Just Health

Norman Daniels is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor and Professor of Ethics and Populations Health at Harvard School of Public Health. A member of the Institute of Medicine, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a Founding Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and of the International Society for Equity in Health, he has consulted for organisations, commissions, and governments, including the United Nations, WHO, and the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, on issues of justice and health policy. Dr Daniels is the author of numerous books. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and held a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator's Award as well as a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the international adaptation of benchmarks.

'Daniels does us a great service by his introduction of an ethical dimension to his discussion of population health and the allocation of resources. His call for action on the social determinants of health to reduce avoidable inequalities in health is very welcome.' The Lancet

• Introduction; Part I. A Theory of Justice and Health: 1. Three questions of justice; 2. What is the special moral importance of health?; 3. When are health inequalities unjust?: the social determinants of health; 4. How can we meet health needs fairly when we can't meet them at all?; 5. What do we owe each other?: implications of an integrated theory; Part II. Challenges: 6. Global ageing and intergenerational equality; 7. Consent to workplace risk and health protection; 8. Medical professionalism and the care we should get; Part III. Uses: 9. Fairness in health sector reform; 10. Accountability for reasonableness in developing countries: two applications; 11. Reducing health disparities: no simple matter; 12. Priority setting and human rights; Part IV. A Concluding Challenge: 13. International health inequalities and global justice.