Politics and social justice

Question 1

Consituency-based health movements

Answer 1

Focus on health inequalities among groups and may be based on structures of identification (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender)

Question 2

Embodied health movements

Answer 2

Focus on the experience of disease and illness, addressing etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention

Question 3

Fair equality of opportunity

Answer 3

Society is obligated to provide the a general fair opportunity to rights and liberties in order to be a fully cooperating healthy member of society

Question 4

Health activism

Answer 4

When marginalized group believes it’s necessary to confront systemic inequities in distribution of power and resources related to health

Question 5

Health advocacy

Answer 5

Concentrates on education and functions within existing systems and the biomedical paradigm

Question 6

Health citizenship

Answer 6

Requires citizens to become actively involved in individual and collective decision-making

Question 7

Health access movements

Answer 7

Focus on equitable access to medical care and improved provision of health care services

Question 8

Interest groups

Answer 8

Arise from a sense of shared identity and use a variety of tactics to pursue their members’ agendas

Question 9

Justice in acquisition

Answer 9

Property may be acquired, as long as it’s previously unowned (theft, coercion, fraud = unacceptable)

Question 10

Justice in transfer

Answer 10

Property may be transferred, as long as no theft, force or fraud happen in transfer of property

Question 11

Libertarianism

Answer 11

Emphasizes individual rights and argues for minimal state intervention into lives of individuals

Question 12

Marxism

Answer 12

• Centred on idea that socio-economic divisions within society drive its evolution
• All members of society should have access to basic living needs

Question 13

Mobilization

Answer 13

New organizations appear and new frameworks are created

Question 14

Politicization of health

Answer 14

Politicians capitalize from emphasizing health issues for personal benefit (e.g. politically, financially)

Question 15

Rawlsian theory of social justice

Answer 15

• Created by John Rawls (1971)
• Concept of “social contract” in which individuals define their own concept of a just society (distribute wealth and power equally among citizens)

Question 16

Social movement

Answer 16

Groups of individuals mobilized around a common cause

Question 17

Subsistence rights

Answer 17

• Core of Marxist social justice
• Right to material needs to maintain life (e.g. nourishment, shelter, clothing and medical care)

Question 18

Utilitarianism

Answer 18

Political theory stating that all relationships are voluntary and so the distribution of goods and services should do the most good for the greatest number of people