Philosophic Perspectives on Access to Health Care: Distributive Justice in Health Care

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 90-95

  Buchanan, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 0031091946     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. Feinberg J. The nature and value of rights. In: Moral problems in medicine, Gorovitz S. et al., eds. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 1976:454-67.
2. Daniels N. Just health care. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University, 1985. Daniels has emphasized the importance of preventing loss of or restoring functioning as a goal of health care, and has stressed the importance of normal species functioning for individual's opportunities.
3. Securing access to health care, vol. 1, Report, President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982:11-47. Provides an account of what makes health care valuable.
4. Buchanan A. The right to a 'decent minimum' of health care. Philos Public Affairs 1983; 13(1):55-78. An examination of various arguments for the right to health care as the right to an adequate level of care.