The sufficiency theory of justice and the allocation of health resources
According to the sufficiency theory of justice in health, justice requires that people have equal access to adequate health. In this article, I lay out the structure of this view and I assess its distributive implications for setting priority (i) between health needs across persons and (ii) between...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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Bioethics
Jahr: 2024, Band: 38, Heft: 9, Seiten: 796-802 |
| IxTheo Notationen: | NBE Anthropologie NCC Sozialethik NCH Medizinische Ethik VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Health Care
B Distributive Justice B Health B Sufficientarianism B Threshold |
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| Zusammenfassung: | According to the sufficiency theory of justice in health, justice requires that people have equal access to adequate health. In this article, I lay out the structure of this view and I assess its distributive implications for setting priority (i) between health needs across persons and (ii) between health care spending and other societal goods. I argue, first, that according to the sufficiency theory, deficiency in health cannot be completely offset by providing other societal goods. And, second, that it can prevent the medicalization of societies by stressing that improvements beyond the level of adequate health have relatively little weight, if any, from the standpoint of justice. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13338 |
