Background
Ruger, Jennifer Prah was born on June 15, 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
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Health and Social Justice provides a theoretical framework for health ethics, public policy and law in which Dr Ruger introduces the health capability paradigm, an innovative and unique approach which considers the capability of health as a moral imperative. This book is the culmination of more than a decade and a half of work to develop the health capability paradigm, with a vision of a world where all have the capability to be healthy. This vision is grounded in the Aristotelian view of human flourishing and also Amartya Sen's capability approach. In this new paradigm, not just health care, or even just health alone, but the capability for health itself is a moral imperative, as is ensuring the conditions that allow all individuals the means to achieve central health capabilities. Key tenets of health capability include health agency, shared health governance, where individuals, providers and institutions work together to create a social system enabling all to be healthy, and the use of theorized agreements and shared reasoning to guide social choice and shape health policy and decision-making. This book provides philosophical justification for the direct moral importance of health and the capability for health and follows a norms-based approach to health promotion. It employs a joint scientific and deliberative approach to guide health system development and reform, and the allocation of scarce health resources. The health capability paradigm integrates both proceduralist and consequentialist approaches to justice, and both moral and political legitimacy are critical.
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Ruger, Jennifer Prah was born on June 15, 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
Bachelor in Political Economic Industrial Society, University California, Berkeley, 1988. Master of Arts in International Relations, Fletcher School Law & Diplomacy, 1991—1991. Master of Science in Comparative Social Research, Oxford University, 1992—1992.
Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy, Harvard University, 1998.
Professional tennis player Women's International Tennis Association, 1988—1990. Research associate New England Medical Center, Boston, 1993—1995. Health policy analyst Governor's Council Economic Growth & Technology, 1993—1994.
Research associate Harvard School Public Health, 1995—1997, postdoc fellow, 1998—1998. Women's varsity assistant tennis coach Harvard University, Cambridge, 1990—1991, teaching fellow, teaching assistant Boston, 1994—1996, resident tutor Cambridge, 1995—1997, program coordinator & instructor, 1995—1995. Assistant professor Washington University, St. Louis, 2001—2004, Yale Sch Medicine & Public Health, New Haven, 2004—2008, associate professor, since 2008.
Co-director Yale World Health Organization Collaborating Center Health Promotion, Policy & Research, 2005—2008. Speechwriter to president The World Bank, Washington, 2000—2001, health economist, 1998—2000. Satellite secretariat, co-organizer & co-rapporteur World Health Organization, 1998—1998.
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Member of American Public Health Association (chair 2007-2010), Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute of Medicine Working Group on Global Health Governance.
Married Theodore Ruger.