Global Health Ethics

Question 1

Definition of global health

Answer 1

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

Question 2

what are Dawson and Hunters 2011 global health ethics 3 accounts?

Answer 2

Geographical (and descriptive)
Content
Normative

Question 3

Geographical (and descriptive) account of global health ethics

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Content account of global health ethics

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Normative account of global health ethics

Answer 5

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