Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Chapter 6 Is There a Need for Global Health Ethics?
- Chapter 7 The Human Right to Health
- Chapter 8 International Human Rights Law and the Social Determinants of Health
- Chapter 9 Responsibility for Global Health
- Chapter 10 Bioethics and Global Child Health
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - The Human Right to Health
from Section 2 - Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Chapter 6 Is There a Need for Global Health Ethics?
- Chapter 7 The Human Right to Health
- Chapter 8 International Human Rights Law and the Social Determinants of Health
- Chapter 9 Responsibility for Global Health
- Chapter 10 Bioethics and Global Child Health
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Summary
It is hardly news that the health and life expectancy of many of the peoples of the developing world fall well below what we might think should be a reasonable standard. Health inequalities remain stark. For example, according to one source, in 2018 life expectancy at birth was 85.5 years for those born in Japan but a depressingly low 52 years for those born in Afghanistan (Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], 2019). This gap is highly significant, although it represents a great improvement for those at the bottom compared with the situation merely 10 years ago, where a life expectancy of 32 years was reported for Eswatini (then known as Swaziland; CIA, 2009). If this figure is to be believed, then it may well be that adult male life expectancy in Swaziland was the lowest it had ever been in history, or at least not far above.
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- Global HealthEthical Challenges, pp. 110 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021