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,...

The Obama administration scored a political point in December with its bulletin on essential health benefits, appeasing critics of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by giving states the right to determine what those benefits should be. The proposal is politically savvy. But is it fair?

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...

The experience of human life differs dramatically depending on where one lives in the world. While many of those in wealthier countries can expect decent nutrition, housing, education, and health care, those in the poorest countries live under extraordinary poverty and hardship, without...