Sarah Glowa-Kollisch, Kelly Andrade, Richard Stazesky, Paul Teixeira, Fatos Kaba, Ross Macdonald, Zachary Rosner, Daniel Selling, Amanda Parsons, Homer Venters Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract The electronic health record (EHR) is a commonplace innovation designed to promote efficiency, quality, and continuity of health services. In the New York City jail system, we implemented an EHR across 12 jails between 2008 and 2011. During the same time, our work…
The Impact of Reliance on Private Sector Health Services on the Right to Health
Audrey Chapman Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract A human rights approach is predicated on the responsibility of states to design health systems and implement health policies that are consistent with human rights requirements. However, in the contemporary health landscape, health services are increasingly delivered through private health sector institutions, and governments often lack direct control over some or many components of the health system. Private provision of health…
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Emerging Roles of Health Care Providers to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts: A Perspective from East Harlem, New York
Perry E. Sheffield, Kathleen T. Durante, Elena Rahona, Christina Zarcadoolas Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract Professional associations of health care workers are issuing policy statements on climate change and health with greater frequency, calling on their members to act in their duty to protect and fulfill the right to health. These health care providers’ perceptions of their roles in the intersection of climate and health, however, have not…
Women, E-Waste, and Technological Solutions to Climate Change
Lucy McAllister, Amanda Magee, Benjamin Hale Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract In this paper, we argue that a crossover class of climate change solutions (which we term “technological solutions”) may disproportionately and adversely impact some populations over others. We begin by situating our discussion in the wider climate discourse, particularly with regard to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Basel Convention. We then suggest that many of…
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Wrong Side of the Tracks: The Neglected Human Costs of Transporting Oil and Gas
Lloyd Burton and Paul Stretesky Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract The connection between human rights and climate change is most evident when examining carbon dioxide emissions that result from burning fossil fuels (e.g., sea level rise and displaced coastal cultures). However, the transport of fossil fuels also has human rights implications for human rights and climate change. This research focuses on the health and safety risks inflicted on…
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Collective Violence Caused by Climate Change and How It Threatens Health and Human Rights
Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract The weight of scientific evidence indicates that climate change is causally associated with collective violence. This evidence arises from individual studies over wide ranges of time and geographic location, and from two extensive meta-analyses. Complex pathways that underlie this association are not fully understood; however, increased ambient temperatures and extremes of rainfall, with their resultant adverse…
Human Rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Sara L. M. Davis Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract In recent years, multilateral and bilateral donors have begun engaging more actively in assessment and management of human rights risks that can either impact, or unintentionally result from, aid investments. In 2012, the Global Fund committed to a four-year strategy which includes protecting and promoting human rights as one of its strategic objectives. This ambitious commitment placed the Global…
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Climate Change and the Right to Health for Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Rhys Jones, Hayley Bennett, Gay Keating, Alison Blaiklock Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract Climate change is widely regarded as one of the most serious global health threats of the 21st century. Its impacts will be disproportionately borne by the most disadvantaged populations, including indigenous peoples. For Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, as with other indigenous peoples worldwide, colonization has led to dispossession of land, destabilization of cultural foundations, and…
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Climate Change, Children’s Rights, and the Pursuit of Intergenerational Climate Justice
Elizabeth D. Gibbons Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/1 Abstract Frequently forgotten in the global discussions and agreements on climate change are children and young people, who both disproportionately suffer the consequences of a rapidly changing climate, yet also offer innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (climate change mitigation) and adapt to climate change. Existing evidence is presented of the disproportionately harmful impact of climate-induced changes in precipitation and…
MDG4 Lessons Could Save More Children’s Lives After 2015
By Carmel Williams, Executive Editor, Health and Human Rights Journal If human rights-based approaches to child health had informed the Millennium Development Goal addressing child survival, the already impressive reduction in child mortality since 1990 could have been even greater. Elisa Diaz-Martinez and Elizabeth Gibbons argue that the narrow framing of MDG4 created a rupture from the previous 25 years’ worth of global endeavors to advance child survival in tandem…
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