Distributive Justice and Public Health: Examining Pandemic Obligations to the Global Poor

• Author / Creator

  Stever, Kimberley A.

• Pandemics pose a unique set of health risks and ethical concerns. Increased global mobility, coupled with the fast moving nature of pandemics, ensures that these infectious diseases pose a serious health threat to all persons, regardless of geographical location. Some societies, however, are better equipped to combat pandemics as a result of a more developed public health infrastructure. This paper is an investigation whether a case can be made for considerations of justice between the affluent nations and the least affluent nations of the world when it comes to pandemic relief. Specifically, it examines whether liberal theories of distributive justice, as proposed by John Rawls, Norman Daniels and Thomas Pogge, are capable of supporting a duty to provide pandemic relief to the least affluent nations.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Global Disbtributive Justice
  • Public Health

• Graduation date

  Spring 2014

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Arts

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3X63BD7B

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.