UNCC300 - Justice & Change in a Global World: Addressing Global Issues

This essay delves into the complexities of justice and change in a globalized world, focusing on the challenges of realizing the common good in the face of issues like the global fast-food market and health disparities. It examines the Catholic Social Theory's perspective on health as a common good, highlighting the importance of human rights and addressing local health hazards. The essay proposes solutions through communicative, distributive, and social justice, emphasizing the need to mitigate poverty and prioritize the poor, aligning with the Catholic Social Theory's 'option for the poor.' It stresses the importance of awareness, policy implementation, and shared responsibility in creating a more just global community, advocating for a holistic approach that considers both individual rights and collective well-being. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments for students.

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The public health has become a growing concern for the healthcare industry. The
public health has to face certain challenges, as pointed out by the researchers. The changes in
the economy, the ongoing globalization, climate change and the rapidly growing fast food
market, have made the public health a point of concern in the healthcare industry. The
Catholic Social Theory first incorporated health as a common good, into the system of
understanding. According to the theory, neither the healthcare institutions nor the healthcare
system can be regarded as the common good, however, the system of healthcare is a part of
the proper functioning of the community life and also a part of the total health care system
(Brownson et al, 2018). Therefore, the health is regarded as the public good.
The researchers have therefore, been posed with certain challenges regarding the
appropriation or realization of the public health as a common good. As viewed by the
researchers, there are two aspects of issues related to the health being a common good, one is,
health- related human rights, and the other on is, health- related common goods. The issues
related to health and human rights, argues that the individuation of the health rights, is fixed
by the reference to the subject matter is interested in its corresponding obligations and not in
the personal interests that it obliges to (Vayena et al., 2015). Another challenging position, as
found by the human rights policy makers, is the human rights fail to constitute the whole of
the global health justice and the promotion of the same. There is seen to be a lack in the
policies that are available. A third challenging position, as according to the researchers, is
that the orientation towards the conception of the relationship between human rights and
common goods. The policy makers are of the opinion the human rights and the common
goods are not as mutually exclusive, as they are perceived to be, by the individuals
(Santorum, 2014). There are certain individual rights that can be practiced as regarded by the
researchers, but it is often seen that the individuals not aware of the fact and even of they are
aware, they do not act upon the same in the rightful manner.

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The challenges related to health being a common good, has a local reference at it. The
local issues related to the health being a common good, essentially are, the health hazards that
are presented and can be viewed among the people. It is essentially observed that the people
fail to understand or lack the understanding of the health hazards that they are posed with.
Therefore, these are certain challenging situations that the policy makers and the health
advisors are often face with (Douglas, 2013). Also the increasing levels of poverty, is another
issue that are evidently present in the society.
Therefore, these are the certain areas, which can be addressed by incorporating certain
proper human rights policies and other forms of policies, which can govern the situation.
Locally, the appropriation of the health as a common good, can be addressed by
increasing the awareness among the people, related to the health hazards, that they are faced
with, or that they can face in the future.
Globally, the challenges can be addressed by, the acknowledging the three kinds of or
levels of justice. The communicative justice upholds the issue of fundamental fairness in the
exchange relationships and in the agreements between the individuals and the private social
groups. This essentially require the equal dignity among the individuals and the economic or
financial transactions and the social transactions that are made by them. The distributive
justice entails that the allocation of wealth and power within the social system, must be
evaluated on the basis of the needs or requirements of the same on the people, and govern the
unmet needs of the persons. The last one is the social justice that holds the idea that, each and
every individual of the society, should be participative in the social processes and must be
productive in their ways (Smith, 2014). Moreover, the society should enable its individuals to
be productive in their own ways. This form of justice can also be called the contributive

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justice, for its stress on the duties and obligations as presents among the individuals of the
society.
Another global and local approach to redresses and address then challenges, is the
way to mitigate the poverty, which is observed within all kinds of societies. According to the
Catholic Social Theory, this is the called the option for the poor, or the preferential option for
the poor. It is seen that all the societies, irrespective of its status being, developed, developing
or underdeveloped, are presented with a scenario of poverty in some of the parts of each of
the society. The basic idea of the church is that, in order to promote the human dignity, the
church plays a pivotal role in the showing the preferences for the poor and the voiceless ones,
and are of the opinion, that they must be given love and voice. The concept or understanding
of the option for the poor, is essentially seen to be part of the health as a common good. The
health of the poor section of thee societies or the poverty stricken area of the societies, are
essentially treated as the common good by the societies, as they are essentially a part of the
economic situation of a country. The poverty stricken area of a country and thee number of
poor of a country, determines the economic position and the economic growth of the same, in
the global perspective (Vest et al., 2013). Moreover, the amount of poor of a society, is also
seen to be determining the GDP of the country, therefore, thus area should be properly
addressed and redressed with the incorporation of proper rules and regulations.
Therefore, as according to the Catholic Social Theory (CST), these are the areas of challenge
that are presented within the society, which must be met with proper policies.

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