Advancing the Human Right to Health
José M. Zuniga, Stephen P. Marks, and Lawrence O. Gostin
Abstract
This book offers a prospective on the global response to one of the greatest moral, legal, and public health challenges of the twenty-first century — achieving the human right to health as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other legal instruments. The book aims to bring clarity to many of the complex clinical, ethical, economic, legal, and socio-cultural questions raised by injury and disease including the deeper determinants of health, such as poverty. Including an examination of the profound inequalities in health, which have resulted in millions of peopl ... More
This book offers a prospective on the global response to one of the greatest moral, legal, and public health challenges of the twenty-first century — achieving the human right to health as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other legal instruments. The book aims to bring clarity to many of the complex clinical, ethical, economic, legal, and socio-cultural questions raised by injury and disease including the deeper determinants of health, such as poverty. Including an examination of the profound inequalities in health, which have resulted in millions of people condemned to unnecessary suffering and hastened deaths, this is much more than a primer on the right to health, it is a thoughtful account of its parameters together with strategies to achieve it, and discussion of why the right is so essential. Country-specific case studies provide context for analysing the right to health and assessing whether, and to what extent, this right has influenced critical decision-making that makes a difference in people’s lives. Thematic chapters also look at the specific challenges involved in translating the right to health into action. The book highlights the urgency to build upon the progress made in securing the right to health for all, offering a timely reminder that all stakeholders must redouble their efforts to advance the human right to health.
Keywords:
human rights,
health,
udhr,
injury,
disease,
poverty,
health inequalities,
right to health
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199661619 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661619.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
José M. Zuniga, editor
President, International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, USA
Stephen P. Marks, editor
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Lawrence O. Gostin, editor
University Professor and Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown University; and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Public Health Law and Human Rights, USA
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