The rights of the medically uninsured: An analysis of social justice and disparate health outcomes

Journal of Health and Social Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 17-36

  Chandler, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contributive justice; Distributive justice; Feminist theory; Health disparity; Libertarian theory; Medically uninsured; Social justice

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL WORK;

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL WELFARE; THEORY;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746628106     PISSN: 08977186     EISSN: 15404064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J045v21n03_02     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. Aday, L. A., Begley, C. E., Lairson, D. R., & Slater, C. H. (1993). Evaluating the Medical Care System: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity. Ann Arbor: Health Administration Press.
2. Baldor, R. A. (2003). Ethical considerations in disease management: A managed care perspective. Disease Management and Health Outcomes, 11, 71-75.
3. Burnier, D. (2003). Other voices/other rooms: Towards a care-centered public administration. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 25, 529-544.
4. Burstein, H. R., Lipsitz, S. R., & Brennan, T. A. (1992). Socioeconomic status and risk for substandard care. Journal of the American Medical Association, 268, 374-379.
5. Carson, R. A. (1998). The paradigm shift in health care and the patient-physician relationship from an American perspective. In U. Trohler, & S. Reiter-Thiel (Eds.). Ethics Codes in Medicine: Foundations and Achievements of Codification Since 1947 (pp. 205-214). Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Company.
6. Crippen, D., & Whetstine, L. (2004). ICU allocation: Life in the fast lane. Critical Care, 3, 47-55.
7. Darr, K. (2002). The uninsured: A reality check. Hospital Topics, 80, 31-35.
8. Floyd, E. J. (2002). Healthcare reform through rationing. Journal of Healthcare Management, 48, 233-241.
9. Franks, P., Clancy, C. M., & Gold, M. R. (1993). Health insurance and mortality: Evidence from a national cohort. Journal of the American Medical Association, 270, 737-741.
10. Gilligan, C. (1982). In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
11. Hadley, J., Steinberg, E. P., & Feder, J. (1991). Comparison of uninsured and privately-insured hospital patients: Condition on admission, resource use, and outcome. Journal of the American Medical Association, 265, 374-379.
12. Harris, J. (1999). Justice and equal opportunities in health care. Bioethics, 13, 392-405.
13. Harris, J. W. (2002). Rights and resources: Libertarians and the right to life. Ratio Juris, 15, 109-121.
14. Holmes, H. B. (1989). A call to heal medicine. Hypatia, 4, 1-8.
15. Institute of Medicine (2002). Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
16. Jackson, P. (2001). The impact of health insurance status on emergency room services. Health and Social Policy, 14, 61-74.
17. Labonte, R. (1998). Health promotion and the common good: Towards a politics of practice. Critical Public Health, 8, 107-129.
18. Litaker, D., & Cebul, R. D. (2003). Managed care penetration, insurance status, and access to health care. Medical Care, 41, 1086-1095.
19. Mains, D. A., Coutasse, A., & Lykens, K. (2003). Physician incentives: Managed care and ethics. Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare, and Ethics, 2, 1-11.
20. Nes, J. A., & Iadicola, P. (1989) Toward a definition of feminist social work: A comparison of liberal, radical, and socialist models. Social Work, 4, 12-21.
21. Nozick, R. (1974). Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books.
22. Pence, G. E. (2000). Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases that Have Shaped Medical Ethics with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Background. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
23. Ritzer, G. (1988). Contemporary Sociological Theory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
24. Roberts, M. J., & Reich, M. R. (2002). Ethical analysis in public health. Lancet, 23, 1055-1059.
25. Rosenberg, C. E. (1999). The twentieth-century fate of the nineteenth-century code. In R. B. Baker, A. L. Caplan, L. L. Emanuel, R. S. Latham (Eds.). The American Medical Ethics Revolution (pp. 207-217). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
26. Saha, S., & Bindman, A. B. (2001). The mirage of available health care for the uninsured. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16, 714-716.
27. Savalescu, J. (1998). Consequentialism, reasons, value, and justice. Bioethics, 12, 213-237.
28. Sox, C. M., Burstin, H. R., Edwards, R. A., O'Neil, A. C., & Brennan, T. A. (1998). Hospital admissions through the emergency department: Does insurance status matter? The American Journal of Medicine, 105, 506-512.
29. Sterba, J. P. (1995). Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
30. Tronto, J. (1993). Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for the Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge.
31. Tunzi, M. (2004). The uninsured. American Family Physician, 69, 1357-1360.
32. Weisman, J. S., May, E., Campbell, C. G., Gokhale, M., Yucei, E., Causino, N. et al. (2003). Limits to the safety net: Teaching hospital faculty report on their patient's access to care. Health Affairs, 22, 156-270.
33. Weisman, J. S., Stern, R., Fielding, S. L., & Epstein, A. M. (1991). Delayed access to health care: Risk factors, reasons, and consequences. Annals of Internal Medicine, 114, 325-331.
34. Zutlevics, T. L. (2002). Towards a theory of oppression. Ratio, 15, 80-103.