Hi
A few years ago, a few of us put together a book (published by the Nuffield Trust) that tried to pull together different disciplinary perspectives and different topics on equity in health/health care (with each perspective written by eminent researchers in each area). The book came out of what we called the Issues Panel in Equity in Health (IPEH), and was really the first thing that HEN produced (Alan Williams and Raymond Illsley worked hard on trying to get it going).
I've recently gone back and had a look at the book, and remembered how good I thought the end product was (but maybe I'm biased). I personally think it's still probably the best thing out there in terms of offering a broad cross-disciplinary approach on the issue. I've listed the main perspectives in the book below: there were also commentaries by John Wyn Owen (who also contributed a lot to establishing HEN), Simon Stevens, Trevor Sheldon and others.
I remember Raymond Illsley commenting when we set up IPEH/HEN that he was curious whether any developments had occcured in the 50 years since he first worked on the issue. I wonder if people think that any further developments have occured in the last 5 years?
Anyway, the IPEH report, if you're interested, is still downloadable (for free) from: http://www.ukhen.org/publications.htm
-David Blane: Where have we got to? Where should we go?
-Raanan Gillon: Value judgments about equity in health
-Roy Carr-Hill and Alan Williams: Measurement issues concerning equity in health
-Roy Carr-Hill: Equity in health: a note on resource allocation
-Mark McCarthy: Causes and contributions of public health
-Julian Le Grand: What kind of health inequality?
-Iona Heath: The role of the NHS in tackling health inequalities
-Rudolf Klein: Inequalities: setting targets?
-Robert Dingwall and Paul Martin: Implications of genetic advances for equity in health
-Raymond Illsley: Policy options
-Alan Williams: Equity and cost-effectiveness: a short note
-Mark Petticrew and Sally Macintyre: What do we know about the effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of measures to reduce inequalities in health?
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