Public International Law in the Situation of a Pandemic

Abstract

In recent years, there have been considerable developments in international law with respect to the normative
definition of the right to health, which includes both health care and healthy conditions. These norms offer
a framework that shifts the analysis of issues such as disparities in treatment from questions of quality of
care to matters of social justice. Building on work in social epidemiology, a rights paradigm explicitly links
health with laws, policies, and practices that sustain a functional democracy and focuses on accountability