Bioethics, health, and inequality

Bioethics, philosophy, and global health.

Modelling health, income and income inequality: the impact of income inequality on health and health inequality.

A framework is developed to analyse the impact of the distribution of income on individual health and health inequality, with individual health modelled as a function of income and the distribution of income. It is demonstrated that the impact of income inequality can generate non-concave health production functions resulting in a non-concave health production possibility frontier. In this cont...

Medicine, health and bioethics today and tomorrow

Medicine is the entire history of the human race still finding their place alongside men. Allowed him all the joy of life as it should be viewed as a brilliant array of knowledge and skills that enable human quality of life. So it was from the earliest days of human history when its parts considered sorcerers' skills, or all sorts of witchcraft. Today's medicine is considered a modern scientifi...

Bioethics - Public Health - Oxford Bibliographies

Public health has made enormous contributions to global health through policies and interventions. However, public health measures have also increased human suffering through policies of forced sterilization, mandatory screening of vulnerable populations, detention of people with infectious diseases, and the quarantine and social isolation of “sick” people or communities. Until recently, the va...

Socio-Economic Inequality and Mental Health in Tehran, Iran

  Background and Objectives: Understanding and analyzing the socio-economic factors affecting mental health is important for mental health policy-making in metropolitan areas. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between socio-economic factors and mental health of households living in Tehran.   Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 6...