Why health equity?

By Amartya Sen. Health Economics, 2002

769 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In General Health Professions

1. Alois Stutzer
2. Sophie Mitra
3. Angus Deaton
4. Richard A. Easterlin
5. Bruno S. Frey
6. Bernard M. S. Van Praag
7. M. Wooden
8. Carol Graham

In Health

1. Alois Stutzer
2. Sophie Mitra
3. Angus Deaton
4. Richard A. Easterlin
5. Andrew E. Clark
6. Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
7. L. Klapper
8. William R. Easterly

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Alois Stutzer
2. Sophie Mitra
3. Angus Deaton

Citations in the corpus

• Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility (2002, background): “For example, Sen (2002) argues that inequalities in health care matter beyond inequalities in health achievement.”
• Policy implications of the gradient of health and wealth. (2002, background): “I have found it consistently helpful to think in terms of individual well-being within a broad, equitypreferring social objective, but also to follow Amartya Sen in noting that this welfarist approach by itself is insufficient and that we need to respect other considerations, one of which is process”
• The Capability Approach and Disability (2006, background): “Health is a major concern is Sen’s capability approach, whether it is considered as part of an individual’s well-being or whether health equity is analyzed as part of the justice of social arrangements (Sen, 2002).”