Equal Care

Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State

Seth A. Berkowitz

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Johns Hopkins University Press
27 February 2024

Public health & safety law; Public health & preventive medicine; Medicolegal issues

Introduces a vision for the future of health equity and explains practical policy measures for how to achieve it.

Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. In Equal Care, Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, offers an innovative vision for the future of health equity by examining the social mechanisms that link injustice to poor health. He also presents practical policies designed to create a system of social relations that ensures equal care for everyone.

As Berkowitz illustrates, the project of social democracy works to improve health by bringing relationships of equality to the sites of human cooperation: in civil society, in political processes, and in economic activities. This book synthesizes three elements necessary for such a project—normative justification, mechanistic knowledge, and technical proficiency—into a practical vision of how to create health equity. Drawing from the fields of medicine, social epidemiology, sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, and more, Berkowitz makes clear that health inequity is social failure embodied, and the only true cures are political. Equal Care is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of health equity.

By: Seth A. Berkowitz
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781421448244
ISBN 10: 1421448246
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 27 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. What Is Health Equity? 3. Equality of What? 4. Democratic Equality 5. How Injustice Harms Health 6. Inegalitarian Ideologies and Health 7. The Theory of the Welfare State 8. Economics of the Welfare State 9. Financing the Welfare State 10. Practice of the Welfare State 11. Transfer Income Policy I: In-Kind Services 12. Transfer Income Policy II: Cash Benefits 13. Factor Income Policy 14. Civil and Political Rights 15. Conclusions References Index

Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, a general internist, practicing primary care physician, and clinician investigator, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.