Market Justice vs Social Justice

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Market Justice vs Social Justice
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Health Equity

• The absence of unfair and avoidable or
  remediable differences in health among social
  groups ( The Commission )
• A value position supported by an evidence base
• There is and will be political opposition to the
  core value of health equity

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Health inequities are systemic, avoidable, unfair
and unjust differences in health status and
mortality rates and in the distribution of
disease and illness across population groups.
They are sustained over time and generations and
beyond the control of individuals
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Justice

• The quality of fairness
• The principle of moral rightness equity
• Conformity to moral rightness in action or
  attitude

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Social Justice

• The application of principles of justice to the
  broadest definition of society
• Implies
• Equity
• Equal access to societal power, goods and
  services
• Universal respect for human and civil rights

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Market Justice

• Emphasizes personal responsibility as the basis
  for distributing burdens and benefits
• Individuals assume prime responsibility for their
  own health
• Little expectation that society should act to
  protect or promote the health of its members
• Social Darwinism

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Social Justice

• Significant factors within society impede fair
  distribution of benefits and burdens
• Social class distinctions, heredity, racism,
  ethnism play significant roles
• Collective action necessary to neutralize or
  overcome forces