Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action
Timothy Evans, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya, and Meg Wirth
Abstract
This book is concerned with the research and policy analysis of the Global Health Equity Initiative (GHEI). It gives a truly global perspective on health equity, with contributors from each country. Reflecting the purpose of the GHEI itself, this book aims to contribute to the building of global capacity to measure, monitor, and interpret developments in health equity at national and international levels to underpin action. A conscious effort is made to focus analysis on inequities in health status, rather than access to health services, and on health inequities within countries, rather than t ... More
This book is concerned with the research and policy analysis of the Global Health Equity Initiative (GHEI). It gives a truly global perspective on health equity, with contributors from each country. Reflecting the purpose of the GHEI itself, this book aims to contribute to the building of global capacity to measure, monitor, and interpret developments in health equity at national and international levels to underpin action. A conscious effort is made to focus analysis on inequities in health status, rather than access to health services, and on health inequities within countries, rather than the more often discussed inequities between countries. Insights about health equity from fields of epidemiology, demography, economics, and social science are brought to life in country studies from Bangladesh, Chile, China, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam. The book is organized around four key elements that structure a systematic response to inequities in health: establishing and strengthening share values, describing the health divide and analyzing causes, tackling the root causes of inequities in health, and reducing the negative consequences of ill health and building more equitable health care systems. The last part offers insights into developing the policy response to inequities in health from a global perspective.
Keywords:
health equity,
inequities,
disparities,
ethics,
policy,
global
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195137408 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195137408.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Timothy Evans, editor
Harvard School of Public Health
Margaret Whitehead, editor
Karolinska Institute
Finn Diderichsen, editor
Karolinska Institute
Abbas Bhuiya, editor
International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Meg Wirth, editor
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