Public health, ethics and equity - Anand Sudhir; Peter Fabienne; Sen Amartya (Oxford University Press New Delhi, 2006)
Keywords: Socioeconomic Factors -- Public Health -- Social Justice -- Medical ethics -- Right to health -- World health -- Health equity : Concern for equity in health -- Health, society and justice : Social causes of social inequalities in health, health and inequality, why justice is good for our health, health equity and social justice -- Responsibility for health and health care : Personal and social responsibility for health, relational conceptions of justice- responsibilities for health outcomes, just health care in pluri-national country -- Ethical and measurement problems in Health evaluation : Disability adjusted life years, ethical issues in use of cost effectiveness analysis for prioritization of health care resources, deciding whom to help, health adjusted life years and disabilities, value of living longer -- Equity and conflicting perspectives on health evaluation : Health achievement and equity- external and internal perspectives, anthropological approach to health equity, cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet