In 2008, The World Health Organisation released a report titled, ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’. It was the final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. And, much like with ‘One Health’, the genuine objective is hidden in plain view,
Yes, at bottom that's just obscure bureaucratic entities no one has heard of up until recently trying to usurp unlimited power under the guise of "public health".
Notice the fallacious statement right at the get go: ‘Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale‘, and ‘Putting right these inequities… is a matter of social justice‘.
Inequality and social injustice understood as unequal outcomes/societal positions *cannot* cause anything. This is a category mistake, or a nonsensical statement. inequality is a *relational* property obtaining between the position of two or more people/groups: i.e., the relation between one person being, say, at a level of income/welfare X, and the other at the level of X +10. In itself, this can't cause anything, let alone kill people. If anything, it's the (absolute) state of the first person here that causes him/her to be killed, not how it relates to the state of the second person. And that's without even getting into the huge assumptions there about who's responsible for person 1 being in the state that s/he is in, or who is obligated to correct the situation.
These kinds of grandiose documents are absolutely rife with these thoroughly illogical and nonsensical statements. They're non-starters that shouldn't have been taken seriously, but alas, we're at a point where we must take them seriously because they have been promoted well beyond what their content justifies.
Thanks so much for this.
Yes, at bottom that's just obscure bureaucratic entities no one has heard of up until recently trying to usurp unlimited power under the guise of "public health".
Notice the fallacious statement right at the get go: ‘Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale‘, and ‘Putting right these inequities… is a matter of social justice‘.
Inequality and social injustice understood as unequal outcomes/societal positions *cannot* cause anything. This is a category mistake, or a nonsensical statement. inequality is a *relational* property obtaining between the position of two or more people/groups: i.e., the relation between one person being, say, at a level of income/welfare X, and the other at the level of X +10. In itself, this can't cause anything, let alone kill people. If anything, it's the (absolute) state of the first person here that causes him/her to be killed, not how it relates to the state of the second person. And that's without even getting into the huge assumptions there about who's responsible for person 1 being in the state that s/he is in, or who is obligated to correct the situation.
These kinds of grandiose documents are absolutely rife with these thoroughly illogical and nonsensical statements. They're non-starters that shouldn't have been taken seriously, but alas, we're at a point where we must take them seriously because they have been promoted well beyond what their content justifies.