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Title Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter -- PART I. HEALTH EQUITY -- 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 [and others] -- 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 -- 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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Subject Public health -- Congresses.
Public health -- Congresses.
Medical care -- Congresses.
Medical care.
Medical ethics -- Congresses.
Medical ethics.
Right to health -- Congresses.
Right to health.
World health -- Congresses.
World health.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Health Status.
Public Health -- ethics.
Social Justice -- ethics.
Indexed Term Global Health Equity Initiative
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Subject Medical care.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Anand, Sudhir, 1946-
Peter, Fabienne.
Sen, Amartya, 1933-
Other Form: Print version: Public health, ethics, and equity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0199276366 9780199276363 (DLC) 2005297958 (OCoLC)57420251
ISBN 9780191534805 (electronic book)
0191534803 (electronic book)