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The Commoditization of Ecosystems within Chile’s Mapuche Territory: A Violation of the Human Right to Health

February 19, 2023

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 Right to Health Care Viewed from the Indigenous Research Paradigm: Violations of the Rights of an Aymara Warmi in Chile’s Tarapacá Region

February 19, 2023

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…

Promoting Patient-Centered Health Care and Health Equity through Health Professionals’ Education in Rural Chiapas

February 19, 2023

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…

Toward an Integrated Framework in Health and Human Rights Education: Transformative Pedagogies in Social Medicine, Collective Health, and Structural Competency

February 19, 2023

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…

Global Social Medicine for an Equitable and Just Future

February 19, 2023

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…

Disability Justice as Part of Structural Competency: Infra/structures of Deafness, Cochlear Implantation, and Re/habilitation in India

February 19, 2023

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…

Growing Up Can be Hard to Do: Reimagining Structurally Supportive Pediatric-to-Adult Transitions of Care from a Rights-Based Perspective

February 19, 2023

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…

COMMENTARY The Right to Health: Looking beyond Health Facilities

February 19, 2023

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…

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

February 19, 2023

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…

BOOK REVIEW: Finding Hope in the Work on War and Health

January 30, 2023

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 227-229 PDF Samer Jabbour From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War by Barry Levy (Oxford University Press, 2022) Few subjects capture the public imagination like war; it is a…