Toward Establishing a Universal Basic Health Norm

Ethics and International Affairs 18 (3):65-78 (2004)
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"In this article, I argue that under current resource constraints, institutional arrangements seeking to ensure commonly accepted egalitarian goals would engender the decrease of health status of many who do not currently enjoy particularly high levels of health."

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10.1111/j.1747-7093.2004.tb00477.x

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