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- Title
The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Tipping Point: What Future for the Right to Health?
- Authors
SCHRECKER, TED
- Abstract
"Building back better" post-pandemic, as advocated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, could advance the realization of health as a human right. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to represent a tipping point into a new and even more unequal normal, nationally and internationally, that represents a hostile environment for building back better. This paper begins with a brief explanation of the tipping point concept. It goes on to describe the mechanisms by which the pandemic and many responses to it have increased inequality, and then identifies three political dynamics that are inimical to realizing health as a human right even in formal democracies, two of them material (related to the unequal distribution of resources within societies and in the global economy) and one ideational (the continued hegemony of neoliberal ideas about the proper limits of public policy). Observations about the unequal future and what it means for health conclude the paper.
- Subjects
HEALTH policy; HUMAN rights; HEALTH services accessibility; PUBLIC health; MEDICAL care costs; POLICY science research; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; MEDICAL care use; GOVERNMENT policy; SOCIAL classes; NATURAL disasters; HEALTH equity; HOUSING; COVID-19 pandemic; MEDICAL needs assessment
- Publication
Health & Human Rights: An International Journal, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 2, p111
- ISSN
1079-0969
- Publication type
Article