Global Health Solidarity: A Multidimensional Framework
Yijie Wang

TL;DR
This paper introduces a multidimensional framework for global health solidarity to better understand and apply it in international health contexts.
Contribution
The novel contribution is a multidimensional framework for global health solidarity encompassing prudential, moral, sociopolitical, and institutional modes.
Findings
Global health solidarity can be understood through four distinct modes: prudential, moral, sociopolitical, and institutional.
The proposed framework provides analytical clarity and practical guidance for global health solidarity practices.
Compared to existing frameworks, global health solidarity offers unique added value to global health discourse.
Abstract
Solidarity has emerged as a vital concept in bioethics. In recent years, the concept of solidarity has transcended domestic boundaries, with its rhetorical power being leveraged across diverse global health contexts. However, despite its prominence in bioethics and its rhetorical use in global health, health solidarity remains largely confined to domestic contexts. This paper fills this gap by exploring the possibility of extending health solidarity on a global level. Rather than pursuing a singular, unitary concept, I propose to conceptualize global health solidarity (GHS) with a multidimensional framework that encompasses four essential modes: prudential, moral, sociopolitical, and institutional. The prudential mode provides a compelling foundation for GHS through self‐interested motivations, emphasizing global health interdependence. The moral mode frames GHS as morally right or…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGlobal Health and Surgery · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Human Rights and Development
