Luck Egalitarianism, Individual Responsibility and Health

Ekmekci P. E., ARDA B.

BALKAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.32, sa.3, ss.244-254, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 32 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5152/balkanmedj.2015.150012
  • Dergi Adı: BALKAN MEDICAL JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.244-254
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Distributive justice, fundamental causal theory, group norms, health inequalities, individual responsibility, luck egalitarianism, medical ethics, social determinants of health, FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Luck Egalitarianism has frequently been discussed in the recent literature because of the potential impact of this theory on health financing. Luck Egalitarianism puts forth a theory of distributive justice which says that the fundamental aim of equality is to compensate people for undeserved bad luck such as being born with poor native endowments, having difficult family circumstances or suffering from accidents and illness. On the other hand, if individuals face ill health because of faults of their own, then society has no duty to supply health services to them.