Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions

Sonia Bhalotra and Thomas Pogge
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Thomas Pogge: Yale University

No 38, IZA Policy Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health Impact Fund; justice; patents; globalization; mother-child transmission of health; infant mortality; disease-poverty trap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 I2 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2012-03
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Published - in: 2014, G.W. Brown, G. Yamey, S. Wamala (eds.):.Handbook of Global Health Policy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

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