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Justice, rights and health care: a discussion of the report of the commission on social justice

Hugh V. McLachlan (Department of Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University)

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

ISSN: 0144-333X

Article publication date: 1 December 1998

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Abstract

Raises some questions on moral and legal rights to health care, referring to various claims contained within the report of the UK’s Commission on Social Justice – “Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal” (1994). Explores the relationship between needs and rights – rights of action and rights of recipience, moral rights and legal rights. Proceeds to delve into the role the state plays in providing services such as health care and whether or not people have a moral right to good health and good health care. Questions if the state should provide health care and, if so, should it be provided as a legal right to citizens? Concludes that the Commission on Social Justice fails to defend the National Health Service on the grounds of justice and moral rights.

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McLachlan, H.V. (1998), "Justice, rights and health care: a discussion of the report of the commission on social justice", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 18 No. 11/12, pp. 65-84. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443339810788588

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