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Responsibility - in public health
Luna, Florentia
Luna, Florentia
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"Responsibility is a fundamental value for all decisions and actions in all phases of life and all sectors of society. Responsibility is a key benchmark for ethical behaviour. The following contribution concentrates on the responsibility of Actors in health, especially public health. Every year, eight million children die before they reach the age of five. More than 300,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth and more than four million people die of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. On the one hand, global health would appear to be a permanently irresoluble issue: an immutable pending debt. On the other, it reveals a complexity and variance that makes it a moving target. I will first present some empirical facts about global health. I will argue for a multiple strategy with a nuanced and context-specific solution. Secondly, I will outline possible responsible agents that should tackle global health. Because of partial compliance and practical obstacles to putting ideal theories into practice, I will consider a non-ideal approach. I will defend the need to consider a plurality of responsible agents to ameliorate global health. Finally, I will analyse a real case and show how this proposal based on multiple strategies and various responsible agents is feasible and the best response."
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2016
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9782889311224
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