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OverviewIntroduces a vision for the future of health equity and explains practical policy measures for how to achieve it. Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. In Equal Care, Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, offers an innovative vision for the future of health equity by examining the social mechanisms that link injustice to poor health. He also presents practical policies designed to create a system of social relations that ensures equal care for everyone. As Berkowitz illustrates, the project of social democracy works to improve health by bringing relationships of equality to the sites of human cooperation: in civil society, in political processes, and in economic activities. This book synthesizes three elements necessary for such a project—normative justification, mechanistic knowledge, and technical proficiency—into a practical vision of how to create health equity. Drawing from the fields of medicine, social epidemiology, sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, and more, Berkowitz makes clear that health inequity is social failure embodied, and the only true cures are political. Equal Care is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of health equity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Seth A. BerkowitzPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781421448244ISBN 10: 1421448246 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 26 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. What Is Health Equity? 3. Equality of What? 4. Democratic Equality 5. How Injustice Harms Health 6. Inegalitarian Ideologies and Health 7. The Theory of the Welfare State 8. Economics of the Welfare State 9. Financing the Welfare State 10. Practice of the Welfare State 11. Transfer Income Policy I: In-Kind Services 12. Transfer Income Policy II: Cash Benefits 13. Factor Income Policy 14. Civil and Political Rights 15. Conclusions References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSeth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, a general internist, practicing primary care physician, and clinician investigator, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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