2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2007.00270.x
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What's Wrong with Health Inequalities?*

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“…I shall have something to say about the enormous differences in health between rich and poor countries, and I shall briefly consider the relationship between income inequality and health. Following Hausman (2007), I treat health inequalities as important to the extent that they involve inequalities in overall well-being, and treat health inequalities as unjust when they are not compensated for by other components of well-being, and when they are remediable, but not remediated. At the end, I offer some brief conclusions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I shall have something to say about the enormous differences in health between rich and poor countries, and I shall briefly consider the relationship between income inequality and health. Following Hausman (2007), I treat health inequalities as important to the extent that they involve inequalities in overall well-being, and treat health inequalities as unjust when they are not compensated for by other components of well-being, and when they are remediable, but not remediated. At the end, I offer some brief conclusions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The fairness of the distribution of any one component of well-being is generally contingent on the distribution of the other componentsthus, the distribution of health, considered in isolation from other goods, is neither just nor unjust. This type of view has most explicitly been defended by Daniel Hausman (2013Hausman ( , 2007. 6 Hausman considers the appropriate focus is the distribution of overall well-being or life prospects (advantage), rather than the distribution of each single component of well-being, the appropriate focus of justice.…”
Section: Health As a Currency Of Justice In A Pluralist Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unntaket er mer ekstreme mangler på et gode. Jo mindre man har av et gitt gode, jo mer sannsynlig er det at denne mangelen kan oppveies av mer av et annet gode, og mangelen på dette ene godet vil dermed i større grad reflektere lav «overall» eller total velferd (se Hausman, 2007). Fordelingen av ett av disse godene isolert fra de andre godene, er ikke «i seg selv» rettferdig eller urettferdig.…”
Section: Hvorfor Er Helseforskjeller Urettferdige?unclassified