Rights-based approaches are often based on deontological
traditions and the assumption that human dignity is of central
value. Current rights-based approaches of political philosophy
relate often to the influential justice approach of John Rawls (7).
Rawls’ liberal justice concept claims that persons have rights to
fair equality of opportunity. Norman Daniels transferred Rawls’
approach to health and specifies it in such a way that health (defined
as normal species functioning) contributes to the opportunity
range of persons. Thus, people have rights to receive appropriate
health care and live in environments in which social determinants
of health are distributed in a fair way (8).