Theories Of Health Inequality
To conclude, it is evident that disparities in health status are the direct result of imbalances of power. Theories of disease causation and powerful ideologies such as individualism limit critical thinking about the desirable means for confronting health inequalities. A discourse based on social justice supports collective responsibility for achieving healthy communities and also addresses social and economic conditions at the core of health inequalities. Social justice ensures the systematic treatment of people as members of a definable group, and is in opposition to inequality based on the recognition of common human interests and demanding equitable distribution of collective goods, institutional resurces and life opportunities (Hofrichter,