RT Article
T1 The sufficiency theory of justice and the allocation of health resources
JF Bioethics
VO 38
IS 9
SP 796
OP 802
A1 Timmer, Dick
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1906007683
AB 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.
K1 Threshold
K1 Sufficientarianism
K1 Health Care
K1 Health
K1 Distributive Justice
DO 10.1111/bioe.13338