Health and Social Justice

by Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., associate professor of public health (Oxford University Press) Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly affect the distribution of health care. 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 measure health disparities, and determine whether they’ve been adequately addressed? Who is responsible for various aspects of this important social problem? In this book Ruger elucidates principles to guide these decisions, the evidence that should inform them, and the policies necessary to build equitable and efficient health systems worldwide.