The Mismarriage of Personal Responsibility and Health

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ID21598517
AuthorsGreg Bognar (0000-0001-5606-3201, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume29
Issue2
Pages196-204
Publication date2020-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0963-1801 • E-ISSN: 1469-2147
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0963180119000999
PMID32159490
OpenAlexW3010844092
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

This paper begins with a simple illustration of the choice between individual and population strategies in population health policy. It describes the traditional approach on which the choice is to be made on the relative merits of the two strategies in each case. It continues by identifying two factors—our knowledge of the consequences of the epidemiological transition and the prevalence of responsibility-sensitive theories of distributive justice—that may distort our moral intuitions when we deliberate about the choice of appropriate risk-management strategies in population health. It argues that the confluence of these two factors may lead us to place too much emphasis on personal responsibility in health policy

Business · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Moral responsibility · Political science · Population · Positive economics · Public relations · Sociology · Health and Conflict Studies · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education · Social Psychology

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