Life style, health status, and distributive justice
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A just social arrangement must guarantee a right to health care for all. This right should be understood as a positive right to basic human functional capabilities. The present article aims to delineate the right to health care as part of an account of distributive justice in health care in...
- Distributive justice in Medicaid capitation: the evidence from Colorado. Callaway, Mary Elizabeth; Hall, Judy; Callaway, M E; Hall, J // Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research;Feb2000, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p87
In 1995, the state of Colorado began a new funding program for the provision of mental health services to Medicaid recipients. Medicaid funding was restructured from a fee-for-service system into a capitated managed care system. The restructuring altered the way in which mental health resources...
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An afterword to the article "Outing the Invisible Poor: Why Economic Justice and Access to Health Care is an LGBT Issue," which appeared in Volume XVII Number issue of the "Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy."
- Public health and social justice: Forging the links. Horn, L. // South African Journal of Bioethics & Law;Nov2015, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p26
The purpose of this article is to explore the concept and scope of public health and to argue that particularly in low-income contexts, where social injustice and poverty often impact significantly on the overall health of the population, the link between public health and social justice should...
- Healthy realism. Menzel, Paul T. // Hastings Center Report;Mar/Apr93, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p44
Reviews the book `Health Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice: The Ironic Triumph,' by Robert P. Rhodes.
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Aim: All civilized societies favour ethical principles of equity. In healthcare, these principles generally focus on needs for medical care. Methods for establishing priorities among such needs are instrumental in this process. In this study, we analysed whether rules on access to healthcare,...
- How Should Political Philosophers Think of Health? Weinstock, Daniel M. // Journal of Medicine & Philosophy;Apr2011, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p424
The political philosophy of health care has been characterized by considerable conceptual inflation in recent years. First, the concept of health that lies at its core has come to encompass ever-increasing aspects of individuals’ existences. And second, the emergence of the public health...
- Justice in Health Care. Narveson, Jan // Journal of Value Inquiry;Sep2006, Vol. 40 Issue 2/3, p371
The article presents a discussion considering an argument against the view that one person is entitled to medical care at the expense of another, thinking that it can be extended to another person. Canadians and Americans believe that health care is a fit subject of general distributive justice....
- Comparing two-dimensional distributions: a questionnaire-experimental approach. Tarroux, Benoît // Social Choice & Welfare;Jan2015, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p87
This paper aims to study the extent to which people's intuitions about the distribution of two attributes within a society are consistent with the different axiomatizations proposed by economists. In particular, the objective is to compare the empirical support for two alternative principles,...
