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What is public health? public goods, publicized goods, and the conversion problem
Public Choice ( IF 1.780 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s11127-021-00908-8
Jonathan Anomaly 1
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Public health programs began as an attempt to fight infectious diseases that are difficult to address without collective action. But the concept and practice of public health has ballooned to encompass an expanding list of controversial public policy goals ranging from reducing obesity to raising self-esteem. As the list of controversial goals expands, support for “public health” measures contracts. I’ll briefly defend the view that we should define public health as the provision of health-related public goods. I’ll then show that being a health-related public good is not a sufficient condition for counting as a public health goal, since virtually any private good can be converted into a public good by government fiat. This is the conversion problem, which challenges the way we ordinarily think about public goods and public health.



中文翻译:

什么是公共卫生?公共物品、公共物品和转换问题

公共卫生计划最初是为了抗击如果不采取集体行动就难以解决的传染病。但是,公共卫生的概念和实践已经膨胀到包括越来越多的有争议的公共政策目标,从减少肥胖到提高自尊。随着有争议的目标清单的增加,对“公共卫生”措施的支持减少了。我将简要地捍卫我们应该将公共卫生定义为提供与健康相关的公共产品的观点。然后我将证明,作为与健康相关的公共物品并不是算作公共卫生目标的充分条件,因为几乎任何私人物品都可以通过政府指令转化为公共物品。这就是转换问题,它挑战了我们通常思考公共产品和公共卫生的方式。

更新日期:2021-06-03
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