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"This book pleads for an urgent turn towards directly addressing injustice as a reality that requires pressingly needed arguments and proposals to inspire realistic public health policies and programs based on an ethics of protection. Ever since Hobbes, all shades of political philosophy accept that the basic obligation of the ruling power is to protect its subjects. The ethics of protection emphasizes aiding the needy and the disempowered in obtaining access to basic goods and services related to health-care. Public health is called upon to fulfill protective obligations to guarantee disease prevention and medical services to the population, taking special care to safeguard those unable to cover their health-care needs in market-oriented medical services and institutions. The bioethics of protection developed in this text presents specific and explicit guide-lines to assure that protective public health actions be efficacious (problem-solving), efficient (sustainable cost/benefit relation) and ethically sound (respecting human rights and the common weal). These guide-lines are designed to give ethical support and justification to public health policies even when they require some unavoidable limitations of individual autonomy to promote social health benefits."

"The goal of this guide is to provide health policy-makers with practical information and negotiation tools, to help them create better international health agreements and programs. "

"The Preamble and the Directive Principles of Indias Constitution provide for state intervention for assuring every citizens health and well-being. Yet India has wide disparities and inequalities in the standard of living, with two-thirds of the people without access to tap water and a clean toilet, a third malnourished, over a million children dying before reaching the age of five, and millions dying due to communicable diseases that are treatable at an incredibly low cost. Despite insuring schemes, every year over 60 million are impoverished due to the high cost of care. This is due to abysmal spending on health, weak governance, and poor leadership. Clearly, India has failed to forge a political system founded on the principle of a social contract where ensuring universal access to fundamental public goods-clean air, safe water, sanitation, hygiene, nutritious food and basic healthcare, and security against health-expenditure shocks-is visualized as its primary obligation, not an option. In deeply stratified societies like ours where gender, caste, religion, and residence create barriers that cannot be overcome by individual effort, the negotiating presence of a strong and assertive state becomes necessary. This book discusses the evolution of Indias health policy, followed by a comprehensive discussion on financing and governance in health, and contains two stories about Indias struggle to reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic and revitalizing the primary healthcare system in rural areas under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Finally, it assesses what the future focus should be. It is based on the authors understanding of the health sector acquired over two decades of engagement in various capacities."

"How do trees help reduce violence? What do roads have to do with chronic disease? Prevention Diaries illuminates the unexpected (yet foreseeable) things that shape peoples health and provides the keys to realizing vitality and well-being in the United States. The author draws on thirty-plus years of experience to build the case for prioritizing health throughout society. From healthcare to business practices, urban development to agriculture, the book demonstrates that many of the illnesses and injuries that burden the United States are entirely preventable through common-sense solutions. Prevention Diaries provides effective alternatives to the United States reliance on a healthcare system that focuses on sickness and treatment and explains how health happens in communities and homes, not just at the doctors office. The US system is in crisis precisely because it systematically neglects prevention and wellness. This requires shifting the way society perceives and approaches health, exposing the overreliance on individual solutions rather than taking action to prevent disease and injury before they occur. Diaries shows why prevention is the solution. Telling individuals to be healthier wont succeed if they live and work in unsafe places that promote unhealthy products and behaviors. Working together to support community solutions that increase opportunities for health and safety-like safe access to parks and healthful housing-sets the foundation for a healthier country. Diaries makes it clear that as the United States works to ensure everyone can access medical services, it also must make health, not just healthcare, universally accessible and available."