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Public Health, Ethics, and Equity Hardcover – 9 December 2004
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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.
- Print length330 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOUP Oxford
- Publication date9 December 2004
- Dimensions23.62 x 2.54 x 16.26 cm
- ISBN-100199276366
- ISBN-13978-0199276363
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...some of the most significant contributions to the discourse on health equity. ― John Lynch, British Medical Journal.
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity is an important addition to the very small number of publications on the ethics of public health and health inequalities. ― Robert Beaglehole, The Lancet
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity is an important addition to the very small number of publications on the ethics of public health and health inequalities. ― Robert Beaglehole, The Lancet
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Incorporates wide-ranging, new perspectives in public-health ethics
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Sudhir Anand is Professor of Economics at St Catherine`s College, University of Oxford. Fabienne Peter lectures in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
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Sudhir Anand is Professor of Economics at St Catherine`s College, University of Oxford. Fabienne Peter lectures in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
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- Publisher : OUP Oxford (9 December 2004)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 330 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0199276366
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199276363
- Dimensions : 23.62 x 2.54 x 16.26 cm
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