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Targeting "Lifestyle" Conditions: What Justifications for Treatment?
Das Targeting von "Lifestyle"-Bedingungen: Welche Rechtfertigungen für die Behandlung?
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Abstract Patients suffering from "lifestyle" conditions are most often viewed as responsible for their illness, and so not considered to be a priority for healthcare resources. Instead, their treatment is financed on instrumental grounds: it is better to treat the condition now than to incur higher costs lat... mehr
Patients suffering from "lifestyle" conditions are most often viewed as responsible for their illness, and so not considered to be a priority for healthcare resources. Instead, their treatment is financed on instrumental grounds: it is better to treat the condition now than to incur higher costs later of not doing so. An alternative register of justification at work in public healthcare policies is not motivated by instrumental considerations. Instead, it seeks to articulate an ethical case for prioritizing lifestyle conditions. Within this framework, we draw on the notion of vital need within the tradition of humanistic philosophy to argue that solidarity justifies the treatment of such conditions, exemplified here by obesity. We use the theoretical framework of economics of convention to present these two registers of justification at work in public healthcare policies. The importance of humanistic criticism prevents instrumental logic from being completely dominant.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Gesundheitsverhalten; Gesundheitsversorgung; Gesundheitspolitik; Legitimation; Public Health; Selbstverantwortung
Klassifikation
Gesundheitspolitik
Medizinsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Economics of convention; orders of worth; obesity; vital need; targeting; healthcare policies; lifestyle conditions
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 59-84
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 1
Heftthema
Conventions, Health and Society - Convention Theory as an Institutionalist Approach to the Political Economy of Health
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)