ABSTRACT

Human rights are essential in shaping the pandemic response both for the public health emergency and the broader impact on people’s well-being. Utilizing the human rights lenses, this article expatiates on a developmental-clinical social work approach to the COVID-19 pandemic response. The disquisition explores human rights to health, education, adequate food and nutrition, water and sanitation, and development. It conducts projections and a cost–benefit analysis of remedial and developmental focus on health. The paper emphasizes that it is criminal to deprive human beings of their entitlements. The paper argues that socio-economic inequalities deprive people of their human rights. To this end, it calls for the equal distribution of wealth to end poverty and ultimately address human rights concerns. It advances for the integration of health in all policies. The article calls for the social work profession and other helping professions to rethink of their priorities in the enhancement of people’s welfare: either to be an agent of social control or an agent of social change. Social work should face the socio-economic inequalities head-on if it is to truly reflect its professional philosophy of social justice.

摘要

对于突发公共卫生事件和对人民福祉的更广泛影响而言，人权对于塑造应对大流行病至关重要。本文利用人权视角，阐述了应对 COVID-19 大流行的发展临床社会工作方法。该论文探讨了健康、教育、充足食物和营养、水和卫生设施以及发展方面的人权。它对健康的治疗和发展重点进行预测和成本效益分析。该文件强调，剥夺人们的权利是犯罪行为。该论文认为，社会经济不平等剥夺了人们的人权。为此，它呼吁平等分配财富以消除贫困并最终解决人权问题。它推动将健康纳入所有政策。这篇文章呼吁社会工作专业和其他帮助专业重新考虑他们在提高人们福利方面的优先事项：要么成为社会控制的推动者，要么成为社会变革的推动者。社会工作要真正体现其社会正义的专业理念，就应该直面社会经济的不平等。