Do children get their fair share of health and dental care?

This paper reviews the work of several authors, D.W. Brock, D. Callahan, L. Churchill, L.M. Kopelman, R. Tong who consider assumptions and arguments a bout how to allocated health and dental care to children fairly. They use v arious approaches including feminist, rights based, and principled consider ations, applying general notions of duty or justice to the issues of childr en's access to basic health and dental care. Two discuss these issues in re lation to the work of David Hume. These authors consider children's greates t unmet health needs, including that of dental care, often mistakenly regar ded as medically unimportant in terms of children's wellbeing, opportunitie s, and self-image. They review possible age bias against children in the al location of health and dental care, the gap between what we say and do wher e children are concerned, and whether some fundamental shift in social thin king needs to occur.