HLTH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ebola Virus Disease, Market Fundamentalism, White Supremacy
13 Jun 2018
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11/8/17
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
10:07 AM
Global Health Ethics
Lessons from Ebola
Jim Lavery
• Ratio of wealth held by rich is super high
• Global expenditures on healthcare and medical research
• Healthcare expenditures: 2.2 T/yr
• Research expenditures: $70+ billion/year
o Of 1393 drugs marketed from 1975-1999 only 16 were for tropical diseases on tb
• Drug expenditures: $400billion/yr
• Us
o 50% global healthcare spending
o 45% global drug expenditures
• What kind of world do we live in?
• An amoral world or worse?
o Luxuries for the few faboured over essentials for majority
o Economic slavery is tolerated and sustained
o Gross abuses of basic human righs are ignored
o The lives of billions are devalued
• Long term self interest threatened by
o Unstable econ system
o Potential for terrorism
• Reciprocal devaluation of lives
o Infectious diseases and bio threats
o Envi degradation
• Ebola general overview
• Ppl used scare tactics to warn public around the world but most ly US
• Focus on burial practices
o The way they dealt with the bodies were super disrespectful which caused ppl to keep
sick/dead bodies at home, assisting spread of disease
• Response by healthcare and health workers prevented spread to nigeria
• Its easy to make regulations but hard af to get countries to participate in that design
• Who pays for WHO?
• All the member nations. 191 or so
• Fifa has more than WHO rip :((((
• Health systems and capacity building
• Shit gets underplayed a lot in the health world in terms of ethics
• Ebola and what happened
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Document Summary
Long term self interest threatened by: unstable econ system, potential for terrorism, reciprocal devaluation of lives. Infectious diseases and bio threats: envi degradation, ebola general overview, ppl used scare tactics to warn public around the world but most ly us. Focus on burial practices: the way they dealt with the bodies were super disrespectful which caused ppl to keep sick/dead bodies at home, assisting spread of disease, response by healthcare and health workers prevented spread to nigeria. Its easy to make regulations but hard af to get countries to participate in that design: who pays for who, all the member nations. Fifa has more than who rip :(((: health systems and capacity building. Long term self interest threatened by: an unstable economic system, potential for terrorism-reciprocal devaluation of lives. Infectious diseases and biological threats: enviro degradation, why is it like this, dominant values and beliefs, scientific progress: will provide new solutions, economic growth as a solution to poverty.
