 The question of individual responsibility is also relevant for a number of areas of health policy. If individuals are responsible for the downstream consequences of their harmful health behaviors, policymakers may be justified in withholding care or assigning such patients lesser priority in the allocation of scarce resources (see Voigt 2013). Policymakers may also be justified in designing public health strategies that encourage people to make better choices regarding diet and physical exercise as opposed to addressing the structural circumstances within which people make choices.