Why health equity?

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Health EconomicsVolume 11, Issue 8 p. 659-666 Guest EditorialFree Access Why health equity? Amartya Sen, Amartya Sen Trinity College, Cambridge, UKSearch for more papers by this author Amartya Sen, Amartya Sen Trinity College, Cambridge, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 27 November 2002 https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.762Citations: 343AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References 1 Sen A. Inequality Reexamined. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1992. 2 Sen A. Equality of what? In Tanner Lectures on Human Values, S McMurrin (ed.). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, University of Utah: Salt Lake City, 1980, and see Ref. [1]. 3 Sen A. Collective Choice and Social Welfare. Holden-Day:: San Francisco, 1970; (republished, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1979). 4 Sen A. Maximisation and the act of choice. Econometrica 1997; 65: 745– 779. 5 Marmot MG, Davey Smith G, Stansfeld SA et al. Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study. Lancet 1991; 337: 1387– 1393. 6 Marmot MG, Bobak M, Davey Smith G. Explorations for social inequalities in health. In Society and Health, BC Amick, S Levine, AR Tarlov, D Chapman. (eds). Oxford University Press: London, 1995. 7 Wilkinson RG. The Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality. Routledge: New York, 1996. 8 Sen A. Well-being, agency and freedom: the Dewey lectures 1984. Journal of Philosophy 1985; 82: 169– 221. 9 Sen A. Consequential evaluation and practical reason. Journal of Philosophy 2000; 97: 477– 502. 10 Rawls J. A Theory of Justice. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1971. 11 Murray CJL, Quantifying the burden of disease: the technical basis for Disability Adjusted Life Years. Bulletin of World Health Organization 1994; 72. 12 Murray CJL, Lopez AD. The Global Burden of Disease. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1996. 13 World Health Organization. World Health Report. WHO: Geneva, 2000. 14 Anand S, Hansen K. Disability adjusted life years: a critical review. J Health Econ 1997; 16(6): 685– 702. 15 Anand S, Hansen K. DALYs: Efficiency versus equity. World Development 1998; 26(2): 307– 310. 16 Williams A. If we are going to get fair innings, someone need to keep the score. In Health, Health Care and Health Economics. ML Barer, TE Getzen, GL Stoddart (eds). Wiley: New York, 1998; 330. 17 Culyer AJ, Wagstaff A. Equity and equality in health and health care. J Health Econ 1993; 12: 431– 457. 18 Culyer AJ. Equality of what in health policy? Conflicts between contenders. Discussion Paper No. 142, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, 1995. 19 Barer ML, Getzen TE, Stoddart GL (eds). Wiley: New York, 1998. 20 Williams A. Intergenerational equity: an exploration of the ‘fair innings’ argument. Health Econ 1997; 6: 117– 132. 21 Anand P, Walloo A. Utilities versus right to publically provided goods: arguments and evidence from health care rationing. Economica 2000; 67: 543– 577. Citing Literature Volume11, Issue8December 2002Pages 659-666 ReferencesRelatedInformation