Global Health – One Health – Planetary Health

Eine (sozial-)ethische Annäherung

Abstract

At first glance, the human right to health only demands the right of every individual to access to sufcient resources for the protection and strengthening of his or her physical, mental and psychological health. If we take the universality of this claim and the multidimensionality of health seriously, then this human right demands an expansion beyond the usual focus on individual and public health to include questions of global health that encompass the health of non-human animal life as well as the health of the planetary ecosystem as a whole. These mutual dependencies have signifcant socio-ethical implications that lead to a planetary health equity-in-all-ethics.