Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inequality and health / Larry S. Temkin -- Health inequality, health inequity and health spending / Anthony B. Atkinson -- A summary measure of health inequalities : incorporating group and individual inequalities / Yukiko Asada -- When group measures of health should matter / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen -- Priority to the worse off : severity of current and future illness versus shortfall in lifetime health / Erik Nord -- Egalitarian concerns and population change / Gustaf Arrhenius -- Egalitarian critiques of health inequalities / Daniel M. Hausman -- Decide as you would with full information! An argument against ex ante Pareto / Alex Voorhoeve and Marc Fleurbaey -- Uncertainty and justifiability to each person : response to Fleurbaey and Voorhoeve / Johann Frick -- Equality of opportunity for health / Shlomi Segall -- When in doubt, equalize presumption of equality justified / Wlodek Rabinowicz -- Reducing health disparities : no simple matter / Norman Daniels -- Levelling down health / Nir Eyal -- Atkinson's index applied to health : can measures of economic inequality help us understand trade-offs in healthcare priority setting? / Ole F. Norheim -- Rationing and rationality : the cost of avoiding discrimination / Toby Ord and Nick Beckstead -- Rationing and the disabled : several proposals / F. M. Kamm -- What does the empirical evidence tell us about the injustice of health inequalities? / Angus Deaton -- Fair society healthy lives / Michael Marmot -- Individual responsibility, health and health care / Julian Le Grand -- Reflections on global monitoring of social determinants of health and health equity / Ritu Sadana.