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How to support equal standing in local health equity?
- Source :
- Bioethics, 36(5), 597-604, Bioethics 36 (2022) 5
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Attempts to decrease socioeconomic health disparities face various challenges, which include ethical questions about prioritization and value-conflicts. To deal with these questions in a way that takes equal standing as a central value, this paper explores the potential of a relational egalitarian capability approach to local health equity policies. Especially for local health equity policies, a relational egalitarian capability approach seems promising as it offers more perspectives for action and evaluation additional to considerations of distributive justice. To scrutinize if this approach can offer an adequate normative basis for health equity policies and be a helpful ethical guide in practice, five desiderata are identified that a relational egalitarian capability approach to local health equity should fulfil. These desiderata stem from a consideration of political-ethical pluralism and scarcity of time and resources as non-ideal conditions characterizing public policy practice, as well as of three questions that any capability approach should answer to be applicable in practice. For each of the five desiderata, a brief outline is given of what relational egalitarian theories and the capability approach offer in response to the questions implied by these desiderata. Ultimately, these questions need to be answered in relation to specific policies in particular contexts.
- Subjects :
- Value (ethics)
Health (social science)
Health Equity
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Health Policy
Public policy
Public Policy
health equity policy
Health equity
Filosofie
Scarcity
Philosophy
Pluralism (political theory)
Social Justice
Capability approach
relational equality
Normative
Humans
capabilities
Sociology
Positive economics
Distributive justice
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02699702
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bioethics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a451f7cdde6cf0150105fe20f7ec65e2