Yamin, Alicia Ely2019-09-252019-09-252012-06-1520092150-4113http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/185919Being included in the society in which one lives is vital to the material, psychosocial, and political empowerment that underpins social well-being and equitable health. . . . Any serious effort to reduce health inequities will involve changing the distribution of power within society and global regions, empowering individuals and groups to represent strongly and effectively their needs and interests and, in so doing, to challenge and change the unfair and steeply graded distribution of social resources (the conditions for health) to which all, as citizens, have claims and rights.engCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)health ethicssuffering alleviationpowerlessnesspolitical empowermentrights based approachPolitical ethicsBioethicsMedical ethicsHealth ethicsArticle