Just Health Care

Toward a more just health care system.

Mercy health promoter: A paradigm for just health care

The foreign-born population in the United States, according to the "Current Populations Report" published in 2010, is estimated to exceed 39.9 million, or "12.9 percent of the U.S. population." The increase in foreign-born peoples and their need for health care is a complicated issue facing many cities, health systems and hospitals. Over the course of the past few years Mercy Hospital of Philad...

Just Solidarity: the Key to Fair Health Care Rationing

I agree with Professor ter Meulen that there is no need to make a forced choice between “justice” and “solidarity” when it comes to determining what should count as fair access to needed health care. But he also asserts that solidarity is more fundamental than justice. That claim needs critical assessment. Ter Meulen recognizes that the concept of solidarity has been criticized for being excess...

Just-In-Time Context-Sensitive Questioning for Preventative Health Care

This paper argues that there is an emerging opportunity for artificial intelligence researchers: the development of technologies that enable a new type of “proactive health care system” that continuously monitors “healthy patients” in their homes and motivates lifelong healthy behavior and health self-awareness. The components of the system, which would augment but not replace traditional healt...

The just provision of health care : A reply to

Dr Hillel Steiner in this reply to Elizabeth Telfer takes each of her arguments for different arrangements of a health service and examines them'four positions which can be located on a linear ideological spectrum' and adds a fifth which could have the effect of 'turning the alleged linear spectrum into a circle'. Underlying both Elizabeth Telfer's article and Dr Steiner's reply, the base is in...