Justice In Healthcare

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Justice is being fair, impartial, honest, and treating each individual equally. Additionally, justice is ensuring access, benefits, and opportunities are available equally to all individuals. Justice should be applied to every situation in one’s life. In doing so, one can ensure the best possible actions were taken in treating individuals impartially, honestly, equally, and fairly. Uninsured Patients Applying justice to healthcare is tricky. First, one needs to determine if healthcare is a fundamental right. Many people believe that it is not a basic human right since it is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. However, the World Health Organization states that access to good quality healthcare …show more content…

Psychological depression, physical, social, and economical problems, as well as, dissatisfaction in life has been reported by employees, which have been laid off (Sobieralski & Nordstrom, 2012). Sobieralski & Nordstrom (2012) also note that survivors of layoffs may experience decreased productivity, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. Sobieralski & Nordstrom (2012) determine employees’ perceptions of layoffs are based on distributive justice, interactional justice, and procedural justice. Distributive justice involves whether severance packages, benefits, or outplacement services were provided to employees, which were laid off. Interactional justice focuses on whether the employee feels he/she was treated with dignity and respect, as well as how the layoff was communicated to the employee. Procedural justice deals with the perception of fairness of the process used to determine which employees would be laid off (Sobieralski & Nordstrom, 2012). The author of this paper has personal experience with this and while distributive and interactional justice might have been appropriate in her case, interactional justice was not and therefore she will not consider employment with that company in the future. While downsizing may be necessary, applying justice to how downsizing is handled can benefit the employees and the …show more content…

Healthcare managers are now accountable to profit-oriented boards. The accountability of healthcare involves corporate management, shareholders, and the investment community (Maddox, 1998 December). Ensuring the needs of stockholders to see an adequate profit share requires distributive justice. Maddox (1998 December) explains that distributive justice requires that all individuals are provided an equal opportunity to access scarce resources, which requires healthcare organizations and health plans to provide healthcare to each individual that is due. There is a careful balancing act in healthcare while trying to retain earnings and provide access to quality care for all

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