Health and Social Justice

Zusatztext Editor's Choice Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Prah Ruger is Associate Professor at Yale University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Law, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Previous appointments include Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Speechwriter to the World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn, Health Economist in the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Sector and Satellite Secretariat for the World Health Organization Transition Team, Health and Development Satellite. Professor Ruger has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform, and social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations nationally and globally. Klappentext This book brings together the latest thinking in social justice and health policy and seeks to integrate a capabilities perspective with the demands of health and economic policies that impact on health Zusammenfassung This book brings together the latest thinking in social justice and health policy and seeks to integrate a capabilities perspective with the demands of health and economic policies that impact on health Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Current Set of Ethical Frameworks 1: Approaches to Medical and Public Ethics An Alternative Account- The Health Capability Paradigm 2: Health and Human Flourishing 3: Pluralism, Incompletely Theorized Agreements, and Public Policy 4: Justice, Capability, and Health Policy 5: Grounding the Right to Health Domestic Health Policy Applications 6: A Health Capability Account of Equal Access 7: A Health Capability Account of Equitable and Efficient Health Financing and Insurance 8: Allocating Resources: A Joint Scientific and Deliberative Approach Domestic Health Reform 9: Political and Moral Legitimacy: A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision-making Conclusion ...

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Ruger, Jennifer Prah Ruger, Jennifer Prah (Associate Professor Ruger, Ruger Jennifer Prah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780199559978
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955997-8
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Public Health und Präventivmedizin, Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, MEDICAL / Public Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Health economics, Wohlfahrtsökonomie, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Welfare economics, Public health & preventive medicine, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Public health and preventive medicine