Injustice and Inequality in Health and Health Care

I chose the title of this essay in part because of the balanced alliteration between “injustice” and “inequality” on the one hand and “health” and “health care” on the other. But the parallelisms of sound in this case mirror analogies in the relations. In each pair, the first member is the more important and more general. Injustice is of obvious moral importance. Inequality is one source of injustice, though inequalities are not always unjust, and inequalities may have other ethically significant consequences. Similarly, health is much more important than health care, though health care obviously contributes to health and may have other morally significant effects on well-being and social solidarity.