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"Mcdaid,D" <[log in to unmask]>@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on 08/20/2002 04:44:23 AM

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 Subject:  Adressing health inequalities







Dear Colleagues

I've attached below information on a viewpoint paper published in this weeks
Lancet by Adam Oliver, Andrew Healey and Julian Le Grand which is available
freely on-line. Their viewpoint argues that before adopting a policy on health
inequalities firstly a strong ethical framework is required to determine which
inequalities are inequitable, and following this secondly to assess proposed
policies for their value for money.
They argue that "It would be undesirable for any society if health-inequality
policy took precedence over all other considerations, and if health
inequalities--even when they are deemed inequitable--were addressed at all
costs. Ethics and social science, rather than agenda setting and lobbying,
should take centre stage in this international policy debate."
Details below

Best wishes

David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care

Addressing health inequalities

A J Oliver, A T Healey, J LeGrand

Lancet 2002; 360: 565-67

Available at

http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol360/iss9332/full/llan.360.9332.editorial_and_review.22134.1

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