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http://www.itinerainstitute.org/en/library/itinera-publications-presentations/_paper/health-care-lifestyle-and-individual-responsibility/
Health Care, lifestyle and individual responsibility
20 March 2009
Ignaas Devisch
In many countries a healthy lifestyle is expected to become a criterion in obtaining healthcare services. As we understand lifestyle as a merely individual matter, what could be the consequences for health care if individual responsibility would be a key principle in allocating health care services? We will illustrate the ethical and philosophical relevance of this question with the case of obesity.
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