True One Health: A Singerian Approach to Global Health

Globalisation causes citizens of Western countries to have instant access to the economy in the East. Collaboration with the other side of the globe is made easier than ever before. Yet, healthcare systems in many countries favour the states’ own citizens. Universal healthcare coverage is limited to only the wealthiest communities. Using the work One World Now, Peter Singer’s classic on globalisation, this thesis proposes a system of True One Health: a method of providing basic healthcare for the world’s people, and describes how our moral obligation to those that seem far away is no less than to the people closer to us. While traditional criticisms of utilitarian theory might involve unfavourable outcomes regarding moral chauvinism, the existence of universal moral principles and the sanctity of life, it is concluded that these do not apply to a system of True One Health.