Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Farmer ◽  
Nicole Gastineau
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health And Well Being

Medicine and its allied health sciences have for too long been peripherally involved in work on human rights. Fifty years ago, the door to greater involvement was opened by Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which underlined social and economic rights: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”

The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Justice, Autonomy, and the Basic Needs

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Copp
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health And Well Being

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads as follows: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services.” I shall refer to the right postulated here as “the right to an adequate standard of living” or “The Right.”

scholarly journals SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTENT OF A DECENT LIFE

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-270
Author(s):  
E.T. Temirbekova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health And Well Being

The human right to a decent life is a fundamental social right that is the basis for the entire system of human social rights and freedoms. This right is enshrined in international law and includes a set of rights necessary for the free development of the personality in the economic, social and cultural fields, the right to a standard of living that is necessary to maintain the health and well-being of the human and his family. According to the Universal Declaration of human rights: «everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, medical care and social services». The life of a person who continuously receives new knowledge and hones professional skills, who is a conductor of high quality of creative selfrealization, is worthy. Today the public demand for large-scale innovations can only be met by activating continuous human creative activity. Hence the conclusion: a decent human life is the basis for innovative development of the entire society. And the modern innovative economy requires a new, innovative approach to the person, his role and significance in the modern socio-economic reality. Keywords: «decent life», quality of life, standard of living, living standard.

scholarly journals QUALIDADE AMBIENTAL E URBANA NA HABITAÇÃO SOCIAL EM PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE -SP:O CASO DO CONJUNTO HABITACIONAL ANA JACINTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Fernanda Fonseca de Oliveira ◽  
Jean Guilherme Oliveira ◽  
Tiago Bonfim Dias ◽  
Mayara Pissutti Albano Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
Quality Mark ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The right to suitable housing has become recognized and accepted by the international community since its inclusion in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, whosetext, in its article 25, alleges that everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living for the family’s health and welfare, including food, clothing, medical care and the necessary social services. In Brazil, low constructive and architectural quality mark the production of social housing, culminating on the reduction of the beneficiary’s quality of life and environmental problems. Therefore, the present work aims to submit surveys and analysis of Ana Jacinta housing complex in the city of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, in order to evaluate the environmental and urban quality of the units delivered to beneficiaries in the early 1990s. The methodology isbased in bibliographic and documentary surveys.

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Interamerican System

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. LeBlanc
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health And Well Being

The human rights proclaimed and affirmed in the various international declarations, conventions, and covenants adopted since World War II fall into two broad categories: civil and political; and economic, social, and cultural. The former includes the traditional rights of man, such as the rights to life and liberty; the latter includes such rights as the right to work, to social security, and to the preservation of one's health and well-being.International agreement in principle on most civil and political rights as human rights has been relatively easy to achieve; disagreement has occurred—and is likely to continue to occur-primarily over their precise meaning. Virtually everyone endorses, for example, a right to life; not everyone agrees, however, that capital punishment or abortion must therefore be prohibited by law.

scholarly journals HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS AND THE MALAYSIAN CONSTITUTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-127
Author(s):  
Khairil Azmin Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Right

Health rights, unlike political and economic rights, until recently has not received sufficient attention that it truly deserves despite being equally important as other aspects of human rights.  It is timely that the right to health be given serious attention and more coverage by the media, legal fraternity and the authorities as well as by the public at large. Unfortunately, the Malaysian Constitution does not have any express provision which recognizes health right and no laws in the country so far acknowledged such right. Hence, this research is done to supplement the gap.  This is a legal research which applies qualitative approach focusing on rights relating to private and public health. It is a doctrinal and jurisprudential study and examines international and national laws, especially the Malaysian Constitution. Health is essential for a good life of any human being. Without it a person cannot have a quality life. Although it cannot be expected that government must guarantee everybody will be healthy it cannot be denied that among the functions and obligations of the governments are to provide healthcare services to the community and ensure that facilities and avenues for medical treatments are available to the people. This right has been firmly established in international human rights laws. Its realization has been the subject and objective of various international conventions and policies. It is believed that right to health is ingrained in the constitution of the country and should be recognized by the courts and the governments.

scholarly journals Struggles for Human Rights in Health in an Age of Neoliberalism: From Civil Disobedience to Epistemic Disobedience

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-372
Author(s):  
Alicia Ely Yamin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Like other contributors to this special issue and beyond, I believe we are at a critical inflection point in human rights and need to re-energize our work broadly to address growing economic inequality as well as inequalities based on different axes of identity. In relation to the constellation of fields involved in ‘health and human rights’ specifically—which link distinct communities with dissonant values, methods and orthodoxies—I argue that we also need to challenge ideas that are taken for granted in the fields that we are trying to transform. After setting out a personal and subjective account of why human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) are unlikely to be meaningful tools for social change as they are now generally being deployed, I suggest we collectively—scholars, practitioners and advocates—need to grapple with how to think about: (1) biomedicine in relation to the social as well as biological nature of health and well-being; and (2) conventional public health in relation to the social construction of health within and across borders and health systems. In each case, I suggest that challenging accepted truths in different disciplines, and in turn in the political economy of global health, have dramatic implications for not just theory but informing different strategies for advancing health (and social) justice through rights in practice.

7. Food, education, health, housing, and work

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Clapham
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Food Education ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health And Well Being

‘Human rights’ covers not only civil and political rights such as freedom from torture, slavery, and arbitrary detention, but also economic, social, and cultural rights. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for their health and well-being and the right to security. ‘Food, education, health, housing, and work’ considers these rights in turn, examining their place in a wider view of human rights, and the appropriate mechanisms for their enforcement. A main concern is that economic and social policy is best determined by policy makers who are democratically accountable, and not by unelected judges with no specialized knowledge of how to prioritize the distribution of limited resources.

scholarly journals Introduction: Global Health and Human Rights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gostin Lawrence O ◽  
Meier Benjamin Mason
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Normative Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Health And Well Being

This introductory chapter seeks to define the relationship between global health and human rights and examine the evolving field of health and human rights. Global health and human rights are complementary approaches to defining and advancing human health and well-being. Where global health prioritizes the improvement of public health and health equity for all people, human rights provide a legal foundation to advance justice in global health—elaborating the rights and freedoms that are necessary for human dignity. The inextricable linkages between global health and human rights have given rise to the development of the interdisciplinary field of “health and human rights.” In providing an academic foundation for the field, it will be necessary to understand the normative development, policy implementation, contemporary application, and new challenges at the intersection of global health and human rights. This critical engagement provides hope in responding to current threats.

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