Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 17:27:35 AST
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
Edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter and Amartya Sen
Oxford University Press March 2006 - ISBN10: 0199276374
Publisher's website: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927636-6
Introduction: PDF file [12p.] at::
http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-927636-6.pdf
"..In the last fifty years, average overall health status has increased more
or less in parallel with a much celebrated decline in mortality, attributed
mostly to poverty reduction, sanitation, nutrition, housing, immunization,
and improved medical care. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that
these achievements were not equally distributed. In most countries, while
some social groups have benefited significantly, the situation of others has
stagnated or may even have worsened.
If health is a prerequisite to a person functioning as an agent,
inequalities in health constitute inequalities in people's capability to
function -- a denial of equality of opportunity. So why should a concern
with health equity be singled out from the pursuit of social justice more
generally? Can existing theories of justice provide an adequate account of
health equity? And what ethical problems arise in evaluating health
inequalities?
These are some of the important questions that this book addresses in
building 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..."
Table of Contents
Preface , Amartya Sen
Introduction , Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter
I. Health Equity
1. The Concern for Equity in Health , Sudhir Anand
2. Why Health Equity? , Amartya Sen
II. Health, Society, and Justice
3. Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health , Michael Marmot
4. Why Justice is Good for Our Health: The Social Determinants of Health
Inequalities , Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi
5. Health Equity and Social Justice , Fabienne Peter
III. Responsibility for Health and Health Care
6. Justice, Socioeconomic Status, and Responsibility for Health , Daniel
Wikler
7. Relational Conceptions of Justice: Responsibilities for Health Outcomes ,
Thomas Pogge
8. Just Health Care in a Plurinational Country , Philippe Van Parijs
IV. Ethical and Measurement Problems in Health Evaluation
9. Disability-adjusted Life Years: A Critical Review , Sudhir Anand and Kara
Hanson
10. Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the
Prioritization of Health Care Resources , Dan Brock
11. Deciding Whom to Help, Health-Adjusted Life Years, and Disabilities ,
Frances Kamm
12. The Value of Living Longer , John Broome
V. Equity and Conflicting Perspectives on Health Evaluation
13. Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives ,
Amartya Sen
14. Ethics and Experience: An Anthropological Approach to Health Equity ,
Arthur Kleinman
15. Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on
Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet , Vincanne Adams
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