Abstract
If commissioned to depict on the canvas the status of global health, a Dutch painter from the sixteenth century would likely draw a wide open landscape with incumbent dark clouds. Although in the past century human health has collectively improved ‘more than during the entire previous span of human history’ (World Bank 1995), major challenges darken the picture. At the end of 2003, the late Director-General of WHO Lee Jong-wook noted that: Although aggregate global health indicators have improved substantially since the middle of the past century, the gross health inequalities highlighted in the Alma-Ata Declaration persist. Indeed, the gaps are widening between the world’s poorest people and those better placed to benefit from economic development and public health progress. (Jong-wook 2003) KeywordsMoral ActorPoor Health ConditionMoral DutyHealth DevelopmentGeneral Assembly ResolutionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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