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Public Health, Ethics, and Equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.Description: viii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1 22 PUB
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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.
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Books Hamu Mukasa Library Closed Access l Short Loan; Level 1 362.1 PUB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 105306

Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 307-316).

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.

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