Justice and public health

Students should be able to:
• Analyse principles and criteria for just and sustainable access to, and provision of, finite healthcare resources including referral, investigations and treatment

• Discuss the ethical and legal issues involved in balancing different stakeholder interests in the distribution of healthcare resources

• Discuss local, national and global priorities in relation to clinical decisions and policy

• Evaluate the potentially conflicting roles of the doctor in promoting health, acting as an advocate for individual patients, and tackling health inequalities

• Explore the ethical issues surrounding the notion that individual patients are responsible for their own health, and consider the impact of the social determinants of health