Social Justice for Public Health : The COVID-19 Response in Portugal

The COVID-19 pandemic requires emergency policies to be put in place in order to avoid a global health catastrophe. At the same time, there has been an increasing preoccupation that argues urgent policies for public health neglect social justice. By looking at Portugal's successful confinement case during the early stages of the pandemic, I argue that ethically driven social justice policies are not just compatible but also an instrumentally important element in addressing this pandemic in an effective way. The Portuguese case study suggests that enhancing social justice towards socio-economically vulnerable groups correlates with the prevention of the spread of COVID-19; these benefits to public health can be explained by the fact that those policies create social distancing and less exposure to the COVID-19 virus and other contagious diseases and also remove disincentives to the use of healthcare services.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Journal of bioethical inquiry - 17(2020), 4 vom: 09. Dez., Seite 669-674

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luís [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

COVID-19
Domestic violence
Economic austerity
Immigrants
Journal Article
Portugal
Prisons
Public health
Social justice

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 04.01.2021

Date Revised 12.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11673-020-10058-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31736989X