Equitable Choices For Health
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Equitable Choices For Health
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Author : Joe Farrington-Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research
Release Date : 2005
Equitable Choices For Health written by Joe Farrington-Douglas and has been published by Institute for Public Policy Research this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Medical categories.
Communities In Action
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Communities In Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with Medical categories.
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
The Equitable Healthcare Survey
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Equitable Healthcare Survey written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Medical care categories.
Measuring Equity In Health Care Financing
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Author : Adam Wagstaff
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2001
Measuring Equity In Health Care Financing written by Adam Wagstaff and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Medical care categories.
The World Health Organization's latest World health report proposes an index of fairness in health care financing. The index's chief weakness is that it cannot discriminate among progressive, regressive, and horizontally inequitable health financing systems. An alternative approach proposed in the early 1990s is shown to do a better job.
Medicine And The Market
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Author : Daniel Callahan
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-05-22
Medicine And The Market written by Daniel Callahan and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-22 with Medical categories.
Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings. Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first-century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems. In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world—from Canada and the United States to Western Europe, Latin America, and many African and Asian countries—they assess the leading market practices, such as competition, physician incentives, and co-payments, for their economic and health efficacy to determine whether they work as advertised. This timely and necessary book engages new dimensions of a development that has urgent consequences for the delivery of health care worldwide.
Public Health Ethics And Equity
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Author : Sudhir Anand
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-12-09
Public Health Ethics And Equity written by Sudhir Anand and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-09 with Medical categories.
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 may even 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 equality of opportunity. So why should a concern with health equity be singled out from the pursuit of social justice more generally? Can existing theories of justice provide an adequate account of health equity? And what ethical problems arise in evaluating health inequalities? These are some of the important questions that this book addresses in building an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity. With contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists, it centres on five major themes: what is health equity?; health equity and social justice; responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation; and anthropological perspectives.
Equity In Global Health Research
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Author : Elijah Bisung
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-11-24
Equity In Global Health Research written by Elijah Bisung and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-24 with categories.
This thoughtful book offers unique insights on global health research, drawing attention to the equity choices embedded in day-to-day patterns and assumptions that shape how people do, think about, and navigate research. It invites readers to position equity as the driving principle and purpose of this field and presents a plethora of examples that demonstrate how to navigate the complex work of centring equity in research. This book provides foundational content on the standards of guiding equity considerations in global health, with chapters adopting cross-disciplinary methods of engaging in equity thinking and doing. Chapters explore applications of six distinct elements of the CCGHR Principles for Global Health Research, including partnering authentically, embracing inclusion, sharing benefits, committing to the future, acting on causes of inequities and practicing humility. Each chapter is accompanied with engaging reflection questions. This book is a pivotal resource for those who perform, use or support global equity health research. It will appeal to students, researchers, policy makers, professionals and funders, as well as those with an interest in and commitment to centring equity in their approaches to doing, using, or supporting health research.
Who Decides Who Decides
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Author : John Spiers
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Who Decides Who Decides written by John Spiers and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Medical categories.
This book makes the case for 'ordinary' people to get the health and social care which the state has promised them for over 60 years but which has not been delivered. What is the case for choice? How can choice be made real for the individual? What impact can genuine, individually financially-empowered choice have on effective funding, purchasing, delivery, and outcomes? How can a genuine market grow and thrive? How can the quest for choice include the large numbers of NHS and social care staff on whom success depends? The book urges individual financial empowerment, through a life-long health savings account for all NHS and social services.
The Future Of Nursing 2020 2030
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Author : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-30
The Future Of Nursing 2020 2030 written by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with categories.
The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. A nation cannot fully thrive until everyone - no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make - can live their healthiest possible life, and helping people live their healthiest life is and has always been the essential role of nurses. Nurses have a critical role to play in achieving the goal of health equity, but they need robust education, supportive work environments, and autonomy. Accordingly, at the request of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on behalf of the National Academy of Medicine, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study aimed at envisioning and charting a path forward for the nursing profession to help reduce inequities in people's ability to achieve their full health potential. The ultimate goal is the achievement of health equity in the United States built on strengthened nursing capacity and expertise. By leveraging these attributes, nursing will help to create and contribute comprehensively to equitable public health and health care systems that are designed to work for everyone. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. This work builds on the foundation set out by The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) report.
Preferences Over Equity In The Allocation Of Health Care Resources
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Author : Jeremiah Hurley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Preferences Over Equity In The Allocation Of Health Care Resources written by Jeremiah Hurley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
The equitable allocation of health care resources is a central goal in many health systems. Scholars from economics, political science, philosophy, ethics and other areas have offered many alternative conceptions of an equitable, or just, allocation of health care resources. In their seminal work, Yaari and Bar-Hillel (1984) were among the first to investigate people's preferences over alternative equity notions when allocating a fixed supply of resources. Our work builds on this tradition of using stated preference experiments to elicit individual preferences for equitable allocations of resources. We elicit preferences for the equitable allocation of two types of goods, a non-heatlh care good (apples) that can produce health effects and a health care good (pain relief pills). For a specific allocation problem we examine preferences over the following allocation principles: utilitarianism, maximin, relative need, equal split. Our study extends the existing literature in the following ways. It compares preferences under three information sets: (1) only information defining each principle; (2) only information on the quantitative allocations associated with each principle (but no information on which principle each allocation is associated with); (3) information on both the principles and the associated allocations. We compare preferences for the allocation of a non-health care health-affecting good and heatlh care. We include a qualitative component that explores the reasoning individuals used in selecting their referred equity principle. The survey was conducted in Hamilton, ON and includes both a university-based sample of students and staff as well as a community-based sample drawn from the city of Hamilton. We find that the most commonly selected principle is allocation according to relative need, but that the distribution of choices differs importantly depending on the information set available; we do not find statistical differences between the non-health care and health care goods; the qualitative component revealed that particpants generally understood the exercise and could articulate clear reasons for their choices, but that the underlying reasoing processes differed even among those making identical choices.