Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
Edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, and Amartya Sen
Price: £70.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927636-3
Publication date: 9 December 2004
324 pages, 15 line illus., 234x156 mm
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| - '...some of the most significant contributions to the discourse on health equity.' - John Lynch, British Medical Journal.
- 'Public Health, Ethics, and Equity is an important addition to the very small number of publications on the ethics of public health and health inequalities.' - Robert Beaglehole, The Lancet
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| Description | | - Incorporates wide-ranging, new perspectives in public-health ethics.
- Includes contributions by eminent scholars from a variety of relevant fields.
- Investigates the normative implications of empirical research on social inequalities in health.
| 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. |
Readership: Researchers and teachers in public health, philosophy, public policy, and health economics; public health analysts and national and international health policy makers.
| Contents |
Preface
,
Amartya Sen
Introduction
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Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter
I. Health Equity
1.
The Concern for Equity in Health
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Sudhir Anand
2.
Why Health Equity?
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Amartya Sen
II. Health, Society, and Justice
3.
Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health
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Michael Marmot
4.
Why Justice is Good for Our Health: The Social Determinants of Health Inequalities
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Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi
5.
Health Equity and Social Justice
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Fabienne Peter
III. Responsibility for Health and Health Care
6.
Justice, Socioeconomic Status, and Responsibility for Health
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Daniel Wikler
7.
Relational Conceptions of Justice: Responsibilities for Health Outcomes
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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
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Sudhir Anand and Kara Hanson
10.
Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Care Resources
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Dan Brock
11.
Deciding Whom to Help, Health-Adjusted Life Years, and Disabilities
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Frances Kamm
12.
The Value of Living Longer
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John Broome
V. Equity and Conflicting Perspectives on Health Evaluation
13.
Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives
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Amartya Sen
14.
Ethics and Experience: An Anthropological Approach to Health Equity
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Arthur Kleinman
15.
Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet
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Vincanne Adams
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Sudhir Anand, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford,
Fabienne Peter, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, and
Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor, Harvard University
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