Healthcare Justice in the Context of COVID-19: A Bioethical Reading from Norman Daniels’ Fair Equality of Opportunity
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https://doi.org/10.14422/rib.i14.y2020.008Keywords:
health resources, COVID-19, healthcare, public health, distributive justiceAbstract
Based on Norman Daniels’ interpretation of healthcare as a requirement for the normal functioning of the human species, we analyse healthcare rationing by applying it to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique, a healthcare system that has scant resources. The fight against Sars-cov-2 has led to neglecting diseases that constitute a public health problem. This forces us to reflect on distributive justice within the context of healthcare.
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