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What is a just way of spending public resources for health and health care? Several significant answers to this question are under debate. Public spending could aim to promote greater equality in health, for example, or maximize the health of the population, or provide the worst off with the best possible health. Another approach is to aim for each person to have "enough" so that her health or access to health care does not fall under a critical level. This latter
approach is called sufficientarian.

Sufficientarian approaches to distributive justice are intuitively appealing, but require further analysis and assessment. What exactly is sufficiency? Why do we need it? What does it imply for the just distribution of health or healthcare? This volume offers fresh perspectives on these critical questions. Philosophers, bioethicists, health policy-makers, and health economists investigate sufficiency and its application to health and health care in fifteen original contributions.

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Contributors

Introduction
Carina Fourie and Annette Rid

Part 1 - Groundwork

1. The Sufficiency View: A Primer
Carina Fourie

2. Sufficiency, Health and Health Care Justice: The State of the Debate
Annette Rid

Part 2 - The Sufficiency View

3. Axiological Sufficientarianism
Iwao Hirose

4. Sufficiency, Priority, and Aggregation
Robert Huseby

5. Some Questions (and Answers) for Sufficientarians
Liam Shields

6. Essentially Enough: Elements of a Plausible Account of Sufficientarianism
David V. Axelsen and Lasse Nielsen

Part 3 - Sufficiency, health and health care justice
7. Intergenerational Justice, Sufficiency and Health
Axel Gosseries

8. Basic Human Functional Capabilities as the Currency of Sufficientarian Distribution in Healthcare
Efrat Ram-Tiktin

9. Disability, Disease, and Health Sufficiency
Sean Aas and David Wasserman

10. Sufficiency of Capabilities, Social Equality and Two-Tiered Health Care Systems
Carina Fourie

11. Determining a Basic Minimum of Accessible Health Care: A Comparative Assessment of the Well-being Sufficiency Approach
Paul T. Menzel

12. Just Caring: The Insufficiency of the Sufficiency Principle in Health Care
Leonard M. Fleck

Part 4 - Implementing Sufficiency in Health Care Policy and Economics

13. Defining Health Care Benefit Packages: How Sufficientarian is Current Practice?
Dimitra Panteli and Ewout van Ginneken

14. Sufficiency, Comprehensiveness of Healthcare Coverage and Cost-Sharing Arrangements in the Realpolitik of Health Policy
Govind Persad and Harald Schmidt

15. Applying the Capability Approach in Health Economic Evaluations: A Sufficient Solution
Paul Mark Mitchell, Tracy E. Roberts, Pelham M. Barton and Joanna Coast

Index

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