Public health, ethics, and equity
By: edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: World health; Public health; Socioeconomic Factors; Social Justice; Congresses; Medical ethics; Medical care; Health Status; Ethics; Public Health; Right to health
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Sudhir Anand, -- Fabienne Peter -- PART I. HEALTH EQUITY; title: The concern for equity in health  -- Sudhir Anand; title: Why health equity?  -- Amartya Sen -- PART II. HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE; title: Social causes of social inequalities in health  -- Michael Marmot; title: Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health  -- Norman Daniels ... [et al.]; title: Health equity and social justice  -- Fabienne Peter -- PART III. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE; title: Personal and social responsiblity for health  -- Daniel Wikler; title: Relational conceptions of justice: responsibilities for health outcomes  -- Thomas W. Pogge; title: Just health care in a pluri-national country  -- Philippe Van Parijs -- PART IV. ETHICAL AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTH EVALUATION; title: Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review  -- Sudhir Anand, -- Kara Hanson; title: Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources  -- Dan W. Brock; title: Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities  -- Frances M. Kamm; title: The value of living longer  -- John Broome -- PART V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION; title: Health achievement and equity: external and internal perspectives  -- Amartya Sen; title: Ethics and experience: an anthropological approach to health equity  -- Arthur Kleinman; title: Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet -- Vicanne Adams.