Equity and Population Health: Toward a Broader Bioethics Agenda
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Hastings Center Report
- Vol. 36 (4), 22-35
- https://doi.org/10.1353/hcr.2006.0058
Abstract
Bioethics' traditional focus on clinical relationships and exotic technologies has led the field away from population health, health disparities, and issues of justice. The result: a myopic view that misses the institutional context in which clinical relationships operate and can overlook factors that affect health more broadly than do exotic technologies. A broader bioethics agenda would take up unresolved questions about the distribution of health and the development of fair policies that affect health distribution.Keywords
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