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How Can We Provide Access to Family Planning Services in a Culturally Respectful and Ethical Manner in Developing Countries? A Ugandan Case Study
Uganda has the fifth highest fertility rate in the world, and one of the lowest family planning usage rates. While many governments and NGOs measure only physical and economic factors when assessing if a family planning ...
Food Freedom: Combatting Paternalism in SNAP
The purpose of this paper was to state the case that we ought not to restrict sugar-sweetened beverages from SNAP because it would be ineffective, stigmatizing, paternalistic, and would violate human capabilities. Moving ...
Assessing Philosophical Approaches to Combating International Poverty
This paper will examine several philosophical approaches to poverty, and attempt to find the one among them that will be most effective in the fight against international poverty. The four major approaches that will be ...
Impact of Transportation Barriers and Stigmas on the Labor Force Participation of Women in Urban Cities in India
The three important aspects of an ethical framework that promoting human dignity are well-being, liberty, and equality (Pickett, 2022). All three of these are important for a person to live a life if dignity and happiness. ...
Gender Inequality in African Education: How Can the Lessons of South Africa Apply to the Rest of the Continent?
The worldwide problem of unequal female education cannot be solved by domestic policies alone, and the global institutional order must bend to the necessity of human rights and equality. Promoting growth is not a sufficient ...
Societal Obligations for Mental Healthcare Provision in Correctional Facilities: An Ethical Approach
The prison system has increasingly come under scrutiny due to poor conditions, racial inequalities, privatization, and overcrowding. Moreover, increasing numbers of incarcerated individuals are being released in response ...
The Effects of Just Land Distribution on Public Health in Latin America
In this paper, I will illustrate how urban and rural land reforms each affect public health. The term "land reform" can take on a multitude of meanings, but for the purposes of this paper I have defined it as the redistribution ...
What's Passed is Prologue: The Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), passed on March 23, 2010, is the most comprehensive U.S. healthcare reform legislature enacted since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The overarching ...
Arts for All: An Analysis of Arts Access as it Relates to Socioeconomic Status and other Demographic Factors
This paper provides empirical evidence on the benefits of arts education. Building on this, I draw from moral philosophy to advance the claim that all children should receive arts education. However, this paper includes a ...
A New Optimism for Zip Code and Destiny: Promises and Limitations of Middle School Reform in Areas of Concentrated Poverty
This paper begins with the meaning and trends concerning educational disadvantage and high-poverty schools. I then provide an explanation for some of the factors—both external and internal to schools—that contribute to ...