Public Health, Ethics, and Equity http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Public-Health-Ethics-and-Equity-Sudhir-Anand-Edited-by-Fabienne-Peter-Edited-by/9780199276370

By Sudhir Anand (Edited by), Fabienne Peter (Edited by), Amartya K. Sen (Edited by)

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Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; I. HEALTH EQUITY; 1. The Concern for Equity in Health; 2. Why Health Equity?; II. HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE; 3. Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health; 4. Why Justice is Good for Our Health: The Social Determinants of Health Inequalities; 5. Health Equity and Social Justice; III. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE; 6. Justice, Socioeconomic Status, and Responsibility for Health; 7. Relational Conceptions of Justice: Responsibilities for Health Outcomes; 8. Just Health Care in a Plurinational Country; IV. ETHICAL AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTH EVALUATION; 9. Disability-adjusted Life Years: A Critical Review; 10. Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Care Resources; 11. Deciding Whom to Help, Health-Adjusted Life Years, and Disabilities; 12. The Value of Living Longer; V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION; 13. Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives; 14. Ethics and Experience: An Anthropological Approach to Health Equity; 15. Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet

About the Author

Sudhir Anand is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Fabienne Peter is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Amartya Sen, a Nobel Laureate, is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.