Ebook: Health Inequalities and Global Justice
Author: Patti Tamara Lenard, Christine Straehle
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Language: English
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Explores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nations
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Contributors to this volume considers whether health inequalities are a result of global distributive inequalities and are therefore of concern to those promoting global redistributive justice.
Case studies include
- The migration of health care practitioners from developing to developed nations
- The impact of climate change
- The social determinants of health outcomes
- The effects of pharmaceutical legislation – and international bad practices more generally – on securing access to life-saving drugs in the developing world
- The differential effect of these practices on men and women, especially with respect to HIV/AIDS
These cases are explored alongside theoretical questions of definition, responsibility and moral relevance to discover the scope of responsibilities that developed nations have towards poor health in developing nations.
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