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- 题名/责任者:
- Global health impact : extending access to essential medicines / Nicole Hassoun.
- 出版发行项:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- ISBN:
- 9780197514993
- 载体形态项:
- xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Hassoun, Nicole, author.
- 论题主题:
- Drug accessibility.
- 论题主题:
- Medical care, Cost of.
- 论题主题:
- Drugs-Marketing.
- 论题主题:
- Consumption (Economics)-Moral and ethical aspects.
- 论题主题:
- Pharmaceutical industry-Social aspects.
- 论题主题:
- Right to health.
- 论题主题:
- World health.
- 中图法分类号:
- R19
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- Human rights and access to essential medicines -- The human right to health and the virtue of creative resolve -- Promoting global health : the case for a Global Health Impact labelling and licensing -- Individual responsibility for promoting global health : the case for a new kind of socially conscious consumption -- Consumption and social change : the case of Global Health Impact certification -- Beyond experimental political philosophy : evaluating Global Health Impact certification -- Conclusion: Beyond Global Health Impact labelling, licensing, and investment : advancing public health.
- 摘要附注:
- "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"--
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