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    Health is a matter of justice, since each individual has ... — Carmelics
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    Health is a matter of justice, since each individual has an entitlement to health.

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    • 1.Individuals have a human right to health.
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    • 2.Human rights claims make the subject of those rights a matter of justice.
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    • 3.A matter of justice entails that individuals have entitlements to it.
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    • 1.Health outcomes are substantially determined by genetics, behavior, and chance factors that lie beyond the scope of redistributive justice.
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    • 2.Justice governs the distribution of social goods produced through human cooperation, not natural biological conditions.
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    • 3.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that justice concerns fair procedures in acquisition and transfer, not the equalization of naturally distributed conditions.
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    • 1.Rights generate correlative duties, but no identifiable duty-bearer can be obligated to deliver health as a biological state to another person.
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    • 2.A claimed entitlement that cannot be assigned a corresponding enforceable obligation is a manifesto right, not a genuine justice claim.
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    Yet another approach to articulating the value of health, and thus of public health, is found in the health and human rights literature (see Mann et al. 1994; Mann 1996; Beyrer et al. 2007; Beyrer and Pizer 2007; Tasioulas and Vayena 2015a; Tasioulas and Vayena 2015b; Gostin and Friedman 2013). In the early 1990s, Jonathan Mann pioneered an approach to public health that explicitly framed health as a human rights issue, and human rights violations as public health issues. Subsequent work in the
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