Advancing the human right to health / edited by José M. Zuniga, Stephen P. Marks, Lawrence O. Gostin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zuniga, José M., editor.

Marks, Stephen P., 1943- editor.

Gostin, Lawrence O. (Lawrence Ogalthorpe), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right to health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Advancing the Human Right to Health offers a prospective on the global response to one of the greatest moral, legal, and public health challenges of the 21st century - achieving the human right to health as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other legal instruments. Featuring writings by global thought-leaders in the world of health human rights, the book brings clarity to many of the complex clinical, ethical, economic, legal, and socio-cultural questions raised by injury, disease, and deeper determinants of health, such as poverty. Much more than a primer on th

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements and Dedication; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Section 1 The right to health in perspective; 1 The emergence and scope of the human right to health; Stephen P. Marks; 2 Advancing the right to health through litigation; Oscar A. Cabrera and Ana S. Ayala; 3 The right to health: from concept to practice; Helena Nygren-Krug; 4 Health development as nation strengthening; Ariel Pablos-Mendéz and Lesley Stone; 5 Pillars for progress on the right to health; Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin

Section 2 The right to health in action6 Haiti: an overview of its right to health history and future directions; Donna J. Barry, Kate Greene, Wesler Lambert, Fernet Léandre, and Loune Viaud; 7 The right to health in Ghana: healthcare, human rights, and politics; Raymond A. Atuguba; 8 Health and development in India: moving towards the right to health; Ravi Duggal; 9 The right to health in post-apartheid era South Africa; Charles Ngwena, Rebecca Cook, and Ebenezer Durojaye; 10 The domestic implementation of the international right to health: the Philippine experience; Raul C. Pangalangan

11 China's evolution in progressively realizing the right to healthPhilip D. Chen and Di Wu; 12 Brazil: a long journey towards a universal healthcare system; Armando De Negri Filho; 13 The right to health in Peru; Ariel Frisancho; 14 Realizing the right to healthcare in Mexico; Julio Frenk and Octavio Gómez-Dantés; 15 The United Kingdom: the right to health in the context of a nationalized health service; Matthew Weait; 16 The right to health in Japan: challenges of a super-ageing society and implications from its 2011 public health emergency; Hiroaki Matsuura and Eriko Sase

17 The United States: right to health obligations in the context of disparity and reformAlicia Ely Yamin and Jean Connolly Carmalt; Section 3 The right to health: challenges and opportunities; 18 Human rights-based approaches to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; Britta Baer, Andrew Ball, Helena Nygren-Krug, Aafje Rietveld, and Diana Weil; 19 Global tobacco control: a vital component of the right to health; Oscar A. Cabrera and Lawrence O. Gostin; 20 Women's health and human rights: struggles to engender social transformation; Alicia Ely Yamin; 21 The right to health in prison

Joanne Mariner and Rebecca Schleifer22 Access to medical products, vaccines, and medical technologies; Stephen P. Marks and Adriana L. Benedict; 23 Nutrition and human rights: why meeting nutrient needs should be a human right; Martin W. Bloem and Saskia de Pee; 24 Primum non nocere and the right to health; José M. Zuniga and Imane Sidibé; 25 Combating torture and other ill-treatment; Michael Bochenek; 26 Emergencies, disasters, conflicts, and human rights; Victoria Sutton; 27 Searching for a role for genomics in the right to health; Lisa Eckstein

28 Financing governments: towards achieving the right to health

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

1-299-75689-1

0-19-163764-5

0-19-163763-7

OCLC:

861538178