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Inequalities in health : concepts, measures, and ethics / edited by Nir Eyal ... [and others].
Holman Biotech Commons RA418 .I5 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Population-level bioethics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health Status Disparities.
- Public health--Social aspects.
- Public health.
- Bioethical Issues.
- Healthcare Disparities--economics.
- Healthcare Disparities--ethics.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Global Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Status Disparities.
- Bioethical Issues.
- Healthcare Disparities--economics.
- Healthcare Disparities--ethics.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Global Health.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures, and Ethics, Which inequalities in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and nations are unfair? And what priority should health policy attach to narrowing them? These essays by philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and physicians attempt to determine how health inequalities should be conceptualized, measured, ranked, and evaluated. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Inequality and health / Larry Temkin
- Health inequality, health inequity and health spending / Tony Atkinson
- A summary measure of health inequalities : incorporating group and individual inequalities / Yukiko Asada
- When group measures of health should matter / Kasper Lippert Rasmussen
- Priority to the worse off : severity of current and future illness versus shortfall in life time health / Erik Nord
- Egalitarian concerns and population change / Gustaf Arrhenius
- Egalitarian critiques of health inequalities / Dan Hausman
- Decide as you would with full information! An argument against ex ante Pareto / Alex Voorhoeve and Marc Fleurbaey
- Uncertainty and justifiability to each person / Johann Frick
- Equality of opportunity for health / Shlomi Segall
- When in doubt, equalize / Wlodek Rabinowicz
- Reducing health disparities : no simple matter / Norman Daniels
- Levelling down health / Nir Eyal
- Atkinson's measure of inequality : can measures of economic inequality help us understand trade-offs in healthcare priority setting? / Ole Norheim
- Rationing and rationality : the cost of avoiding discrimination / Toby Ord and Nick Beckstead
- Rationing and the disabled : several proposals / Frances M. Kamm
- What does the empirical evidence on SES and health tell us about inequity and about policy? / Angus Deaton
- Fair society healthy lives / Michael Marmot
- Individual responsibility, health and health care / Julian Le Grand
- WHO's social determinants commission : concepts and measures of health inequalities / Ritu Sadana.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780199931392
- 0199931399
- OCLC:
- 811318262
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