Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anand, Sudhir, editor.

Peter, Fabienne, editor.

Sen, Amartya, 1933- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Health services accessibility.

Medical ethics.

Medical policy.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity with contributions from philosophers, anthropologists, economists and public-health specialists. It centres on five themes: what is health equity, health equity and social justice, responsibilities for health, ethical issues in health evaluation, and anthropological perspectives.

Contents:

Introduction / Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter

PART I. HEALTH EQUITY

The concern for equity in health / Sudhir Anand

Why health equity? / Amartya Sen

PART II. HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE

Social causes of social inequalities in health / Michael Marmot

Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health / Norman Daniels ... [et al.]

Health equity and social justice / Fabienne Peter

PART III. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

Personal and social responsiblity for health / Daniel Wikler

Relational conceptions of justice: responsibilities for health outcomes / Thomas W. Pogge

Just health care in a pluri-national country / Philippe Van Parijs

PART IV. ETHICAL AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTH EVALUATION

Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review / Sudhir Anand, Kara Hanson

Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources / Dan W. Brock

Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities / Frances M. Kamm

The value of living longer / John Broome

PART V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION

Health achievement and equity: external and internal perspectives / Amartya Sen

Ethics and experience: an anthropological approach to health equity / Arthur Kleinman

Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet / Vicanne Adams.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04198-9

0-19-153480-3

1-281-19844-7

9786611198442

1-4356-1828-9

OCLC:

666911849