Title:
Advancing the human right to health / edited by José M. Zuniga, Stephen P. Marks, Lawrence O. Gostin.
Author:
Zuniga, José M., editor.
Marks, Stephen P., 1943- editor.
Gostin, Lawrence O. (Lawrence Ogalthorpe), editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.
©2013
Call Number:
K3260.3 .A38 2013
Abstract:
The contents in this book 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 the right to health, this book features an examination of profound inequalities in health, which have resulted in millions of people condemned to unnecessary suffering and hastened deaths. In so doing, it provides a thoughtful account of the right to health's parameters, strategies on ways in which to achieve it, and discussion of why it is so essential in a 21st century context. 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.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy14pdf04/2013940000.html
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199661619
Physical Description:
xxiii, 456 pages ; 26 cm
Contents:
The emergence and scope of the human right to health / Advancing the right to health through litigation / The right to health : from concept to practice / Health development as nation strengthening / Pillars for progress on the right to health / Haiti : an overview of its right to health history and future directions / The right to health in Ghana : healthcare, human rights, and politics / Health and development in India : moving towards the right to health / The right to health in post-apartheid era South Africa / The domestic implementation of the international right to health : the Philippine experience / China's evolution in progressively realizing the right to health / Brazil : a long journey towards a universal healthcare system / The right to health in Peru / Realizing the right to healthcare in Mexico / The United Kingdom : the right to health in the context of a nationalized health service / The right to health in Japan : challenges of a super-ageing society and implications from its 2011 public health emergency / United States : right to health obligations in the context of disparity and reform / Human rights-based approaches to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria / Global tobacco control : a vital component of the right to health / Women's health and human rights : struggles to engender social transformation / The right to health in prison / Access to medical products, vaccines, and medical technologies / Nutrition and human rights : why meeting nutrient needs should be a human right / Primum non nocere and the right to health / Combating torture and other ill-treatment / Emergencies, disasters, conflicts, and human rights / Searching for a role for genomics in the right to health / Financing governments : towards achieving the right to health / The consequences of failure
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