Select language

Saltar al contenido

Human Development &
Capability Association

Agency, Well-Being and Justice

  • Type

  • Thematic group

  • Region

  • Search

  1. Webinar: “Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Why have approaches differed and what should be the focus of future research?”

    …approach this webinar identifies two distinct motivations: facilitating agreement on a core concept of health with which to drive policy reform; and the adoption of capability as an alternative to utilitarian health maximisation, in the context of resource allocation. The difference is between the protection and promotion of health as the objective of policy reform and of health as a means to the enhancement of a broader capability set. Speaker’s…

  2. Webinar: Different Interpretations of the Capability Approach in a Health Care Context: Why have approaches differed and what should be the focus of future research?

    …th Economics Unit of the University of Birmingham. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation. In particular, Philip is interested in the use of the capability approach within health economics in order to capture the broader benefits of health and social care. Participants must register to participate in this webinar. Details on how to participate will be sent to you a few days before the webi…

  3. HDCA’s Children, Education, and Health & Disability Thematic groups’ joint Webinar on: “Psychotropic Kids: navigating children’s right to health and right to refuse treatment in contexts of poverty”

    …e Webinar: China Mills will present a paper that explores the tensions between children’s right to access psychiatric treatment, and their right to refuse treatment, within growing advocacy (from the World Health Organization and the Movement for Global Mental Health) to ‘scale up’ access to psychotropic drugs for children in the global South. It will map the physical, psychological and socio-political effects of increasingly global psychotropic i…

scroll to top