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