Introduction
Health and health care in the context of global justice is a complicated theme as it is also related to various other issues such as those of distributive justice, human rights, cultural interpretations and traditions, poverty and famines, human security, paternalism and autonomy, environment, climate change, wider concepts of human well-being and development, and so on.
Despite the fact that our world has become more and more interconnected particularly when it comes to sharing information, more technologically advanced, and full of new opportunities for working on the common causes, billions of people still cannot get their basic needs satisfied, and a great number are dying of famine and easily preventable and curable diseases every day. In developing countries, child mortality continues to be high and life expectancy still low, while in the affluent societies, “aging” has become a serious issue for health care. Simultaneously, not only climate change and various...
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Hellsten, S.K. (2011). Health and Health Care. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_289
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