TY - BOOK AU - Anand,Sudhir AU - Peter,Fabienne AU - Sen,Amartya TI - Public health, ethics, and equity SN - 0199276366 (hbk. : alk. paper) AV - RA427.25 .P825 2004 U1 - 362.1 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Public health KW - Congresses KW - Medical care KW - Medical ethics KW - Right to health KW - World health KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - Health Status KW - Public Health KW - ethics KW - Social Justice KW - Global Health Equity Initiative N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005297958-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005297958-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2005297958-b.html ER -