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Item Global Health Justice and Governance(2019-08-21) Ruger, J.P.; Torpey, K.; Ackah, C.; Gyekye-Jandoh, M.A.In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure central health capabilities for all. Professor Jennifer Prah Ruger's book Global Health Justice and Governance (Oxford University Press, 2018) lays out the critical problems facing the world today and offers a new theory of justice and governance as a way to resolve these seemingly intractable issues. In this seminar, Professor Prah Ruger will address the fundamental responsibility of society to ensure human flourishing; the central role that health plays in flourishing and how that places a unique claim on our public institutions and resources to ensure central health capabilities to reduce premature death and avoid preventable morbidities; and the new global health architecture that is needed in order to address staggering inequalities, imperiling epidemics, and inadequate systems.Item "How ought one decide what to include in a national health insurance scheme? Some simple economic principles.”(2019-03-14) Culyer, A.J.Given a few important social value judgments: All public health spending ought to create health/reduce ill-health Making Universal Health Coverage have its maximum impact on the nation’s health is a moral imperative Getting a fairer distribution of health care resources and of healthy life chances is a moral imperative Offering financial protection from personal health expenditures is a moral imperative I argue that a simple analogy helps us to decide what interventions in public and personal healthcare ought to be included in public health insurance schemes and which ones not.