Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health

Features extensive case discussion and opportunities for individual and team-based synthetic excercises, using a mixture of hypothetical and actual cases, discussion questions, and role-playing scenarios Accessible analysis of the leading ethical theories and approaches to problems posed by the evidence regarding the social determinants of healthHelps readers apply epidemiologic evidence and ethical analysis to questions regarding public health policies, practices, and priorities

Features extensive case discussion and opportunities for individual and team-based synthetic excercises, using a mixture of hypothetical and actual cases, discussion questions, and role-playing scenarios Accessible analysis of the leading ethical theories and approaches to problems posed by the evidence regarding the social determinants of health Helps readers apply epidemiologic evidence and ethical analysis to questions regarding public health policies, practices, and priorities

Autorentext

Daniel S. Goldberg, JD, PhD , is trained as an attorney, a historian, and a public health ethicist. His work centers on the law, ethics, and policy of medicine and public health. He focuses primarily on noncommunicable disease, analyzing problems of health inequalities, priority-setting, and health-related stigma. He maintains particular expertise on problems related to the equitable treatment of chronic pain, past and present.

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding the Social Determinants of Health.- Justice, Compound Disadvantage, and Health Inequities.- Ethics, Responsibility, and Social Patterning of Risky Health Behaviors.- The Unbearable Oughtness of Public Health Policy.- The Social Determinants of Health and Public Health Practice.- Conclusion.