Equal Care by Seth A. Berkowitz HARDBACK 9781421448244

Equal CareHealth Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State\nAuthor(s): Seth A. Berkowitz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421448244, 978-1421448244\nSynopsis\nIntroduces a vision for the future of health equity and explains practical policy measures for how to achieve it.\n\nHealth 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.\n\nAs Berkowitz illustrates, the project of social democracy works to improve health by bringing relationships of equality to the.