Moral Right to Healthcare and COVID-19 Challenges

• Main Authors: Mabaquiao, Napoleon M., Jr., Dacela, Mark Anthony L.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: right to health; right to healthcare; pandemic; COVID-19; health ethics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol22/iss1/8; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1440/viewcontent/RA_207.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

One fundamental healthcare issue brought to the fore by the current COVID-19 pandemic concerns the scope and nature of the right to healthcare. Given our increasing need for the usually limited healthcare resources, to what extent can we demand provision of these resources as a matter of right? One...