Public Health, Ethics, and Equity

Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
By:"Sudhir Anand","Fabienne Peter","Amartya Kumar Sen"
Published on 2004 by Oxford University Press on Demand

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. (Midwest).

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