Open AccessHealth justice and capabilities: A turning point for global health?
Author(s) -
Su-ming Khoo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.732
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1461-7242
pISSN - 0268-5809
DOI - 10.1177/0268580913477952
Subject(s) - normative , health equity , sociology , global health , human rights , global justice , economic justice , relevance (law) , social determinants of health , right to health , political science , public relations , law and economics , health care , law
This essay discusses two important recent books on health justice and makes the case for their relevance to global health and to social and political mobilization for health reform. Health and Social Justice (Ruger, 2010) and Health Justice (Venkatapuram, 2011) approach theories of capabilities and justice as the substantive ground of human health. They substantiate and more fully specify the capabilities paradigm, its shared basis with health rights and its relevance to health reforms and the growing global health justice movement. The recent turning point for global health invites a meeting point with the capabilities paradigm. The capabilities approach offers conceptual and practical potential for ‘global health’, linking normative, substantive and procedural claims for health justice and health rights.
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