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1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Public health -- Congresses.
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Public health -- Congresses. |
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Medical care -- Congresses.
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Medical care. |
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Medical ethics -- Congresses.
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Medical ethics. |
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Right to health -- Congresses.
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Right to health. |
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World health -- Congresses.
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World health. |
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Socioeconomic Factors. |
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Health Status. |
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Public Health -- ethics. |
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Social Justice -- ethics. |
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Global Health Equity Initiative |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Medical care. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Anand, Sudhir, 1946-
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Peter, Fabienne.
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Sen, Amartya, 1933-
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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) |
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0191534803 (electronic book) |
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