Health Inequalities and Global Justice

Explores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nations Who bears responsibility for causing heath inequalities? Who should take responsibility for ameliorating them? Millions around the world die from preventable diseases. Millions more suffer from poor health as a result of extreme poverty. This volume considers whether health inequalities are a result of global distributive inequalities and are therefore of concern to those promoting global redistributive justice. The contributors explore questions of defining and measuring health, and identifying moral responsibility for poor health outcomes as well as for remedying poor health around the world. There are also case studies on key issues such as the migration of health care practitioners from developing to developed nations, 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, and the differential effect of these practices on men and women, especially with respect to HIV/AIDS. Key Features - Gives readers a full sense of the ways in which global policy making is affecting health outcomes in poor countries - Highlights the moral dilemmas of global policies with specific respect to health - Outlines the scope of responsibilities which developed nations may have in order to remedy poor health in developing nations Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle are Assistant Professors of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Jacket image: (c) Günay Mutlu/iStockphoto Jacket design: [insert logo file] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-0-7486-4692-0 [please add in the white area above the barcode] Barcode