Volume 23/1, June 2021, pp. 11-25 PDF Joan Simalchik Abstract The devastation caused by war and atrocity extends beyond the battlefield and creates conditions with severe public health consequences in affected societies. The infliction of socially organized mass violence and the suppression of reporting of harms has an impact on multiple levels: the individual, the familial, and the social. Ignacio Martín Baró, a Jesuit priest and social psychologist, explored the…
EDITORIAL Proven Concepts in New Contexts: Applying Public Health, Mental Health, and Human Rights Strategies to Atrocity Prevention
Volume 23/1, June 2021, pp. 5-9 PDF Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Arlan Fuller, Caitlin Mahoney, and Amy Meade For the past two years, the editors of this special section (Public and Mental Health, Human Rights, and Atrocity Prevention) have worked in close collaboration to consider the various ways in which human rights and rights-based approaches can promote public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity…
PERSPECTIVE Should COVID-19 Vaccines Authorized for Emergency Use Be Considered “Essential” Medicines?
Volume 23/1, June 2021, pp. 145-150 PDF Maxwell J. Smith, Lisa Forman, Michael Parker, Katrina Perehudoff, Belinda Rawson, and Sharifah Sekalala Abstract A critical debate in the race to develop, market, and distribute COVID-19 vaccines could define the future of this pandemic: How much evidence demonstrating a vaccine’s safety and efficacy should be required before it is considered “essential”? If a COVID-19 vaccine were to be designated an essential medicine…
Fault Lines of Refugee Exclusion: Statelessness, Gender, and COVID-19 in South Asia
Volume 23/1, June 2021, pp. 237-250 PDF Roshni Chakraborty and Jacqueline Bhabha Abstract Despite widespread recognition of the right to a nationality, statelessness and its attendant vulnerabilities continue to characterize the lives of millions in South Asia. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when states turned inward to protect their own citizens, refugees and de facto stateless persons found themselves excluded from humanitarian services and health care and were…
PERSPECTIVE Safe Abortion in Women’s Hands: Autonomy and a Human Rights Approach to COVID-19 and Beyond
Volume 23/1, June 2021, pp. 191-197 PDF Andrés López Cabello and Ana Cecilia Gaitán Introduction While SARS-CoV-2 containment measures transformed all spheres of social interaction, the COVID-19 pandemic has subjected national health systems to unforeseen strain, leading to their virtual collapse in many countries. The international health crisis has exacerbated social inequalities, with a disproportionate impact on traditionally neglected people; unfortunately, its socioeconomic impacts are likely only to deepen in…