La participación social en un contexto de violencia política: Implicaciones para la promoción y ejercicio del derecho a la salud en guatemala
Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, y Denise Phé Funchal [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.] Resumen La participación social se ha entendido de muchas formas y existen tipologías en la literatura que la clasifican por los niveles de control por parte de la población en la toma de decisiones. Así, la [...]
Massachusetts health care reform
Beth Waldman [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here] Abstract The United States spends more per capita on health care than nearly every other country; yet despite this level of spending,quality outcomes in the United States are lower than in many developed countries. This poor quality is due in part to [...]
La participación social en un contexto de violencia política: Implicaciones para la promoción y ejercicio del derecho a la salud en Guatemala
Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, y Denise Phé Funchal [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.] Resumen La participación social se ha entendido de muchas formas y existen tipologías en la literatura que la clasifican por los niveles de control por parte de la población en la toma de decisiones. Así, la [...]
Limitations on human rights in the context of drug-resistant tuberculosis: A reply to Boggio et al.
Joseph J. Amon, Françoise Girard, and Salmaan Keshavjee [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.] Abstract Recent attention to multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR- and XDR-TB) has increased discussion and debate over the extent to which limitations to human rights can be justified in the name of [...]
¿Deliberación democrática o mercadeo social? Los dilemas de la definición pública en salud en el contexto del seguimiento de la Sentencia T–760 de 2008
In July 2008, the Colombian Constitutional Court (the Court) issued a decision in which it called upon the Colombian government to adopt a series of measures to progressively realize the right to health. The decision called for a significant restructuring of the country’s health system, in part as a response to the tens of thousands of cases that had flooded the courts in recent years with complaints regarding the system.
Holding multilateral organizations accountable: The failure of WHO in regards to childhood malnutrition
This article first reviews the methods of monitoring growth and development among children under five years of age by the WHO. It then addresses the fact that the WHO delayed disseminating new Child Growth Standards. This delay has cost the lives of malnourished children around the world[...]
Rights to bottle-feeding in poor countries: What is really at stake? A response to Dr. Agnès Binagwaho
The article by Dr. Agnès Binagwaho in Health and Human Rights, Volume 10, Number 1, cannot go without a rebuttal, as the argument appears to rest on several fallacies. Recounting the skepticism that existed ten years ago about anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment in resource-poor settings and the success of activists in forcing the scale-up of access to treatment[...]
A human rights approach to quality of life and health: Applications to public health programming [Spanish]
We post here the original Spanish text of Dr. Armando De Negri Filho’s contribution to this issue of Health and Human Rights, titled, “El enfoque de los derechos humanos en calidad de vida y salud y su aplicación en la reestructuración programática y la reorganización de los servicios: reflexiones alrededor de una estrategia de aplicación:” El [...]
Call for submissions: Health and human rights in disasters
The editors of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal invite manuscripts for a forthcoming theme issue on “Health and Human Rights in Disasters.” NEW DEADLINE: October 31, 2010 (October 15 for manuscripts in Spanish or French). Disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, civil war, and other sudden large-scale calamities often trigger health crises and can result [...]
Reducing the health gap: A global plan for justice
A child born in sub-Saharan Africa is twenty-five times more likely to die in the first five years of life than one born in the United States. If she lives to child-bearing age, she is a two hundred times more likely to die in labor. Overall, she will die thirty years earlier than the American [...]
What is a Human Rights-Based Approach to Health (HRBA)?
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a summary document that defines and explains the Human Rights-Based Approach to Health (HRBA). It can be downloaded here.
Peru’s “right to life” for the zygote and ban on emergency contraception
[Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Maria Alejandra Cardenas. Her bio and link to her American Comparative Law Review article on this topic is found at the end of the article] Over the past eight years, the Constitutional Courts of Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, and Peru have issued decisions banning or highly restricting access [...]
The meaning of human rights for women working in the Rwandan health sector
Monday, March 8 marked the celebration of International Women’s Day, a global tribute to the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In this guest post, Dr. Agnès Binagwaho, Permanent Secretary of Rwanda’s Ministry of Health, reflects on the human rights of women in Rwanda. Sixteen years ago, during the 1994 Rwandan [...]
