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Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
Edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, and Amartya Sen
330 pages
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4 tables, 15 figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927637-0
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Paperback
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12 January 2006
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- Incorporates wide-ranging, new perspectives in public-health ethics
- Includes contributions by eminent scholars from a variety of fields
It is widely recognized that health is influenced by a variety of social, economic and environmental factors, and not just by access to health care. The extensive empirical literature on the social determinants of— and inequalities in— health has yet to be matched by an appreciation of the normative underpinnings of health equity.
Health equity expresses a commitment of public health to social justice, which raises a series of ethical issues. Why, if at all, should a concern with health equity be singled out from the pursuit of social justice in general? What is the extent of social—as opposed to individual—responsibility
for health? What ethical problems arise in evaluating population health and health inequalities? How sensitive should the pursuit of health equity be to contextual considerations in contrast to universal values?
In addressing these important questions, this volume examines the foundations 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 its relation to social justice; health inequalities and responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation and prioritization; and anthropological perspectives on health equity.Readership:
Researchers and teachers in public health, philosophy, public policy, and health economics; public health analysts and national and international health policy makers.
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Edited by Sudhir Anand, University of Oxford, Fabienne Peter, University of Warwick, and Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Harvard University Contributors:
Sudhir Anand, University of Oxford
Fabienne Peter, University of Warwick
Amartya Sen, Harvard University
Michael Marmot, University College London
Norman Daniels, Harvard University
Bruce Kennedy, Harvard University
Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard University
Daniel Wikler, Harvard University
Thomas Pogge, Columbia University
Philippe Van Parijs, Catholic University of
Louvain
Kara Hanson, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dan Brock, Brown University
Frances Kamm, Harvard University
John Broome, University of Oxford
Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
Vincanne Adams, University of Southern California, San Francisco
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"Although many of the papers— by some of the most distinguished authors in the field and embracing perspectives from several disciplines, including economics, medicine, epidemiology, sociology, philosophy, and anthropology—have been published elsewhere it is useful to have them bound in one volume, because they are some of the most significant contributions to the discourse on health equity." - John Lynch, BMJ
"Public Health, Ethics and Equity is an important step in the process of developing a coherent approach to public health ethics and, especially, to the ethics of equity." - Robert Beaglehole, The Lancet Vol 365
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Amartya Sen: Preface
Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: 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
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