ÍNDICE: Amartya Sen: Preface Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: Introduction I. Health Equity 1 Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2 Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3 Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4 Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi: Why Justice is Good for Our Health: The Social Determinants of Health Inequalities 5 Fabienne Peter: Health Equity and Social Justice III. Responsibility for Health and Health Care 6 Daniel Wikler: Justice, Socioeconomic Status, and Responsibility for Health 7 Thomas Pogge: Relational Conceptions of Justice: Responsibilities for Health Outcomes 8 Philippe Van Parijs: Just Health Care in a Plurinational Country IV. Ethical and Measurement Problems in Health Evaluation 9 Sudhir Anand and Kara Hanson: Disability-adjusted Life Years: A Critical Review 10 Dan Brock: Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Care Resources 11 Frances Kamm: Deciding Whom to Help, Health-Adjusted Life Years, and Disabilities 12 John Broome: The Value of Living Longer V. Equity and Conflicting Perspectives on Health Evaluation 13 Amartya Sen: Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives 14 Arthur Kleinman: Ethics and Experience: An Anthropological Approach to Health Equity 15 Vincanne Adams: Equity of the Ineffable: Cultural and Political Constraints on Ethnomedicine as a Health Problem in Contemporary Tibet