The Pluralist Right to Health Care
The Pluralist Right to Health Care

Author: Michael DaSilva

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1487538839

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Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not fit easily into the traditional "claim right" model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. The Pluralist Right to Health Care addresses this incongruity between theory and practice with an account of the right to health care that is both philosophically and practically sound. Utilizing a pluralist framework, Michael Da Silva argues that the right to health care is best understood as a set of claims to related ends: the goods necessary for a dignified existence, procedural fairness in determining what other goods to provide and in the provision of goods, and a functioning health care system. Through philosophical reasoning, analysis of relevant international human rights law, and a close study of the Canadian case, The Pluralist Right to Health Care provides crucial insight into the potential of law and policy to improve health care systems in Canada and beyond.

The Pluralist Right to Health Care
The Pluralist Right to Health Care

Author: Michael Da Silva

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781487538828

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"Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not easily fit the traditional "claim right" model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. The Pluralist Right to Health Care addresses this break between theory and practice with an account of the right to health care that is philosophically and practically sound. Utilizing a pluralist framework, Michael Da Silva argues that the right to health care is best understood as a set of claims to related ends: the goods necessary for a dignified existence, procedural fairness in determining what other goods to provide and in the provision of goods, and a functioning health care system. Through philosophical reasoning, analysis of relevant international human rights law, and a close study of the Canadian case, The Pluralist Right to Health Care provides crucial insight into the potential of law and policy to improve health care systems in Canada and beyond."--

Health Care
Health Care

Author: Corinne Naden

Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

Published: 2010-01-15

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0761445390

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Addresses questions about health care in the United States, discussing who provides, pays for, and regulates health care, the problems of inefficiency and inequity, and related political issues, and looking at health care services around the world.

Rights to Health Care
Rights to Health Care

Author: Thomas J. Bole III

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-08-23

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0585282951

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Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time, and abilities of others. The temptation to use the languages of rights and of justice is und- standable. Faced with pain, disability, and death, it seems natural to complain that "someone should do something", "this is unfair", or "it just isn't fight that people should suffer this way". Yet it is one thing to complain about the unfairness of another's actions, and another thing to complain about the unfairness of biological or physical processes. If no one is to blame for one's illness, disability, or death, in what sense are one's unfortunate circumstances unfair or unjust? How can claims against others for aid and support arise if no one has caused the unfortunate state of affairs? To justify the languages of fights to health care or justice in health care requires showing why particular unfortunate circumstances are also unfair, in the sense of demanding the labors of others. It requires understanding as well the limits of property claims. After all, claims regarding justice in health care or about fights to health care limit the property fights of those whose resources will be used to provide care.

The Human Right to Health
The Human Right to Health

Author: Eduardo Arenas Catalán

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1788979656

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This timely book offers a fresh perspective on how to effectively address the issue of unequal access to healthcare. It analyses the human right to health from the underexplored legal principle of solidarity, proposing a non-commercial understanding of the positive obligations inherent in the right to health.

The Right to Health
The Right to Health

Author: Gunilla Backman

Publisher: Studentlitteratur AB

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9789144067803

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This guide, written for and by health and human rights students and professionals, aims to present the foundations of public health and human rights with a specific focus on health. Cases from developed and developing countries are used to show how different fields -- health, ethics, law and the right to health, broadly defined -- interact or can interact with one another to improve health outcomes. It also presents right to health tools and how to apply them. "The first of its kind, this book bridges health and human rights in theory and practice, bringing together leading experts to explore and demonstrate how the right to health can be and has been operationalised in practice..." Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.

Mortal Peril
Mortal Peril

Author: Richard A. Epstein

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 1997-03-24

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13:

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A leading legal scholar argues provocatively against universal health care, while providing a set of principles for a sharply restricted government role in medicine. Like all of Epstein's works, "Mortal Peril" is sure to create controversy.

Universal Health Care
Universal Health Care

Author: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2018-07-15

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1534503161

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With the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010, the United States seemed closer than ever to achieving universal health care. However, repealing the act has been a key goal for the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress, with the main arguments against it including the higher premiums for middle-class Americans and the abuse of government power through its control of the insurance industry. This volume helps define universal health care, explains the arguments for and against it, and discusses attempts to implement it on an international scale.

Justice and Health Care
Justice and Health Care

Author: Allen Buchanan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-11-05

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0190453141

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In this volume Allen Buchanan collects ten of his most influential essays on justice and healthcare and connects the concerns of bioethicists with those of political philosophers, focusing not just on the question of which principles of justice in healthcare ought to be implemented, but also on the question of the legitimacy of institutions through which they are implemented. With an emphasis on the institutional implementation of justice in healthcare, Buchanan pays special attention to the relationship between moral commitments and incentives. The volume begins with an exploration of the difficulties of specifying the content of the right to healthcare and of identifying those agents and institutions that are obligated to help ensure that the right thus specified is realized, and then progresses to an examination of the problems that arise in attempts to implement the right through appropriate institutions. In the last two essays Buchanan pursues the central issues of justice in healthcare at the global level, exploring the idea of healthcare as a human right and the problem of assigning responsibilities for ameliorating global health disparities. Taken together, the essays provide a unique and consistent position on a wide range of issues, including conflicts of interest in clinical practice and the claims of medical professionalism, the nature and justification for the right to health care, the relationship between responsibility for healthcare and the nature of the healthcare system, and the problem of global health disparities. The result is an approach to justice in healthcare that will facilitate more productive interaction between the normative analysis of philosophers and the policy work of economists, lawyers, and political scientists.

Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform

Author: Audrey R. Chapman

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1994-05-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781589018167

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Arguing that health care should be a human right rather than a commodity, the distinguished contributors to this volume call for a new social covenant establishing a right to a standard of health care consistent with society's level of resources. By linking rights with limits, they offer a framework for seeking national consensus on a cost-conscious standard of universal medical care. The authors identify the policy implications of recognizing and implementing such a right and develop specific criteria to measure the success of health care reform from a human rights perspective. Health Care Reform also offers specific and timely criticism of managed competition and its offspring, the Clinton plan for health care reform. Because health care reform will inevitably be an ongoing process of assessment and revision—especially since managed competition has not been implemented elsewhere—this book will last beyond the moment by providing vital standards to guide the future evolution of the health care system.