principles is limited and not always encouraging; research is under way on how to implement and "validate" them The idea that it might be useful to develop ethical principles for everybody involved in health care stemmed from the recognition that much of health care is multidisciplinary yet ...
In order to avoid any misunderstandings, I am talking about principles of need in health care, i.e., substantial ideas on how health care ought to be prioritized and not the concept of health care need, i.e., what it means to say that someone(s) have a need for health care (althoug...
In the context of health care, if there are only three life-saving machines and four people in need of them, one has to be left without [1]. Scarcities of the second type are especially interesting from the viewpoints of ethics and political morality, because choices have to be made when...
Equal access to social goods is one of the most fundamental principles of social justice. This holds that society's resources should be equally available to all. For example, many social justice theorists believe that people should have equal access to education, health care, and employment opport...
Coping ageing population and long term care in European countries: Ethical considerations on justice in health care with regard to digitalisation, health c... Studies forecast the growth of the older population of the European Union (EU) as well as an associated increase in the need for health...
Inequalities in health have long been recognized as interconnected with social, economic, and various other inequalities. The application of social justice and equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI) frameworks may help expand interdisciplinary perspectives i
have begun organizing to support the implementation of GND principles in higher education; these efforts have included declaring a climate emergency and practicing ethical investment, in higher education: a GND for Universities (University and College Union2021). These efforts lay the foundation for exp...
The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed geographic inequalities in healthcare access and vaccine distribution. At the same time, grassroots social movements such as Black Lives Matter highlighted systemic racism rooted in colonial and neo-colonial perceptions. These played a significant role in the collect...
. Political and economic reforms in Central Asia have also been highly gendered. Women were not only more affected by declining public infrastructure such as public schools, health care and social services (Thieme2014a,b), but also increasingly migrated in search of work (Thieme2014c). In so ...
health and legal literacy. Both rights and challenges are approached from a social justice perspective with the aim of identifying opportunities to promote greater health equity. That is, to go beyond the legal dictates enshrined in principles ofequality, and target as an ethical imperative a ...