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    Theories focused solely on health provide lexical priorit... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Theories that treat health as interconnected with other valued human states imply a wider range of relevant outcomes for public health ethics than theories focused only on health

    Theories focused solely on health provide lexical priority that enables determinate action under conditions of resource scarcity.

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    • 1.Health is a prerequisite for pursuing all other values; without it, persons cannot exercise agency or achieve other goals.
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    • 2.Health-focused frameworks provide clear, measurable criteria (mortality, morbidity) for allocation decisions when resources are finite.
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    • 3.Prioritizing health prevents the collapse of social systems that depends on a functioning population to maintain other goods.
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    • 1.Education, dignity, and autonomy are also prerequisites for human flourishing and cannot be reduced to instrumental means to health.
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    • 2.Health-only frameworks ignore distributive justice concerns: maximizing health may worsen inequality between groups with different baseline health.
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    • 3.Persons reasonably value some non-health goods (meaningful work, community, self-determination) as intrinsic, not merely instrumentally.
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