Public Health, Ethics, and Equity LBJ Focusing on key developments such

Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system

a neurosurgeon who was an undocumented alien and once worked as a restaurant busboy

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so that economic laws began to operate spontaneously

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Public Health, Ethics, and Equity LBJ Focusing on key developments suchIt is widely recognized that health is influenced by a variety of social, economic and environmental factors, and not just by access to health care. The extensive empirical literature on the social determinants of and inequalities in health has yet to be matched by an appreciation of the normative underpinnings of health equity. Health equity expresses a commitment of public health to social justice, which raises a series of ethical issues. Why, if at