Part 1. Extending access to essential medicines. 1. The human right to health and access to essential medicines -- 2. The human right to health and the virtue of creative resolve -- Part 2. The global health impact project. 3. Promoting global health : the case for Global Health Impact initiatives -- 4. Individual responsibility for promoting global health : the case for a new kind of socially conscious consumption -- Part 3. Ethical consumption and experimental political philosophy. 5. Consumption and social change : the case of Global Health Impact certification -- 6. Beyond experimental political philosophy : evaluating Global Health Impact certification -- Conclusion: Beyond Global Health Impact labeling, licensing, and investment : advancing public health -- Appendix: The human right to health's demands and public goods.
Summary:
"Every year 9 million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day more than 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, every 30 seconds malaria kills a child. Many people suffer and die young because they cannot access essential medicines. This book argues that people have a right to access these medicines and proposes some new Global Health Impact labelling, investment, and licensing strategies that encourage pharmaceutical companies to improve global health (global-health-impact.org/new). The idea is to rate these companies based on their medicines' impacts. Highly rated companies will get a Global Health Impact label to use on their products. Socially responsible investment companies and universities might also take the ratings into account in making investment or licensing decisions. After arguing that people do have a right to access essential medicines, this book explores this proposal, its philosophical justification, and its prospects for success"-- Provided by publisher.
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