The meaning of 'justice' in health care

Medicine and Law

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 535-545

  Buijsen, Martin ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health care; Justice; Market reforms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGAL ASPECT; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN DONOR; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 54549092052     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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22. In addition, there is the obligation to protect (the second level of obligations on states parties) to adopt legislation or to take other measures ensuring equal access to health care. See General Comment no, 14, nr. 35,
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24. By the way, those who think health serves happiness are gravely mistaken about the nature of happiness.
25. Most - if not all - features of health care's specific morality can be explained by referring to health's moral nature. 'Justice' has a specific meaning in health care, but the same is true for 'solidarity', as reflection on the rules appropriate to the financing of health care. See M. Buijsen, 'De betekenis van solidariteit in de gezondheidszorg', in Martin Buij sen et at. (eds.) Marktwerking v. Solidariteit. Op zoek naar nieuwe evenwichten in de publieke dienstverlening, Nijmegen 2007.