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COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles
COVID-19-related controversies concerning the allocation of scarce resources, travel restrictions, and physical distancing norms each raise a foundational question: How should authority, and thus responsibility, over healthcare and public health law and policy be allocated? Each controversy raises p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7360936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32507121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180120000468 |
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description | COVID-19-related controversies concerning the allocation of scarce resources, travel restrictions, and physical distancing norms each raise a foundational question: How should authority, and thus responsibility, over healthcare and public health law and policy be allocated? Each controversy raises principles that support claims by traditional wielders of authority in “federal” countries, like federal and state governments, and less traditional entities, like cities and sub-state nations. No existing principle divides “healthcare and public law and policy” into units that can be allocated in intuitively compelling ways. This leads to puzzles concerning (a) the principles for justifiably allocating “powers” in these domains and (b) whether and how they change during “emergencies.” This work motivates the puzzles, explains why resolving them should be part of long-term responses to COVID-19, and outlines some initial COVID-19-related findings that shed light on justifiable authority allocation, emergencies, emergency powers, and the relationships between them. |
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spelling | pubmed-73609362020-07-15 COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles DA SILVA, MICHAEL Camb Q Healthc Ethics Research Article COVID-19-related controversies concerning the allocation of scarce resources, travel restrictions, and physical distancing norms each raise a foundational question: How should authority, and thus responsibility, over healthcare and public health law and policy be allocated? Each controversy raises principles that support claims by traditional wielders of authority in “federal” countries, like federal and state governments, and less traditional entities, like cities and sub-state nations. No existing principle divides “healthcare and public law and policy” into units that can be allocated in intuitively compelling ways. This leads to puzzles concerning (a) the principles for justifiably allocating “powers” in these domains and (b) whether and how they change during “emergencies.” This work motivates the puzzles, explains why resolving them should be part of long-term responses to COVID-19, and outlines some initial COVID-19-related findings that shed light on justifiable authority allocation, emergencies, emergency powers, and the relationships between them. Cambridge University Press 2020-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7360936/ /pubmed/32507121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180120000468 Text en © Cambridge University Press 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article DA SILVA, MICHAEL COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles |
title | COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles |
title_full | COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles |
title_short | COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles |
title_sort | covid-19 and health-related authority allocation puzzles |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7360936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32507121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180120000468 |
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