1st Edition

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice Towards New Paradigms for the Provision of Health Care Services?

By Danielle Da Costa Leite Borges Copyright 2017
243 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

243 Pages
by Routledge

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union. Using the concepts and principles embedded in the theories of egalitarianism and libertarianism, this book analyses the impact of the Internal Market rules on common... Read more

Introduction  1. Ideology in the Field of Health Care: A General Overview  2. National and European Approaches to Social Citizenship and Solidarity  3. The Provision of Health Services at the National Level: Models for the Financing and Delivery of Health Care, and their Guiding Principles  4. The Framework of Health Services Provision at the EU Level  5. Insights from Human Rights Law and Practice  6. The Eurpoean Approach to Health Care and the Development of New Values in the Provision of Health Services  Conclusion

Biography

Danielle da Costa Leite Borges is an Associate Professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.