Dear Colleagues,
Alan Williams and Rebecca Shaw has asked me to post the following
message to the list. I have asked them to collate interesting responses and
post these to the list.
David
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
London School of Economics and Political Science
With some colleagues we are engaged in a study designed to elicit
people's degree of aversion to different sorts of health inequality.
When trying to "explain" such differences in attitudes one might
expect
that people will be influenced by self-interest, but sometimes it
seems
that the victims blame themselves, and sometimes they deny the
existence
of the inequality even when it is pointed out to them. These
are
just examples of the sort of propositions we are trying to organise
into
some systematic conceptual framework. There may be others that we
should be considering as well.
We have hunted in vain for any general propositions, grounded in
theory,
which would give us some basis for predicting, from people's
observable
characteristics, what their attitudes to different sorts of health
inequality might be. Any prompt help, citing relevant literature,
would be extremely welcome!
Alan Williams ([log in to unmask]) and/or Rebecca Shaw
([log in to unmask])
(please reply to both if possible)
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