The Mismarriage of Personal Responsibility and Health
This paper begins with a simple illustration of the choice between individual and population strategies in population health policy. It describes the traditional approach on which the choice is to be made on the relative merits of the two strategies in each case. It continues by identifying two fact...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2020
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 196-204 |
| Further subjects: | B
individual risk management strategy of public health
B epidemiological transition B Personal Responsibility B Luck Egalitarianism B responsibility-sensitivity B justice in health care B population risk management strategy of public health |
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| Summary: | This paper begins with a simple illustration of the choice between individual and population strategies in population health policy. It describes the traditional approach on which the choice is to be made on the relative merits of the two strategies in each case. It continues by identifying two factors—our knowledge of the consequences of the epidemiological transition and the prevalence of responsibility-sensitive theories of distributive justice—that may distort our moral intuitions when we deliberate about the choice of appropriate risk-management strategies in population health. It argues that the confluence of these two factors may lead us to place too much emphasis on personal responsibility in health policy. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180119000999 |