Why Is Global Health A Social Justice Issue?
by Ankur Asthana on February 20, 2010
As we commemorate the 2010 World Day of Social Justice, it is important to undertand the reasons why we in GlobeMed consider global health a social justice issue. A recent post on change.org by Victor Roy, former Executive Director of GlobeMed, reminds us of the need of such an approach to global health:
"Let's face it: notions of social justice are often absent in global health debates. Other frames -- global health as "foreign policy" or as "economic investment," for example -- have far more powerful champions and advocates on an institutional level. Large global health funders generally eschew the language of social justice in favor of other vocabularies to describe their efforts.
But there are serious reasons to consider global health a social justice issue. And to mark today, the World Day of Social Justice -- a new holiday celebrated for the first time last year -- I figured it was a timely argument. Accordingly, here are three major reasons why global health advocates should continue to frame global health as a social justice issue..."
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