PUBLIC health, BASIC needs, POPULATION research, HEALTH, HEALTH -- Social aspects
Beschreibung:
Public health sets out to promote or improve the health of the population. Where should it stop in such quest? This is the question I would like to explore in this essay. A promising theoretical account in setting a threshold to public health efforts is sufficientarianism. It determines a level of what is enough provision for people so that they have sufficiently good conditions to live a decent life. In this paper I argue for a sufficientarian notion of the purpose of the welfare state, which is given by the idea of inclusion of all citizens into society, and include public health under this remit. Public health according to this account aims at steering the social determinants of health so that everyone can be able to feel as a member of a society. Finally, I develop the outlines of a framework of health-related basic needs. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]