Social Solidarity in Health Care, American-Style

Brown, Erin C. Fuse; Lawrence, Matthew B.; McCuskey, Elizabeth Y.; Wiley, Lindsay F.

doi:10.1177/1073110520958864

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“…The contrast between European Nations and the US is often cited (Scholz 2008, p. 9) to argue that the US is a more individualistic society and its citizens less solidaristic (Fuse Brown, Lawrence, McCuskey, and Wiley 2020). By this reasoning, the welfare system, including its public health components, is less expansive in the US.…”

Section: Public Health As Public Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Solidarity and Public Health

Frías¹,

Thompson

2022

Med Health Care and Philos

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of public health", which "provide the high-level moral justification for public health work". Indeed, the Code is said to "derive from values and standards widely shared in the public health profession". Moreover, the understanding of health at the core of the Code is expansive, referring to "flourishing and well-being". By aiming at well-being and flourishing, public health is said to stand against "domination, inequity, discrimination, exploitation, exclusion, suffering, and despair", which suggests standing for social justice. Section 2 lists core public health values; the fourth of which is "interdependence and solidarity". The meaning of the term solidarity is not explicit in the comment on this value. Section 2 concludes by referring to public health's "own ideals and those of the broader society". However, the Code fails to specify whether the ideals are shared between the field and broader society, how the field should respond to the political context in which it finds itself, and how solidarity might be invoked to shed light on the relationship between the field and the broader society.Without clear specification, the use of the term solidarity, in public health and elsewhere, is equivocal, implying but not specifying a moral obligation of some sort, usually

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Section: Public Health As Public Policymentioning

confidence: 99%