Justice and Equal Opportunities in 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...

Distributive justice and health care.

hepatitis b immunization in health care workers: needs and opportunities

Equal access to health care.

Equal access to health care A t the heart of the December editorial on poverty and health is the issue of what we as physicians can do about the problem. Dr McGregor clearly reviews the evidence that poor health is one of the miseries attributable to poverty. While accepting that reducing poverty in this country is beyond the capabilities of doctors, she does urge us to be advocates for tacklin...

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...