Justice and Health Care

Distributive justice and health care.

Justice and rights to health care.

Justice and equal opportunities in health care.

The principle that each individual is entitled to an equal opportunity to benefit from any public health care system, and that this entitlement is proportionate neither to the size of their chance of benefitting, nor to the quality of the benefit, nor to the length of lifetime remaining in which that benefit may be enjoyed, runs counter to most current thinking about the allocation of resources...

Market justice and US health care.

IN THE UNITED STATES, HEALTH CARE COMPETES FOR CONsumers with other items in the marketplace. Individual resources and choices determine the distribution of health care, with little sense of collective obligation or a role for government. Known as market justice, this approach derives from principles of individualism, selfinterest, personal effort, and voluntary behavior. The contrasting approa...

Healthy Justice: A Liberation Approach to Justice in Health Care

Without social justice, we cannot promote population health nor a universal public health system necessary to support it. In the words of Norman Daniels “social justice is good for our health.”1 Catholic social teaching has important insights to contribute to the social justice debate in health and public health care. Drawing upon this tradition, I will explore the concepts of justice and the c...