Tarek Meguid Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 It is possible to adapt to a given situation precisely because you have got to live it, and you have got to live it every day. But adapting does not mean that you forget. You go to the mill every day — it is always unacceptable to you, it has always been unacceptable to you, and it remains so…
Continue reading “Abstract – Notes on the rights of a poor woman in a poor country”
Tarek Meguid Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 It is possible to adapt to a given situation precisely because you have got to live it, and you have got to live it every day. But adapting does not mean that you forget. You go to the mill every day — it is always unacceptable to you, it has always been unacceptable to you, and it remains so…
Continue reading “Notes on the rights of a poor woman in a poor country”
Paul Hunt and Gunilla Backman Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 Abstract The right to the highest attainable standard of health should be the cornerstone of any consideration of health and human rights.1 The content of this fundamental human right is now sufficiently well understood to be applied in an operational, systematic, and sustained manner. At the heart of the right to the highest attainable standard of…
Continue reading “Health systems and the right to the highest attainable standard of health”
Leslie London Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 Abstract A human rights approach to health is critical to address growing global health inequalities. Three aspects of the nature of health as a right are relevant to shaping a human rights approach to health: 1) the indivisibility of civil and political rights, and socio-economic rights; 2) active agency by those vulnerable to human rights violations; and 3) the…
Continue reading “What is a human-rights based approach to health and does it matter?”
Will we take suffering seriously? Reflections on what applying a human rights framework to health means and why we should care1 Alicia Ely Yamin Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 Abstract Since this journal was first published, rights-based approaches to health have proliferated in the health and development communities. At the same time, human rights advocacy organizations, courts, and UN actors have increasingly been engaged in applying…
Gavin Yamey Abstract Most biomedical journals charge readers a hefty access toll to read the full text version of a published research article. These tolls bring enormous profits to the traditional corporate publishing industry, but they make it impossible for most people worldwide — particularly in low and middle income countries — to access the biomedical literature. Traditional publishers also insist on owning the copyright on these articles, making it…
Paul Farmer Abstract Two decades of work delivering health care in poor communities provide a standpoint from which to challenge conventional doctrines in human rights and public health. These orthodoxies include the priority often assigned to civil and political rights over economic and social rights and a narrow concept of cost-effectiveness in public health policy. An analysis based on economic and social rights underscores, for example, that effectively treating infectious…
Continue reading “Challenging orthodoxies: The road ahead for health and human rights”
Isabel Goicolea , Miguel San Sebastián, and Marianne Wulff Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract Despite advances made by Ecuador in developing policies on reproductive and sexual rights, implementation, and oversight remain a challenge, affecting in particular those living in the Amazon basin. This paper reports on an evaluation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Orellana, Ecuador, the basis of which was the Health…
Siri Gloppen Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This article offers a framework for exploring litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable to human rights norms. Since the 1990s, cases in which people go to court to claim their right to health have increased dramatically in resource-poor countries. With issues ranging from access to health services and medication, to discriminatory…
Clara Rubincam and Scott Naysmith Health and Human Rights 11/1 Published June 2009 Abstract Populations in the developing world that are targeted for disease eradication programs are commonly seen as passive recipients of international aid. Poor people can, however, “participate” in these interventions in unexpected ways. In the absence of traditional sources of leverage, some marginalized people have used their one remaining form of influence — their noncompliance in public…
Continue reading “Unexpected agency: Participation as a bargaining chip for the poor”
