PH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Morality, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Birth Weight
23 Jan 2018
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The early history of u. s. public health was closely tied to social reform movements. In addition to sanitary science and public hygiene, 19th-century reformers campaigned for improved housing, trade unions, the abolition of child labor, maternal and child health, and temperance. Market justice: an ideology that emphasizes individual responsibility, minimal obligation to the common good, and the fundamental freedom to all individuals to be left alone. Under market justice, powerful forces of environment, heredity, and social structure prevent a fair distribution of the burdens and benefits of society. Social justice, on the other hand, suggests that minimal levels of income, basic housing, employment, education, and health care should be seen as fundamental rights. Political conservatives would prefer to limit public health to a technical enterprise focused on controlling communicable disease or as a safety net that provides medical care to the poor.
