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  2. Medical ethics - Wikipedia

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    Individualistic standards of autonomy and personal human rights as they relate to social justice seen in the Anglo-Saxon community, clash with and can also supplement the concept of solidarity, which stands closer to a European healthcare perspective focused on community, universal welfare, and the unselfish wish to provide healthcare equally ...

  3. Health equity - Wikipedia

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    The Institute of Medicine in the United States says fragmentation of the U.S. health care delivery and financing system is a barrier to accessing care. Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be enrolled in health insurance plans which place limits on covered services and offer a limited number of health care providers. [8]: 10

  4. Norman Daniels - Wikipedia

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    Just Health Care (Cambridge, 1985) Am I My Parents' Keeper? An Essay on Justice Between the Young and the Old (Oxford, 1988) Seeking Fair Treatment: From the AIDS Epidemic to National Health Care Reform (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press ...

  5. Ethics of care - Wikipedia

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    Noddings proposes that ethical caring could be a more concrete evaluative model of moral dilemma, than an ethic of justice. [21] Noddings' care-focused feminism requires practical application of relational ethics, predicated on an ethic of care. [22] Ethics of care is a basis for care-focused feminist theorizing on maternal ethics.

  6. Human right to health care - Wikipedia

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    That is, the traditional sense of individual health as understood and processed by health care services is "one essential condition for health", but does is not the sole qualifier or an exchangeable term with "health". In other words, health care services are not sufficient for health, as public health practitioners understand it – there are ...

  7. Philosophy of healthcare - Wikipedia

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    The philosophy of healthcare is the study of the ethics, processes, and people which constitute the maintenance of health for human beings. [citation needed] For the most part, however, the philosophy of healthcare is best approached as an indelible component of human social structures.

  8. Socialized medicine - Wikipedia

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    Health care professionals have tended to avoid the term because of its pejorative nature, but if they use it, they do not include publicly funded private medical schemes such as Medicaid. [3] [48] [49] Opponents of state involvement in health care tend to use the looser definition. [50] The term is widely used by the American media and pressure ...

  9. Patients' rights - Wikipedia

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    These principles play an essential role in guiding medical decisions, helping healthcare providers care for the well-being of patients while maintaining their decision-making capacity, thus achieving a fundamental balance between medical ethics and the commitment of health professionals to patients [18]