This paper examines two strategies aimed at demonstrating that moral obligations to improve global health exist. The … health-related moral obligations beyond borders. This paper argues that political reasoning is unsuitable for the crucial … task of determining priority in the receipt of health aid. We conclude that in the context of global health ethics …

The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international … development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global … health issues (e.g., maternal and child health, nutrition, and neglected tropical diseases). GHI is also being framed as …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …