This paper examines two strategies aimed at demonstrating that moral obligations to improve global health exist. The … health-related moral obligations beyond borders. This paper argues that political reasoning is unsuitable for the crucial … task of determining priority in the receipt of health aid. We conclude that in the context of global health ethics …

evidence on how public health emergencies have negatively affected socioeconomic development pathways well beyond the crisis … potato-suitable areas after 1900. Our results highlight the interplay between technological change, public health, and …

The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international … development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global … health issues (e.g., maternal and child health, nutrition, and neglected tropical diseases). GHI is also being framed as …

In recent years policy makers and public health professionals have described obesity and its associated diseases as a … major global public health problem. Bioethicists have tried to address the normative implications of proposed public health … interventions by developing guidelines or proposing ethical principles that ethically grounded health policy responses should take …

Effective responses to non-communicable disease: Embracing action beyond the health sector focuses on solutions … productivity which is vital for development. They also impose hefty costs on health services, particularly since NCDs frequently … the burden of NCDs by more than half, while costing only a tiny fraction of current health spending. Since successful …

to have children, and whether to engage in risky behaviors - all of which affect their future health and future … increasing public health costs and depleting human capital. This note briefly presents program and policy approaches that have …