Lessons from the Chilean earthquake: How a human rights framework facilitates disaster response

MaryCatherine Arbour, Kara Murray, Felipe Arriet, Cecilia Moraga, Miguel Cordero Vega Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 Abstract The earthquake of 2010 in Chile holds important lessons about how a rights-based public health system can guide disaster response to protect vulnerable populations. This article tells the story of Chile Grows With You (Chile Crece Contigo), an intersectoral system created three years before the earthquake for protection of child…

Recent health and human rights literature

Public health foundations: Concepts and practices Elena Andresen and Erin DeFries Bouldin, editors Jossey-Bass, 2010 ISBN 978–0–470–44587–7 (paperback) 520 pages $80 Based on an introductory course at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, this multi-contributor textbook covers public health history, development, and organization (chapters 1–2), analytic tools and methods (chapters 3–10), behavior and health (chapters 11–13), health services and social determinants (chapters 14–16), and forecasting…

Lessons from the Chilean earthquake: How a human rights framework facilitates disaster response

MaryCatherine Arbour, Kara Murray, Felipe Arriet, Cecilia Moraga, Miguel Cordero Vega Abstract The earthquake of 2010 in Chile holds important lessons about how a rights-based public health system can guide disaster response to protect vulnerable populations. This article tells the story of Chile Grows With You (Chile Crece Contigo), an intersectoral system created three years before the earthquake for protection of child rights and development, and its role in the…

Abstract – Denial of flood aid to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan

Atif M. Malik Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 Abstract During the catastrophic floods of 2010 in Pakistan, approximately 500 internally displaced families belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam were denied humanitarian relief. The failure of international agencies and Pakistan’s government to protect basic human rights in the context of disaster relief raises profound questions. If all humanitarian work associated with natural disasters must be governed by…

Denial of flood aid to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan

Atif M. Malik Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 Abstract During the catastrophic floods of 2010 in Pakistan, approximately 500 internally displaced families belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam were denied humanitarian relief. The failure of international agencies and Pakistan’s government to protect basic human rights in the context of disaster relief raises profound questions. If all humanitarian work associated with natural disasters must be governed by…

Fanm ayisyen pap kase: Respecting the right to health of Haitian women and girls1 Lisa Davis and Blaine Bookey Abstract Only in recent years has violence against women begun to receive international attention as both a public health and human rights concern. This article argues that the right to be free from sexual violence is a fundamental component of the right to health, and the need is particularly acute in…

Abstract – Fanm ayisyen pap kase: Respecting the right to health of Haitian women and girls1 Lisa Davis and Blaine Bookey Abstract Only in recent years has violence against women begun to receive international attention as both a public health and human rights concern. This article argues that the right to be free from sexual violence is a fundamental component of the right to health, and the need is particularly…

Abstract – Identification of human trafficking victims in health care settings

Susie B. Baldwin, David P. Eisenman, Jennifer N. Sayles, Gery Ryan, Kenneth S. Chuang Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 Abstract Background An estimated 18,000 individuals are trafficked into the United States each year from all over the world, and are forced into hard labor or commercial sex work. Despite their invisibility, some victims are known to have received medical care while under traffickers’ control. Our project aimed…

Identification of human trafficking victims in health care setting

Susie B. Baldwin, David P. Eisenman, Jennifer N. Sayles, Gery Ryan, Kenneth S. Chuang Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 Abstract Background An estimated 18,000 individuals are trafficked into the United States each year from all over the world, and are forced into hard labor or commercial sex work. Despite their invisibility, some victims are known to have received medical care while under traffickers’ control. Our project aimed…

Abstract – Measuring the way forward in Haiti: grounding disaster relief in the legal framework of human rights

Amanda M. Klasing, P. Scott Moses, and Margaret L. Satterthwaite Health and Human Rights 13/1 Published June 2011 Abstract This article provides results from an online survey of humanitarian workers and volunteers that was conducted in May and June 2010. The purpose of the survey was to understand how the humanitarian aid system adopts or incorporates human rights into its post-natural disaster work and metrics. Data collected from Haiti suggest…