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Coursera: Global Health and Humanitarianism - University of Manchester (2016)

Posted By: ParRus

Date: 19 Nov 2016 16:08:09

Is humanitarianism an effective, justifiable and sustainable response to ill-health, inequality, injustice and war?

Global health is public health at the global level. It deals with the interconnections between peoples from all over the world. It is based on the idea that it is necessary to cooperate internationally to respond to diseases, disasters and conflicts which now threaten us all. Humanitarianism, in all its various forms, is one such response. In attempting to organise a humanitarian intervention, though, we are confronted by a wide range of problems. Most acute of these is the intense inequality which marks the contemporary world. Public health – its capacities, delivery structures and finances – is profoundly different for the 1 billion people who live in the world’s wealthier countries. Those elsewhere have much more limited access to publicly funded or privately insured medicine. As a consequence, non-governmental humanitarian organisations now deliver a large proportion of the world’s health care.

This course introduces these issues by looking first at the vague, yet highly contested, notion a global health agenda. It then goes on to consider how and why the world’s wealthier countries have sought to develop a response to the emergencies and crises that the vulnerabilities of others have produced. Here, public pressure and the ethical imperative to bear witness when confronted with such suffering are especially important. Finally, the course considers whether or not humanitarian assistance can be considered a right. It looks at the emerging Responsibility to Protect agenda and the associated moral dilemmas around sovereignty, post-colonialism and duty-based ethics.

Within this context, the course explores these critical normative and logistical questions:

- Is humanitarian aid as a concept, as simple as the rich helping the poor?
- Are these interventions well-meaning and effective?
- Should governments be committing tax revenues – involuntarily given – to improve the health of others far away?
- Do those that can afford it have a responsibility to act in some way?
- What does receipt of aid mean for the recipient country, its leadership, its future, and its responsibility?
- Must people be helped only according to need, regardless of what a regime might have done?
- Must humanitarians remain neutral – silent perhaps – in the face of injustice in order to ensure access?
- Must the causes of inequality, suffering and violence be ignored in favour of access, action and outcome?

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