Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions

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Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier effects, producing sustained population and economic gains in poor countries. We suggest how contemporary global institutions shaping the development, pricing and distribution of vaccines and drugs may be modified to deliver large improvements in health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Policy Paper ; No. 38

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy
• Subject: disease-poverty trap ; infant mortality ; mother-child transmission of health ; globalization ; patents ; justice ; Health Impact Fund ; Krankheit ; Armut ; Kindersterblichkeit ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Gesundheitsversorgung ; Nord-Süd-Beziehungen ; Welt ; Entwicklungsländer

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bhalotra, Sonia R. ; Pogge, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/91791
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET