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    It is not the case that 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

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    • 1.Expanding evaluative scope without priority rules produces irresolvable trade-offs that paralyze public health decision-making.
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    • 2.Theories focused solely on health provide lexical priority that enables determinate action under conditions of resource scarcity.
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    • 3.Norman Daniels argues that health's special moral importance derives precisely from its role as a prerequisite for fair opportunity, not from its interconnection with all valued states.
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    • 1.Wider evaluative scope conflates the proper domain of public health institutions with the domain of general social welfare policy.
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    • 2.Institutional role morality, as developed by Walzer in 'Spheres of Justice,' requires that health institutions maintain bounded mandates to preserve their distinctive legitimacy.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.If health is interconnected with other valued human states, then those other states become relevant outcomes for public health
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    • 2.Theories focused only on health exclude these broader outcomes from their evaluative scope
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