title: The Well-being Conception of Health and the Conflation Problem.
abstract: Human rights advocates often use inflated and thus underspecified terminologies when addressing the content of their claims. One example of such loose terminology is the term 'well-being', as currently employed in connection with a definition for the right to health. What I call the 'well-being conception of health' conflates the distinct ideas of basic and non-basic health needs, as well as those of individual autonomy and freedom. I call this the conflation problem. This paper argues for the need of an understanding of the right to health, nuanced enough to capture not only these distinct ideas, but also their moral relevance for the common good.
authors.affiliation: a University of Ottawa , Canada.|b Law Casas Institute , UK.|c The Von Huge Institute , UK.
authors.forename: Thana C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: de Campos
mesh_terms: D005610:Freedom; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012935:Social Justice
keywords: autonomy; basic health needs; freedom; right to health; well-being