The concept of lifestyle-related diseases and individual responsibility for health has played
an important role in debates on the fair allocation of increasingly scarce health-care …

The recent increased prevalence of diseases related to unhealthy lifestyles raises difficulties
for healthcare insurance systems traditionally based on the principles of risk-management …

Lifestyle diseases constitute an increasing proportion of health problems and this trend is
likely to continue. A better understanding of the responsibility argument is important for the …

The main aim of this paper is to examine the fairness of different ways of holding people
responsible for healthcare-related choices. Our focus is on conceptualisations of …

In recent debates about the distribution of healthcare resources, the notion of individual
responsibility for health has received an increasing amount of attention, in philosophical …

Some healthcare systems are said to be grounded in solidarity because healthcare is
funded as a form of mutual support. This article argues that health care systems that are …

Unhealthy lifestyle contributes significantly to the burden of disease. Scarce medical
resources that could alternatively be spent on interventions to prevent or cure sufferings for …

This article presents various developments in Dutch health care policy toward a greater role
for individual financial responsibility, such as cost-control measures, priority setting …

When it comes to determining how healthcare resources should be allocated, there are
many factors that could—and perhaps should—be taken into account. One such factor is a …

The concept of solidarity has recently come to prominence in the healthcare literature,
addressing the motivation for taking seriously the shared vulnerabilities and medical needs …