Public health, ethics, and equity /

Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. - viii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The concern for equity in health / Why health equity? / Social causes of social inequalities in health / Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health / Health equity and social justice / Personal and social responsiblity for health / Relational conceptions of justice: responsibilities for health outcomes / Just health care in a pluri-national country / Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review / Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources / Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities / The value of living longer / Health achievement and equity: external and internal perspectives / Ethics and experience: an anthropological approach to health equity / Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet / Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter -- Sudhir Anand -- Amartya Sen -- Michael Marmot -- Norman Daniels ... [et al.] -- Fabienne Peter -- Daniel Wikler -- Thomas W. Pogge -- Philippe Van Parijs -- Sudhir Anand, Kara Hanson -- Dan W. Brock -- Frances M. Kamm -- John Broome -- Amartya Sen -- Arthur Kleinman -- Vicanne Adams. Introduction / PART I. HEALTH EQUITY -- PART II. HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE -- PART III. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE -- PART IV. ETHICAL AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTH EVALUATION -- PART V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION --

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