I trace the evolution of ethical approaches to health policy in the United States and examine a number of critical unresolved issues pertaining to the current set of frameworks. Several themes emerge. First, fair procedures claim more attention than substantive and procedural principles. Second,...

I trace the evolution of ethical approaches to health policy in the United States and examine a number of critical unresolved issues pertaining to the current set of frameworks. Several themes emerge. First, fair procedures claim more attention than substantive and procedural principles. Second,...

Developing countries, home to 84 percent of the world’s population and 92 percent of the burden of disease, have only 29 percent of global gross domestic product and 16 percent of health spending. In the past three decades, levels of and contributors to global health aid have increased at an...

The summer 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa illustrates global health's striking inequalities. Globalization has also increased pandemics, and disparate health system conditions mean that where one falls ill or is injured in the world can mean the difference between quality care,...

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate...

This Article offers an alternative theoretical framework for health ethics, policy and law, integrating both substantive criteria and procedural mechanisms - a joint scientific and deliberative approach - to guide health-system reform and allocation of scarce health resources. It appeals to a...