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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 that treat health as interconnected with all valued states risk collapsing public health ethics into undifferentiated utilitarian welfare maximization, losing normative specificity.

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    Collapsing into(as describing what these weaker systems avoid)
    Becoming the same as or reducing to something simpler; in this case, the alternative systems don't just become regular probability.
    Normative specificity(as used in ethics)
    The quality of having clear, detailed rules or standards about what *should* be done, rather than vague general principles that could mean anything.
    Public health ethics(as used in ethics)
    The branch of ethics that deals with what's right and wrong when making decisions that affect the health of entire communities or populations, not just individuals.
    Undifferentiated(describing how the physical arousal is the same regardless of emotion type)
    All basically the same or not noticeably different from each other.
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    (One of Sidgwick's three methods of ethics)
    The view that an individual self-evidently ought to aim at the maximum balance of happiness for all sentient beings present and future, whatever the cost to herself; also called Universalistic Hedonism
    Welfare maximization(as used in ethics)
    The goal of making people as happy, comfortable, or well-off as possible; in utilitarianism, this is the main measure of what's ethical.

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