The sufficiency theory of justice and the allocation of health resources.

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  • Author(s): Timmer D;Timmer D
  • Source:
    Bioethics [Bioethics] 2024 Nov; Vol. 38 (9), pp. 796-802. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 30.
  • Publication Type:
    Journal Article
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8704792 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1467-8519 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02699702 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Bioethics Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell
      Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Basil Blackwell, c1987-
    • Subject Terms:
      Social Justice* ; Health Care Rationing*/ethics; Humans ; Health Services Accessibility/ethics ; Health Services Needs and Demand/ethics ; Resource Allocation/ethics ; Health Resources/ethics ; Health Priorities/ethics ; Ethical Theory
    • Abstract:
      According to the sufficiency theory of justice in health, justice requires that people have equal access to adequate health. In this article, I lay out the structure of this view and I assess its distributive implications for setting priority (i) between health needs across persons and (ii) between health care spending and other societal goods. I argue, first, that according to the sufficiency theory, deficiency in health cannot be completely offset by providing other societal goods. And, second, that it can prevent the medicalization of societies by stressing that improvements beyond the level of adequate health have relatively little weight, if any, from the standpoint of justice.
      (© 2024 The Author(s). Bioethics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: distributive justice; health; health care; sufficientarianism; threshold
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240731 Date Completed: 20241017 Latest Revision: 20241017
    • Publication Date:
      20241017
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/bioe.13338
    • Accession Number:
      39081087