A noted public health philosopher Dan E. Beauchamp addressed the role of public health in his paper entitled “Public Health as Social Justice”. Beauchamp calls on public health to challenge the ideology of market justice that prevails in the United States. Market justice emphasizes individual responsibility and the powerful forces of social structure, heredity and environment, which prevent a fair distribution of the burdens and benefits of society. Social justice, on the other hand, suggests that minimal levels of income, basic housing, employment, education, and health care should be seen as fundamental rights. I believe that the philosophy of social justice is preferable to the philosophy of market justice because evenhanded distribution
