Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
In the last fifty years, average overall health status has increased more or less in parallel with a much celebrated decline in mortality, attributed mostly to poverty reduction, sanitation, nutrition, housing, immunization, and improved medical care. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that these achievements were not equally distributed. In most countries, while some social groups have benefited significantly, the situation of others has stagnated or mayeven have worsened.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 eq…
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Weitere Autoren: Peter, Fabienne / Sen, Amartya
- ISBN: 978-0-19-153480-5
- EAN: 9780191534805
- Produktnummer: 30849142
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'710 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 figures
Über den Autor
Sudhir Anand is Professor of Economics at St Catherine`s College, University of Oxford.Fabienne Peter lectures in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
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