Importance:
1. Do or promote good.
2. Prevent harm or evil.
3. Dont inflict evil or harm.
4. Remove evil or harm.
DifferentTypes Of Justice:
1. Legal Justice
2. Commutative Justice
3. Distributive Justice - duties of the state to the citizens as
clearly stated in the Constitution. Focuses on distribution of
goods and services.
CATEGORIES OF JUSTICE
* Formal Principle of Justice:
Equals ought to be treated equally and unequals
may be treated unequally;
* Material Principle of Justice:
Identifies a relevant property, such as need,
effort or merit as the basis of which, burdens
and benefits should be distributed and excludes
other properties as irrelevant.
THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE IN THE ALLOCATION OF
HEALTH CARE RESOURCES
Concepts of Justice:
* Justice as retribution or punishment
* Justice as fairness, and in particular fair distribution.
For health care - justice refers to fair distribution of goods
and services DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
Health Care resources - always limited.
whatever are available must be fairly and rationally allocated
to benefit as many people as they would as possible
Allocation - must not be discriminated as to benefit only a few,
not the rich and powerful but
the poorest of the poor.
THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE IN THE ALLOCATION OF
HEALTH CARE RESOURCES
Questions to be asked:
* Is health care a right or a privileged?
* Should all people have access to the same health
care services regardless of ability to pay?
* How should ability to pay influence access to health
care services?
* Should the Government be responsible for the health
care needs of all citizens?
* If health care is a right and health care resources are
scarce, what resources are allocated to which group
of people?
THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE IN THE ALLOCATION OF
HEALTH CARE RESOURCES
To each equally;
To each according to need;
To each according to merit;
To each according to social contribution;
To each according to the persons rights;
To each according to individual effort;
To each as you would be done by;
To each according to the greatest good to
the greatest number.
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
ALLOCATION
To allocate is to distribute resources among
alternative uses.
Health care resources are always limited. Thus,
whatever are available must be fairly and rationally
allocated so that they can benefit as many people as
they would as possible, rather than allowing a few to
enjoy them.
PARADIGMS OR THEORIES OF JUSTICEIN THE ALLOCATION
OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES
1. Utilitarian Model
2. Libertarian Model
3. Commutarian Model
4. Egalitarian Model
5. Distributive Model
6. Social Justice Model
7. Pragmatic or Popular Model
8. Natural Law Model
PARADIGMS OF JUSTICE or THEORIES OF JUSTICE IN THE ALLOCATION OF HEALTH
CARE RESOURCES