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Faith-based health justice: what are the options?

In: Handbook on Religion and Health

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  • Ville Päivänsalo

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The chapter begins with the broad question of how to advance faith-based approaches to health justly, presuming people of faith who work or volunteer for the improvement of health and well-being across contexts. Many of the justice-issues here are about the observed benefits or harms of the faith-component involved, others concern more the collaboration models that integrate the faith-based or faith-inspired non-governmental sector to the public sector schemes. Between the options of “justice as impartiality” and the “specificity of the faith-based sector,” the author argues for a “justice with understanding” option that integrates formal equality into a contextually rooted approach. Eventually, through a critical and benevolent analysis of cases in a range of contexts, he comes up with ten more specific options for the just advancement of health, showing also how reasonable balancing among the contextually most relevant of them can point out hopeful avenues for the future.

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  • Ville Päivänsalo, 2024. "Faith-based health justice: what are the options?," Chapters, in: James R. Cochrane & Gary R. Gunderson & Teresa Cutts (ed.), Handbook on Religion and Health, chapter 16, pages 264-278, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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