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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Sudhir Anand is Professor of Economics at St Catherine`s College, University of Oxford.Fabienne Peter lectures in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Klappentext This book builds 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. Zusammenfassung Builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity with contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists. This book centres on major themes such as: health equity and social justice; responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation; and anthropological perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction I. Health Equity 1: Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2: Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3: Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4: Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi: Why Justice is Good for Our Health: The Social Determinants of Health Inequalities 5: Fabienne Peter: Health Equity and Social Justice III. Responsibility for Health and Health Care 6: Daniel Wikler: Justice, Socioeconomic Status, and Responsibility for Health 7: Thomas Pogge: Relational Conceptions of Justice: Responsibilities for Health Outcomes 8: Philippe Van Parijs: Just Health Care in a Plurinational Country IV. Ethical and Measurement Problems in Health Evaluation 9: Sudhir Anand and Kara Hanson: Disability-adjusted Life Years: A Critical Review 10: Dan Brock: Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Care Resources 11: Frances Kamm: Deciding Whom to Help, Health-Adjusted Life Years, and Disabilities 12: John Broome: The Value of Living Longer V. Equity and Conflicting Perspectives on Health Evaluation 13: Amartya Sen: Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives 14: Arthur Kleinman: Ethics and Experience: An Anthropological Approach to Health Equity 15: Vincanne Adams: Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet ...
