Health and social justice / Jennifer Prah Ruger.

Publisher's description: Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why and how should collective choices be made, and policies implemented, to address health inequalities under conditions of resource scarcity? How should societies conceptualize and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruger, Jennifer Prah
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Health > Social aspects.
Medical policy.
Social justice.
Equality > Health aspects.
Physical Description:xxxvii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • PART I : THE CURRENT SET OF ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS: Approaches to medical and public health ethics
  • PART II : AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT : THE HEALTH CAPABILITY PARADIGM: Health and human flourishing
  • Pluralism, incompletely theorized agreements, and public policy
  • Justice, capability, and health policy
  • Grounding the right to health
  • PART III : DOMESTIC HEALTH POLICY APPLICATIONS: A health capability account of equal access
  • A health capability account of equitable and efficient health financing and insurance
  • Allocating resources : a joint scientific and deliberative approach
  • PART IV : DOMESTIC HEALTH REFORM: Political and moral legitimacy : a normative theory of health policy decision-making.