Issues

Danielle Da Costa Leite Borges Abstract This article investigates policy and bureaucracy changes provoked by individual litigation for health care rights in Brazil, especially the one regarding access to medicines, looking at the effects it…

Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Katrina Perehudoff, and José Castela Forte Abstract Uruguay has witnessed an ever-increasing number of domestic court claims for high-priced medicines despite its comprehensive universal coverage of pharmaceuticals. In…

Christopher Newdick  Abstract How should courts supervise health service resource allocation? Although practice varies widely, four broad approaches can be represented on a matrix comparing, on two axes, (a) individual-community rights and…

Nina Sun and Joseph J. Amon Abstract Twenty neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are currently recognized by the World Health Organization. They affect over one billion people globally and are responsible for significant morbidity, mortality,…

Alice Cruz In the mid-nineteenth century, when public health was establishing itself as a scientific field, the great physician-scientist Rudolph Virchow wrote, “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a larger…

Joseph J. Amon and David G. Addiss In 2007, Paul Hunt, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and colleagues published a report entitled Neglected Diseases: A Human Rights Analysis. In introducing the report, the authors wrote:…