An Economist's View of Health Inequalities |
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| Air date: | Friday, March 14, 2008, 10:00:00 AM |
| Category: | OPASI Rounds |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| NLM Title: | An economist's view of health inequalities [electronic resource] / Angus Deaton. |
| Series: | OPASI rounds lecture series |
| Author: | Deaton, Angus. National Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
| Publisher: | [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2008] |
| Other Title(s): | OPASI rounds lecture series |
| Abstract: | (CIT): OPASI ROUNDS Lecture Series Dr. Deaton will discuss "social determinants of health." Health economics has traditionally been concerned with "industrial organization" of health care provision, including insurance, incentives, etc. It is only recently that economists have seriously addressed the issue of why wealth, income, education, and race are correlated with health outcomes, with the associated issues of social justice, and with trying to disentangle causation. The arguments about justice are very strong, both nationally and internationally. But many of the prescriptions of the public health literature, which argue that improving health requires direct social and economic action, on wealth and income inequalities, on tax policy, on educational policy, or to deal with racism in medicine, are at best part of the story, and are sometimes wrong. If we ignore more complex mechanisms, and recommend policies based on a misinterpretation or superficial interpretation of the evidence, there is a risk that we will hurt the people that we wish to help. |
| Subjects: | Health Policy Healthcare Disparities Sociology, Medical--economics |
| Publication Types: | Government Publications Lectures |
| NLM Classification: | W 84.1 |
| NLM ID: | 101470397 |
| CIT File ID: | 14370 |
| CIT Live ID: | 6093 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14370 |
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