Sustainable Health for All? The Tension Between Human Security and the Right to Health Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12948012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Lautensach (0000-0002-6832-420X, University of Northern British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1835-3800 • E-ISSN: 1835-3800 |
| Publisher | Librelloph (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.12924/johs2015.11010005 |
| OpenAlex | W2031768732 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
In the current global environmental crisis medical aid and disaster relief is given by the UN and its branches, by governments and by NGOs, who regard it as their duty to address large-scale humanitarian catastrophes. The duty to give medical aid rests on traditional interpretations of health security and on the bioethical imperatives to relieve suffering and to save lives. However, those principles are not easily reconciled in the current situation of global environmental change and the threats it poses to human security. The global demand for health care has already outpaced resources in many regions, and those resources are likely to decline further. An ethic based on more comprehensive concepts of human security can lessen the contradictions between ethical priorities because it takes into account environmental security. However, that approach leads to clashes with common interpretations of human rights, including the so-called right to health care. The argument presented in this paper states that, under the imperative of ensuring the survival for humanity in acceptable and sustainable ways, the latest generation of human rights pertaining to health care and environmental quality have become ungrantable. While this does not render them negligible, it does necessitate a new approach to global development aid and health security, with severe consequences for individual autonomy
Argument (complex analysis · Autonomy · Bioethics · Business · Duty · Duty to protect · Economic growth · Economics · Global health · Health care · Human rights · Human security · Political science · Right to health · Sustainable development · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Health and Conflict Studies · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine
Betrayal of Trust
Ultimate security
For the common good
Overshoot
Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox
Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Development
Impact of Population Growth
A safe operating space for humanity
Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics
Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security
The Case For Animal Rights
Health Aspects of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
The importance of human population to sustainability
STIRPAT, Ipat and ImPact
Environmental Security and Peace
Human Population Dynamics
Limits to growth
Human Frontiers, Environments, and Disease
Animal Liberation
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Too many bodies? The return and disavowal of the population question
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |