Age rationing and prudential lifespan account in Norman Daniels' Just health

Age rationing and prudential lifespan account in Norman Daniels’ Just health

Could age be a valid criterion for rationing? In Just health, Norman Daniels argues that under certain circumstances age rationing is prudent, and therefore a morally permissible strategy to tackle the problem of resource scarcity. Crucial to his argument is the distinction between two problem-settings of intergenerational equity: equity among age groups and equity among birth cohorts. While fa...

Climate change and Norman Daniels' theory of just health: an essay on basic needs.

Norman Daniels, in applying Rawls' theory of justice to the issue of human health, ideally presupposes that society exists in a state of moderate scarcity. However, faced with problems like climate change, many societies find that their state of moderate scarcity is increasingly under threat. The first part of this essay aims to determine the consequences for Daniels' theory of just health when...

Justice in action? Introduction to the mini symposium on Norman Daniels' Just health: meeting health needs fairly.

BMJ Norman Daniels Accountability for reasonableness

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Justifying Age - Based Health Care Rationing

Introduction Health is not an absolute condition, but is assessed by reference to age and other factors. Therefore, a relative scale is necessary to determine whether an elderly person’s right to health care is being satisfied.1 Today, older Americans are increasingly affected by the growing need to regulate health care delivery. Since 1900, those over the age of 85 years have become twenty-one...