{"product_id":"equal-care-health-equity-social-democracy-and-the-egalitarian-state-9781421448244","title":"Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduces a vision for the future of health equity and explains practical policy measures for how to achieve it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealth 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 \u003ci\u003eEqual Care\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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. \u003ci\u003eEqual Care\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of health equity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, \u003c\/b\u003e a general internist, practicing primary care physician, and clinician investigator, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50706443108626,"sku":"9781421448244","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1c6a96f6-ab34-4436-a2f2-0535f86ee1f5.jpg?v=1734491879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/equal-care-health-equity-social-democracy-and-the-egalitarian-state-9781421448244","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}