Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS)

Judgments of moral responsibility play a central role in moral cognition. They guide thoughts about how people deserve to be treated, how blame, credit, punishment, and rewards should be apportioned, and what constitutes a just distribution of resources. At the same time, view...

Welfare is a complex concept that includes individuals’ resources in
various areas, such as health, the labour market, economic resources and
educational opportunities. Individuals who lack resources in several of
these areas have been considered to be exposed to multipl...

The persistence of health inequalities in high income countries with extensive welfare arrangements is one of the major disappointments in public health. ‘Social causation’ models emphasize how social inequalities in early life can generate health inequalities late...