Public Health Ethics
Volume 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 121-129

A global public goods approach to the health of migrants (Article) (Open Access)

Widdows H. , Marway H.*
  • a Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
  • b Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Abstract

This paper explores a global public goods approach to the health of migrants. It suggests that this approach establishes that there are a number of health goods which must be provided to migrants not because these are theirs by right (although thismayindependently be the case), but because these goods are primary goods which fit the threefold criteria of global public goods. There are two key advantages to this approach: first, it is nonconfrontational and non-oppositional, and second, it provides self-interested arguments to provide at least some health goods to migrants and thus appeals to those little moved by rights-based arguments. © The Author 2015.

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antibiotic agent health service clinical effectiveness priority journal health care planning migrant health care policy health hazard Article practice guideline human rights Herd immunity human wellbeing Social Environment public health health care delivery
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DOI: 10.1093/phe/phv013
ISSN: 17549973
Cited by: 8
Original Language: English