Advancing the human right to health /
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 wr...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Paul Hunt
- The emergence and scope of the human right to health / Stephen P. Marks
- Advancing the right to health through litigation / Oscar A. Cabrera and Ana S. Ayala
- The right to health : from concept to practice / Helena Nygren-Krug
- Health development as nation strengthening / Ariel Pablos-Mendéz and Lesley Stone
- Pillars for progress on the right to health / Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin
- Haiti : an overview of its right to health history and future directions / Donna Barry, Kate Greene, Wesler Lambert, Fernet Léandre, and Loune Viaud
- The right to health in Ghana : healthcare, human rights, and politics /Raymond A. Atuguba
- Health and development in India : moving towards the right to health / Ravi Duggal
- The right to health in post-apartheid era South Africa / Charles Ngwena, Rebecca Cook, and Ebenezer Durojaye
- The domestic implementation of the international right to health : the Philippine experience / Raul Pangalangan
- China's evolution in progressively realizing the right to health / Philip D. Chen and Di Wu
- Brazil : a long journey towards a universal healthcare system / Armando De Negri Filho
- The right to health in Peru / Ariel Frisancho
- Realizing the right to healthcare in Mexico / Julio Frenk and Octavio Gómez-Dantés
- The United Kingdom : the right to health in the context of a nationalized health service / Matthew Weait
- 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
- United States : right to health obligations in the context of disparity and reform / Alicia Ely Yamin and Jean Connolly Carmalt
- Human rights-based approaches to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria / Britta Baer, Andrew Ball, Helena Nygren-Krug, Aafje Rietveld, and Diana Weil
- Global tobacco control : a vital component of the right to health / Oscar A. Cabrera and Lawrence O. Gostin
- Women's health and human rights : struggles to engender social transformation / Alicia Ely Yamin
- The right to health in prison / Joanne Mariner and Rebecca Schleifer
- Access to medical products, vaccines, and medical technologies / Stephen P. Marks and Adriana Benedict
- Nutrition and human rights : why meeting nutrient needs should be a human right / Martin W. Bloem and Saskia de Pee
- Primum non nocere and the right to health / José M. Zuniga and Imane Sidibé
- Combating torture and other ill-treatment / Michael Bochenek
- Emergencies, disasters, conflicts, and human rights / Victoria Sutton
- Searching for a role for genomics in the right to health / Lisa Eckstein
- Financing governments : towards achieving the right to health / Joia Mukherjee
- The consequences of failure / Anand Grover, Brian Citro, and Mihir Mankad