, Amartya
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: viii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0199276366 (cased); 9780199276363 (cased); 0199276374 (pbk.); 9780199276370 (pbk.)Subject(s): Public health | Health services accessibility | Medical ethics | Medical policy | Social justice | Socioeconomic Factors | Health Status | Public Health -- ethics | Social Justice -- ethicsDDC classification: 362.1 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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