Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health: Ethical and Social Justice Issues

Sridhar Venkatapuram

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190245191.013.24

Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health: Ethical and Social Justice Issues

Sridhar Venkatapuram

Global Health Institute

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The term health disparities (also called health inequalities) refers to the differences in health outcomes and related events across individuals and social groups. Social determinants of health, meanwhile, refers to certain types of causes of ill health in individuals, including lack of early infant care and stimulation, lack of safe and secure employment, poor housing conditions, discrimination, lack of self-respect, poor personal relationships, low community cohesion, and income inequality. These social determinants stand in contrast to others, such as individual biology, behaviors, and proximate exposures to harmful agents. This chapter presents some of the revolutionary findings of social epidemiology and the science of social determinants of health, and shows how health disparities and social determinants raise profound questions in public health ethics and social/global justice philosophy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics
Publisher	Oxford University Press
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190245191.013.24
Publication status	Published - 11 Feb 2019

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health disparities, health inequalities, social determinants of health, social epidemiology, social justice, global justice, public health ethics

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