- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Dedication
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
-
Chapter 1 The emergence and scope of the human right to health -
Chapter 2 Advancing the right to health through litigation -
Chapter 3 The right to health: from concept to practice -
Chapter 4 Health development as nation strengthening -
Chapter 5 Pillars for progress on the right to health -
Chapter 6 Haiti: an overview of its right to health history and future directions -
Chapter 7 The right to health in Ghana: healthcare, human rights, and politics -
Chapter 8 Health and development in India: moving towards the right to health -
Chapter 9 The right to health in post-apartheid era South Africa -
Chapter 10 The domestic implementation of the international right to health: the Philippine experience -
Chapter 11 China’s evolution in progressively realizing the right to health -
Chapter 12 Brazil: a long journey towards a universal healthcare system -
Chapter 13 The right to health in Peru -
Chapter 14 Realizing the right to healthcare in Mexico -
Chapter 15 The United Kingdom: the right to health in the context of a nationalized health service -
Chapter 16 The right to health in Japan: challenges of a super-ageing society and implications from its 2011 public health emergency -
Chapter 17 The United States: right to health obligations in the context of disparity and reform -
Chapter 18 Human rights-based approaches to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria -
Chapter 19 Global tobacco control: a vital component of the right to health -
Chapter 20 Women’s health and human rights: struggles to engender social transformation -
Chapter 21 The right to health in prison -
Chapter 22 Access to medical products, vaccines, and medical technologies -
Chapter 23 Nutrition and human rights: why meeting nutrient needs should be a human right -
Chapter 24 Primum non nocere and the right to health -
Chapter 25 Combating torture and other ill-treatment -
Chapter 26 Emergencies, disasters, conflicts, and human rights -
Chapter 27 Searching for a role for genomics in the right to health -
Chapter 28 Financing governments: towards achieving the right to health -
Chapter 29 The consequences of failure - Index
Pillars for progress on the right to health
Pillars for progress on the right to health
- Chapter:
- (p.69) Chapter 5 Pillars for progress on the right to health
- Source:
- Advancing the Human Right to Health
- Author(s):
Eric A. Friedman
Lawrence O. Gostin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter outlines a four-part approach to accelerating progress towards fulfilling the right to health and reducing both global and domestic health inequities: incorporating right to health obligations and principles into national laws and policies; using creative strategies to increase the impact of national right to health litigation; empowering communities to claim their right to health and building civil society’s health and human rights advocacy capacity; and bringing the right to health to the centre of global governance for health. A global health agreement — a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) — could help construct these pillars. A civil society-led international coalition — the Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health (JALI) — is steering a process to develop just such a treaty. JALI intends the FCGH to be developed through an inclusive and consultative process that amplifies the voices of the people who suffer most from national and global health inequities. To help inform this dialogue, the chapter explores this four-pronged framework better to realize the right to health, and some ideas on how an FCGH could advance each pillar.
Keywords: right to health, health inequality, health policy, public health, framework convention on global health, jalt
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Dedication
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
-
Chapter 1 The emergence and scope of the human right to health -
Chapter 2 Advancing the right to health through litigation -
Chapter 3 The right to health: from concept to practice -
Chapter 4 Health development as nation strengthening -
Chapter 5 Pillars for progress on the right to health -
Chapter 6 Haiti: an overview of its right to health history and future directions -
Chapter 7 The right to health in Ghana: healthcare, human rights, and politics -
Chapter 8 Health and development in India: moving towards the right to health -
Chapter 9 The right to health in post-apartheid era South Africa -
Chapter 10 The domestic implementation of the international right to health: the Philippine experience -
Chapter 11 China’s evolution in progressively realizing the right to health -
Chapter 12 Brazil: a long journey towards a universal healthcare system -
Chapter 13 The right to health in Peru -
Chapter 14 Realizing the right to healthcare in Mexico -
Chapter 15 The United Kingdom: the right to health in the context of a nationalized health service -
Chapter 16 The right to health in Japan: challenges of a super-ageing society and implications from its 2011 public health emergency -
Chapter 17 The United States: right to health obligations in the context of disparity and reform -
Chapter 18 Human rights-based approaches to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria -
Chapter 19 Global tobacco control: a vital component of the right to health -
Chapter 20 Women’s health and human rights: struggles to engender social transformation -
Chapter 21 The right to health in prison -
Chapter 22 Access to medical products, vaccines, and medical technologies -
Chapter 23 Nutrition and human rights: why meeting nutrient needs should be a human right -
Chapter 24 Primum non nocere and the right to health -
Chapter 25 Combating torture and other ill-treatment -
Chapter 26 Emergencies, disasters, conflicts, and human rights -
Chapter 27 Searching for a role for genomics in the right to health -
Chapter 28 Financing governments: towards achieving the right to health -
Chapter 29 The consequences of failure - Index
