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Public Health Ethics Advance Access published online on October 29, 2009
Public Health Ethics, doi:10.1093/phe/php031
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. Available online at www.phe.oxfordjournals.org

A Bird's Eye View. Two Topics at the Intersection of Social Determinants of Health and Social Justice Philosophy

Sridhar Venkatapuram*

University College London

* Corresponding author: DFID-ESRC Research Fellow, UCL, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT; Email: s.venkatapuram{at}ucl.ac.uk.


  Abstract

The article discusses two areas at the intersection of social determinants of health research and social justice theory. The first section examines the affinity between social epidemiology and the capabilities approach. The second section examines how social epidemiology's expansion of the scope of the causal chain and determinants raises questions about epistemology and ontology in epidemiology as well as the field's link to the moral concern for human health.


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