Population-Level Bioethics – serie
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Measuring the Global Burden of Disease
Philosophical Dimensions
Av Nir Eyal, Samia A. Hurst m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1628 kr
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The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 195 countries. Its results are a critical tool …
Identified versus Statistical Lives
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Av I Glenn Cohen, I. Glenn Cohen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1299 kr
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On August 5, 2010, a cave-in left thirty-three Chilean miners trapped underground. The Chilean government embarked on a massive rescue effort that is estimated to have cost between ten and twenty million dollars. There is a puzzle here. Many mine safety measures that would have been more cost …
Valuing Health
Well-Being, Freedom, and Suffering
Inbunden, 2015
1507 kr
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In Valuing Health Daniel M. Hausman provides a philosophically sophisticated overview of generic health measurement that suggests improvements in standard methods and proposes a radical alternative. He shows how to avoid relying on surveys and instead evaluate health states directly. Hausman goes …
Reducing Health Inequality
Ethics, Economics and Evidence
Inbunden, 2027
1979 kr
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Reducing social inequality in health is a powerful and widely shared public goal, resonating across political ideologies and social divides. Yet pursuing that goal can sometimes come at the expense of other critical objectives—such as improving total population health or prioritizing care for the …
Saving People from the Harm of Death
Av Espen Gamlund, Carl Tollef Solberg
Inbunden, 2019
1720 kr
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Death is something we mourn or fear as the worst thing that could happen--whether the deaths of close ones, the deaths of strangers in reported accidents or tragedies, or our own. And yet, being dead is something that no one can experience and live to describe. This simple truth raises a host of …
Risk, Death, and Well-Being
The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.A wide range of governmental policies characteristic of the modern …
Distributing Health
Inbunden, 2026
903 kr
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How should scarce health-related resources be distributed at the population level? How should society prioritize whose health needs should be met? These are questions all health systems must grapple with. In Distributing Health, Anders Herlitz introduces the most common normative approaches to this …
Reducing Health Inequality
Ethics, Economics and Evidence
Häftad, 2027
393 kr
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Reducing social inequality in health is a powerful and widely shared public goal, resonating across political ideologies and social divides. Yet pursuing that goal can sometimes come at the expense of other critical objectives—such as improving total population health or prioritizing care for the …
Inequalities in Health
Concepts, Measures, and Ethics
Av Nir Eyal, Samia A. Hurst m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1697 kr
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Of every thousand children born in Iceland, two will die before their first birthday, but in Mozambique the death rate is sixty times higher. Even within countries - including some of the wealthiest - inequalities in longevity and health can be substantial. In recent years, epidemiologists have …
