Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 9-21 PDF Mireia Campanera, Mercè Gasull, and Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz Abstract Food insecurity can be understood as a manifestation of health inequality and thus a deprivation of the right to health. This paper explores the strategies followed in primary health care centers in Spain to care for people struggling to regularly access healthy, safe, and sufficient food. Ethnographically based, our study analyzes, on the one hand, the…
The Commoditization of Ecosystems within Chile’s Mapuche Territory: A Violation of the Human Right to Health
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 95-103 PDF Marcela Castro Garrido and Ana María Alarcón Abstract The Araucanía region of Chile is characterized by a significant rural Indigenous population—the Mapuche people—who preserve their cultural beliefs about the world around them. This region is also distinguished by the conflict between the Mapuche people and the Chilean government. The Chilean state has supported the development of extractive projects such as industrial plantations, hydroelectric plants,…
The Right to Health Care Viewed from the Indigenous Research Paradigm: Violations of the Rights of an Aymara Warmi in Chile’s Tarapacá Region
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 81-94 PDF Adimelia Moscoso, Carlos Piñones-Rivera, Rodrigo Arancibia, and Bárbara Quenaya Abstract This paper reflects on the right to health care from the Indigenous research paradigm. We analyze the case of an Aymara wise warmi (woman) who died after the Chilean health care system failed to provide culturally appropriate care. In the wake of her death, our cooperative launched an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project in…
Promoting Patient-Centered Health Care and Health Equity through Health Professionals’ Education in Rural Chiapas
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 119-131 PDF Fátima Rodríguez-Cuevas, Jimena Maza-Colli, Mariana Montaño-Sosa, Martha De Lourdes Arrieta-Canales, Patricia Aristizabal-Hoyos, Zeus Aranda, and Hugo Flores-Navarro Abstract Since 2011, the nongovernmental organization Compañeros En Salud, as Partners In Health is known in Mexico, has worked in collaboration with the Mexican Ministry of Health to strengthen the health care system in the Fraylesca and Sierra Mariscal regions of Chiapas, Mexico. In response to the…
Toward an Integrated Framework in Health and Human Rights Education: Transformative Pedagogies in Social Medicine, Collective Health, and Structural Competency
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 105-117 PDF Luis Martin Ortega, Michael J. Westerhaus, Amy Finnegan, Aarti Bhatt, Alex Olirus Owilli, Brian Turigye, and Youri Encelotti Louis Abstract Global health equity is at a historically tenuous nexus complicated by economic inequality, climate change, mass migration, racialized violence, and global pandemics. Social medicine, collective health, and structural competency are interdisciplinary fields with their own histories and fragmentary implementation in health equity movements situated…
Global Social Medicine for an Equitable and Just Future
EDITORIAL Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 1-8 PDF Carlos Piñones-Rivera, Ángel Martínez-Hernáez, Michelle E. Morse, Kavya Nambiar, Joel Ferrall, and Seth M. Holmes The papers in this special section work together to move toward a global social medicine for the 22nd century. They envision a global social medicine that confronts and moves beyond the traditionally colonial, xenophobic, heteronormative, patriarchal, gender-binary-bound, capitalist, and racist histories of the fields of global health and…
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Disability Justice as Part of Structural Competency: Infra/structures of Deafness, Cochlear Implantation, and Re/habilitation in India
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 39-50 PDF Michele Friedner Abstract In 2014, the Indian state revised a key program providing aids and appliances to disabled people to also include cochlear implants for children living below the poverty line. The program is remarkable in its targeting of the poorest of the poor to provide them with expensive technology made by multinational corporations and its development of new surgery and rehabilitation infrastructures throughout…
Growing Up Can be Hard to Do: Reimagining Structurally Supportive Pediatric-to-Adult Transitions of Care from a Rights-Based Perspective
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 51-65 PDF Michelle Munyikwa, Charles K. Hammond, Leanne Langmaid, and Leah Ratner Abstract Extended life expectancies and shifting dynamics in chronic disease have changed the landscape of public health interventions worldwide, with an increasing emphasis on chronic care. As a result, transition from pediatric to adult care for medically complex adolescents and young adults is a growing area of intervention. Transition medicine is a nascent field…
COMMENTARY The Right to Health: Looking beyond Health Facilities
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 133-135 PDF Agnes Binagwaho and Kedest Mathewos In 1946, the Constitution of the World Health Organization first articulated the right to health, stating that “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being.”[1] This right was further enshrined as a human right in 1966 in article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural…
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COMMENTARY Global Voices for Global (Epistemic) Justice: Bringing to the Forefront Latin American Theoretical and Activist Contributions to the Pursuit of the Right to Health
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 137-147 PDF Paola M. Sesia The invitation by the Health and Human Rights Journal guest editors to provide a viewpoint essay for this special section comes just as we approach the first anniversary of Paul Farmer’s untimely passing. As the date nears, I am inevitably reminded of, and deeply inspired by, Farmer’s contributions and uncompromising commitment to global health equity, social justice, economic and social rights,…