Global Health Ethics Flashcards
Definition of global health
an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide - KOPLAN ET AL 2009
what are Dawson and Hunters 2011 global health ethics 3 accounts?
Geographical (and descriptive)
Content
Normative
Geographical (and descriptive) account of global health ethics
i.e. ethical issues related to heath at the global level. for examples, issues that affect the world and/or issues that can only be solved by global activity.
Content account of global health ethics
i.e. field of study or area of activity with a range of different topics and focal areas within it. for example discussion of a set of important issues that might include: global justice, health inequalities, infectious diseases, resource allocation, international research etc
Normative account of global health ethics
ie an approach requiring us to address global injustice in regard to health, motivated by existing and historical wrongs characteristic of global trade, structural global inequalities, inequalities in power etc