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Area of Science:

  • Global Health
  • Health Ethics
  • Health Policy

Background:

  • Resource scarcity is a pervasive concept in health ethics and policy.
  • Existing analyses seldom question the origins or distribution of resource scarcity.
  • This gap impacts understanding global health justice and resource allocation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce 'interrogating scarcity' as a critical strategy for health policy analysis.
  • To examine the roots of resource scarcity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) within globalization.
  • To propose a new ethical and social science approach to health policy.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of resource scarcity in health ethics.
  • Examination of globalization's impact on LMICs, including trade, finance, structural adjustment, and geopolitics.
  • Analysis of social determinants of health alongside healthcare.

Main Results:

  • Globalization's elements (trade, finance, structural adjustment, geopolitics) contribute to resource scarcity in LMICs.
  • Scarcity is not an inherent state but a product of political and economic systems.
  • Market fundamentalism underlies contemporary globalization and exacerbates health inequities.

Conclusions:

  • Interrogating scarcity offers a critical framework for health policy and ethics.
  • This approach is vital for addressing global health justice and inequities.
  • It calls for a re-evaluation of market fundamentalism's role in health outcomes.