Sridhar Venkatapuram
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 123338 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sridhar Venkatapuram |
| NOMBRES | Sridhar |
| APELLIDO | Venkatapuram |
| FIRMA | VENKATAPURAM S |
| AFILIACIONES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3076-0783 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Expertise in global health and global health ethics
This commentary discusses how professionalisation and expertise is both a positive, constructive project as well as an exclusionary one. The discussion suggests that global health, rather than being a new sub-field of science catalysed by new discoveries, is better understood as being part of the economic and scientific expansionism of the few richest G7 countries. It is argued that global health expertise, aside from scientific expertise, also i…
Halfway There, Long Way to Go
As we mark the anniversary of the publication of the 2030 Agenda mid-term report, the world's nations stand at a crossroads. While off-track in achieving most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), multiple crises have further exposed deep inequalities and vulnerabilities in the current dominant approach centred on economic growth and resource allocations. In this editorial paper, scholars of the human development and capability association and ed…
How should we prioritise global surgery? A capabilities approach argument for the place of surgery within every health system
In the rapidly evolving landscape of global health issues and policy, surgery has historically been sidelined due to concerns about high cost, complexity and other concerns including quantitatively less surgical disease burden in comparison to infectious disease or other health conditions. Now, in the context of pandemics, climate change, shrinking health budgets and other global health security concerns, the hard-won progress in raising the prof…
What is a justice-oriented approach to global health
Strategies for Researching Programs’ Impact on Capability
Researchers seeking to assess the impact of a program on the capability of its target audience face numerous methodological challenges. The purpose of our review was to see to what extent such challenges are recognised and what choices researchers made in order to address them, and why. We identified 3354 studies by searching five databases in addition to cross-checking references from selected studies. A total of 71 studies met our pre-defined s…
Occupational science, values and justice
In a thoughtful reflection on the emergence and purpose of occupational science, Venkatapuram poses issues for occupational therapists in relation to what it means to be a science. Citing debates within epidemiology, characterized as being a biological or social science, Venkatapuram argues that in the post-pandemic context occupational scientists must think hard about the values underpinning their enterprise, and the implications for people’s qu…
Developing a global practice-based framework of person-centred care from primary data
Introduction Person-centred care (PCC) is internationally recognised as a critical component of high-quality healthcare. However, PCC evolved in a few high-income countries and there are limited data exploring this concept across the vast majority of countries which are low- and middle-income. This study aimed to appraise and adapt a PCC model across three serious physical conditions in three middle-income countries and generate an evidence-based…
Going global with social determinants of health
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been marred by a widespread failure to embed ethics in policymaking. The consequences have included vaccine hoarding by rich countries and the deaths of millions of people around the world. Governments have followed a simplistic narrative of science and finance teaming up against a virus and delivering a silver bullet in the form of a new vaccine, rather than recognizing that a health emergency ref…
Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Public Health
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health
In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar. What is public health, and perhaps as importantly, what should public health be or become? How do causal concepts shape the public health agenda? How do study designs either promote or demote the environmental causal factors or health inequalities? How is risk understood, expressed, and communicated? Who is public health research centered on? How can we devel…
Just allocation of Covid-19 vaccines
Authorized COVID-19 vaccines must be distributed fairly. Several proposals have emerged offering guidelines for how to do this. However, insofar as the aim is to have the greatest health impact, these proposals fall short. We offer three suggestions to strengthen them The most advanced attempt at coordinating vaccine distribution is the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility, a collaboration that brings together governments, companies, …
Digital Technology and the Political Determinants of Health Inequities
This special issue introduction makes the case for analyzing the rise of digital health technologies within global public health within the framework of political determinants of health and identifying how digital technologies impact, both positively and negatively, inequities in health. This special issue brings together diverse perspectives from academics, policy makers, practitioners and activists from around the world, most of whom participat…
Pandemic as revelation
This essay identifies three insights about global equity and justice in light of the COVID pandemic. It discusses the need for greater recognition of the role of the global order in the distribution of harms; the lack of capacity within global institutions to reason about social and global equity and justice; and the necessity to recognize and address racism as a driver of human deprivations and death
Vulnerable
Contextual equipoise
The call for universal health coverage requires the urgent implementation and scale-up of interventions that are known to be effective, in resource-poor settings. Achieving this objective requires high-quality implementation research (IR) that evaluates the complex phenomenon of the influence of context on the ability to effectively deliver evidence-based practice. Nevertheless, IR for global health is failing to apply a robust, theoretically dri…
The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of person-centred care for serious illness
Prioritarian principles for digital health in low resource settings
This theoretical paper argues for prioritarianism as an ethical underpinning for digital health in contexts of extreme disadvantage. In support of this claim, the paper develops three prioritarian principles for making ethical decisions for digital health programme design, grounded in the normative position that the greater the need (of the marginalised), the stronger the moral claim. The principles are positioned as an alternative view to the pr…
Grounding the right to live in the community (CRPD Article 19) in the capabilities approach to social justice
For advocates of the rights of persons with disabilities, particularly persons with mental disabilities, the human right to live in the community as an equal member is seen to be central and, often, even as the basis for all other human rights. Yet, despite its articulation in human rights law in the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), foundational issues about the right remain undertheorized and unclear. This paper bring…
Health Research and Social Justice Philosophy
Situating medical and scientific research within a framework or theory of social justice is long overdue. Attempting to extend principles of research ethics beyond the clinic and lab to other affected people or consequences tolerates or obfuscates injustice. While it must be done, the timescales, methodologies, and commitment to real‐world impact are quite different in research ethics versus political philosophy
Human Capabilities and Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of nations, and threatens to erase significant achievements in development. These achievements have been partially motivated by the Capabilities Approach. To stem the widening and entrenchment of inequalities as so happens after epidemics and pandemics reflected in history, policy makers must understand and apply the CA to the COVID-19 response. Three aspects of the CA, including its critique of domina…
Integration and beyond
Social Gradient in Capabilities
Those of us interested in human centered development and/or the capability approach share at least one common concern. It is that the prevailing focus in development policy and planning tends to be
Capability to be healthy – Implications for prevention
Limitations of the Millennium Development Goals
Global Justice and the Social Determinants of Health
This article discussion the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of health, its underlying social epidemiology, and the implications for global health justice
Health, Luck, and Justice
Segall, S. Health, Luck, and Justice . Princeton : Princeton University Press 2010 252 pp. $35.00/£24.95 (cloth) ISBN 978-0691-14053-7 (e-Book) ISBN 978-1-4008-3171-5 Over the last thirty years a group of academic philosophers has developed the view that the essence of egalitarianism—what follows from the equal moral worth of persons—lies in neutralising the effects of bad luck on a person’s life prospects; that a society or government showing eq…
Occupational science, values and justice
In a thoughtful reflection on the emergence and purpose of occupational science, Venkatapuram poses issues for occupational therapists in relation to what it means to be a science. Citing debates within epidemiology, characterized as being a biological or social science, Venkatapuram argues that in the post-pandemic context occupational scientists must think hard about the values underpinning their enterprise, and the implications for people’s qu…
Human Capabilities and Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of nations, and threatens to erase significant achievements in development. These achievements have been partially motivated by the Capabilities Approach. To stem the widening and entrenchment of inequalities as so happens after epidemics and pandemics reflected in history, policy makers must understand and apply the CA to the COVID-19 response. Three aspects of the CA, including its critique of domina…
Subjective wellbeing
The article reviews the current theory and measurement of subjective wellbeing (SWB). The first two sections discuss growing efforts in many countries to measure and monitor national wellbeing, particularly in the United Kingdom. The third and fourth sections discuss the novelty and controversies about SWB research. It concludes that a critical approach is essential in evaluating SWB research but dismissing it offhand or framing it as antithetica…
Global Justice and the Social Determinants of Health
This article discussion the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of health, its underlying social epidemiology, and the implications for global health justice
Health, Luck, and Justice
Segall, S. Health, Luck, and Justice . Princeton : Princeton University Press 2010 252 pp. $35.00/£24.95 (cloth) ISBN 978-0691-14053-7 (e-Book) ISBN 978-1-4008-3171-5 Over the last thirty years a group of academic philosophers has developed the view that the essence of egalitarianism—what follows from the equal moral worth of persons—lies in neutralising the effects of bad luck on a person’s life prospects; that a society or government showing eq…
Health Justice
Limitations of the Millennium Development Goals
Subjective wellbeing
The article reviews the current theory and measurement of subjective wellbeing (SWB). The first two sections discuss growing efforts in many countries to measure and monitor national wellbeing, particularly in the United Kingdom. The third and fourth sections discuss the novelty and controversies about SWB research. It concludes that a critical approach is essential in evaluating SWB research but dismissing it offhand or framing it as antithetica…
Capability to be healthy – Implications for prevention
Integration and beyond
Social Gradient in Capabilities
Those of us interested in human centered development and/or the capability approach share at least one common concern. It is that the prevailing focus in development policy and planning tends to be
Vulnerable
Contextual equipoise
The call for universal health coverage requires the urgent implementation and scale-up of interventions that are known to be effective, in resource-poor settings. Achieving this objective requires high-quality implementation research (IR) that evaluates the complex phenomenon of the influence of context on the ability to effectively deliver evidence-based practice. Nevertheless, IR for global health is failing to apply a robust, theoretically dri…
The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of person-centred care for serious illness
Prioritarian principles for digital health in low resource settings
This theoretical paper argues for prioritarianism as an ethical underpinning for digital health in contexts of extreme disadvantage. In support of this claim, the paper develops three prioritarian principles for making ethical decisions for digital health programme design, grounded in the normative position that the greater the need (of the marginalised), the stronger the moral claim. The principles are positioned as an alternative view to the pr…
Grounding the right to live in the community (CRPD Article 19) in the capabilities approach to social justice
For advocates of the rights of persons with disabilities, particularly persons with mental disabilities, the human right to live in the community as an equal member is seen to be central and, often, even as the basis for all other human rights. Yet, despite its articulation in human rights law in the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), foundational issues about the right remain undertheorized and unclear. This paper bring…
Health Research and Social Justice Philosophy
Situating medical and scientific research within a framework or theory of social justice is long overdue. Attempting to extend principles of research ethics beyond the clinic and lab to other affected people or consequences tolerates or obfuscates injustice. While it must be done, the timescales, methodologies, and commitment to real‐world impact are quite different in research ethics versus political philosophy
Human Capabilities and Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of nations, and threatens to erase significant achievements in development. These achievements have been partially motivated by the Capabilities Approach. To stem the widening and entrenchment of inequalities as so happens after epidemics and pandemics reflected in history, policy makers must understand and apply the CA to the COVID-19 response. Three aspects of the CA, including its critique of domina…
Just allocation of Covid-19 vaccines
Authorized COVID-19 vaccines must be distributed fairly. Several proposals have emerged offering guidelines for how to do this. However, insofar as the aim is to have the greatest health impact, these proposals fall short. We offer three suggestions to strengthen them The most advanced attempt at coordinating vaccine distribution is the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility, a collaboration that brings together governments, companies, …
Digital Technology and the Political Determinants of Health Inequities
This special issue introduction makes the case for analyzing the rise of digital health technologies within global public health within the framework of political determinants of health and identifying how digital technologies impact, both positively and negatively, inequities in health. This special issue brings together diverse perspectives from academics, policy makers, practitioners and activists from around the world, most of whom participat…
Pandemic as revelation
This essay identifies three insights about global equity and justice in light of the COVID pandemic. It discusses the need for greater recognition of the role of the global order in the distribution of harms; the lack of capacity within global institutions to reason about social and global equity and justice; and the necessity to recognize and address racism as a driver of human deprivations and death
Developing a global practice-based framework of person-centred care from primary data
Introduction Person-centred care (PCC) is internationally recognised as a critical component of high-quality healthcare. However, PCC evolved in a few high-income countries and there are limited data exploring this concept across the vast majority of countries which are low- and middle-income. This study aimed to appraise and adapt a PCC model across three serious physical conditions in three middle-income countries and generate an evidence-based…
Going global with social determinants of health
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been marred by a widespread failure to embed ethics in policymaking. The consequences have included vaccine hoarding by rich countries and the deaths of millions of people around the world. Governments have followed a simplistic narrative of science and finance teaming up against a virus and delivering a silver bullet in the form of a new vaccine, rather than recognizing that a health emergency ref…
Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Public Health
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health
In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar. What is public health, and perhaps as importantly, what should public health be or become? How do causal concepts shape the public health agenda? How do study designs either promote or demote the environmental causal factors or health inequalities? How is risk understood, expressed, and communicated? Who is public health research centered on? How can we devel…
How should we prioritise global surgery? A capabilities approach argument for the place of surgery within every health system
In the rapidly evolving landscape of global health issues and policy, surgery has historically been sidelined due to concerns about high cost, complexity and other concerns including quantitatively less surgical disease burden in comparison to infectious disease or other health conditions. Now, in the context of pandemics, climate change, shrinking health budgets and other global health security concerns, the hard-won progress in raising the prof…
What is a justice-oriented approach to global health
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