Communities of Health Care Justice (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

As facções que debatem a reforma do sistema de saúde nos Estados Unidos gravitaram em torno de uma de duas posições: que apenas a saúde é uma responsabilidade individual ou que deve ser considerada uma preocupação nacional. Ambos os argumentos ignoram uma terceira possibilidade: que a justiça na assistência à saúde é multifacetada e requer a participação de comunidades múltiplas e diversas. Comunidades de Saúde Justiça makes a powerful ethical argument for treating communities as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Drawing together the key community dimensions of health care, and demonstrating their neglect in most prominent theories of health care justice, Charlene Galarneau postulates the ethical norms of community justice. In the process, she proposes that while the subnational communities of health care justice are defined by shared place, including those bound by culture, religion, gender, and race that together they define justice. As she constructs her innovative theorization of health care justice, Galarneau also reveals its firm grounding in the work of real-world health policy and community advocates. Communities of Health Care Justicenão apenas se esforça para imaginar uma nova estrutura de cuidados de saúde justos, mas também para mostrar como elementos dessa estrutura existem na política de saúde atual e delinear as mudanças sistêmicas, conceituais e estruturais necessárias para colocar essas normas de justiça em prática mais plena. "The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health care is multilayered and requires the participation of multiple and diverse communities.Communities of Health Care Justice makes a powerful ethical argument for treating communities as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Drawing together the key community dimensions of health care, and demonstrating their neglect in most prominent theories of health care justice, Charlene Galarneau postulates the ethical norms of community justice. In the process, she proposes that while the subnational communities of health care justice are defined by shared place, including those bound by culture, religion, gender, and race that together they define justice.As she constructs her innovative theorization of health care justice, Galarneau also reveals its firm grounding in the work of real-world health policy and community advocates. Communities of Health Care Justice not only strives to imagine a new framework of just health care, but also to show how elements of this framework exist in current health policy, and to outline the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to put these justice norms into fuller practice."--Back cover The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health care is multilayered and requires the participation of multiple and diverse communities. Communities of Health Care Justice makes a powerful ethical argument for treating communities as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Drawing together the key community dimensions of health care, and demonstrating their neglect in most prominent theories of health care justice, Charlene Galarneau postulates the ethical norms of community justice. In the process, she proposes that while the subnational communities of health care justice are defined by shared place, including those bound by culture, religion, gender, and race that together they define justice. As she constructs her innovative theorization of health care justice, Galarneau also reveals its firm grounding in the work of real-world health policy and community advocates. Communities of Health Care Justice not only strives to imagine a new framework of just health care, but also to show how elements of this framework exist in current health policy, and to outline the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to put these justice norms into fuller practice. U.s. Health Care Has Often Been Conceived As A Social Good, And More Specifically As A National Good. Communities Of Health Care Justice Presents An Alternate Model, Making A Powerful Ethical Argument For Why Smaller Communities--bound Together By Culture, Religion, Gender, Race, And Place--should Be Regarded As Critical Moral Actors That Play Key Roles In Defining And Upholding Just Health Policy. Furthermore, It Outlines The Systemic, Conceptual, And Structural Changes Required To Move Toward This Health Care Justice.