 Faith-based health justice: what are the options?Ville Päivänsalo Chapter 16 in Handbook on Religion and Health, 2024, pp 264-278 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: The chapter begins with the broad question of how to advance faith-based approaches to health justly, presuming people of faith who work or volunteer for the improvement of health and well-being across contexts. Many of the justice-issues here are about the observed benefits or harms of the faith-component involved, others concern more the collaboration models that integrate the faith-based or faith-inspired non-governmental sector to the public sector schemes. Between the options of “justice as impartiality” and the “specificity of the faith-based sector,” the author argues for a “justice with understanding” option that integrates formal equality into a contextually rooted approach. Eventually, through a critical and benevolent analysis of cases in a range of contexts, he comes up with ten more specific options for the just advancement of health, showing also how reasonable balancing among the contextually most relevant of them can point out hopeful avenues for the future. Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21310_16 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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