Grant: Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity

Population health interventions can include policy, programmatic and resource distribution approaches. These interventions raise complex ethical challenges, concerning for example health inequalities, the relations between social efficiency and health equity, the distribution of scare resources and so on. Examining these challenges in order to clarify what types of population health interventions promote health and health equity is an important area of inquiry. This research program therefore aims to investigate the ethical foundations of population health interventions to address the social determinants of health, and to promote health and health equity. It addresses crucial questions like the following: (1) What are the ethical foundations underlying research into the social determinants of health and health inequalities? (2) What are the ethical foundations for determining which measures and research methodologies should be used for assessing health inequalities, and for assessing the efficacy of different interventions in reducing inequality? (3) On what basis should we prioritize different kinds of population health policies and interventions? (4) What populations, sub-populations, and health conditions should we prioritize when addressing health inequalities?