Measuring health inequities: Strengthening the dialogue between normative political theory and empirical studies

• Grant number: 18/10878-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2018
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
• Principal Investigator: Marta Teresa da Silva Arretche
• Grantee: Marcos Paulo de Lucca Silveira
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies, AP.CEPID

Abstract

This research aims to strengthen the dialogue between the contemporary normative political theory, especially theories on distributive justice and population health, and the empirical studies on health inequalities. The objective is to address a normative problem concerning the identification and measurement of unjust health inequalities and, then, to make a comprehensive, normatively oriented, diagnosis of the unjust health inequalities existing in the contemporary Brazilian context. This normative issue can be synthesized in the following research question: how should we identify and measure the health inequalities existing in real circumstances, which are relevant from a perspective of justice? As a strategy for elaborating an adequate answer to this research problem, we will divide this question in two more specific ones. It will be sought to present a normative reflection (1) about the correct distribuendum that should inform our considerations of justice and population health and (2) about the appropriate first principle of justice that must guide our claims on distributive justice and population health. A research hypothesis is that the metric adopted for measurement of population health inequities should measure health inequalities between relevant social groups, favoring the identification of aggregate inequalities and disadvantages among socieconomic groups instead of adopting metrics focused on individual health.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

HUMBERTO, MATEUS; PIZZOL, BRUNA; MOURA, FILIPE; GIANNOTTI, MARIANA; DE LUCCA-SILVEIRA, MARCOS PAULO. Investigating the Mobility Capabilities and Functionings in Accessing Schools Through Walking: A Quantitative Assessment of Public and Private Schools in Sao Paulo (Brazil). JOURNAL OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITIES, v. 21, n. 2, MAR 2020. (18/10878-7)