EQUAL CARE

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 an