Advancing Health Rights in a Globalized World: Responding to Globalization through a Collective Human Right to Public Health

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Mason Meier
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health Rights ◽  
Globalized World

In confronting the insalubrious ramifications of globalization, human rights scholars and activists have argued for greater national and international responsibility pursuant to the human right to health. Codified seminally in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the right to health proclaims that states bear an obligation to realize the “highest attainable standard” of health for all. However, in pressing for the highest attainable standard for each individual, the right to health has been ineffective in compelling states to address burgeoning inequalities in underlying determinants of health, focusing on individual medical treatments at the expense of public health systems. This article contends that the paradigm of individual health, focused on a right to individual medical care, is incapable of responding to health inequities in a globalized world and thereby hampers efforts to operationalize health rights through public health systems. While the right to health has evolved in international discourse over time, this evolution of the individual right to health cannot address the harmful societal ramifications of economic globalization. Rather than relying solely upon an individual right to medical care, envisioning a collective right to public health – a right applied at the societal level to address underlying determinants of health – would alleviate many of the injurious health inequities of globalization.

scholarly journals Competing health policies: insurance against universal public systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asa Ebba Cristina Laurell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
Good Medicine ◽  
The Right ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Universal Health

Objectives: This article analyzes the content and outcome of ongoing health reforms in Latin America: Universal Health Coverage with Health Insurance, and the Universal and Public Health Systems. It aims to compare and contrast the conceptual framework and practice of each and verify their concrete results regarding the guarantee of the right to health and access to required services. It identifies a direct relationship between the development model and the type of reform. The neoclassical-neoliberal model has succeeded in converting health into a field of privatized profits, but has failed to guarantee the right to health and access to services, which has discredited the governments. The reform of the progressive governments has succeeded in expanding access to services and ensuring the right to health, but faces difficulties and tensions related to the permanence of a powerful, private, industrial-insurance medical complex and persistence of the ideologies about medicalized 'good medicine'. Based on these findings, some strategies to strengthen unique and supportive public health systems are proposed.

Challenges to Transforming Unconventional Social Media Data into Actionable Knowledge for Public Health Systems During Disasters

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Chan ◽  
Hemant Purohit
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACTEvery year, there are larger and more severe disasters and health organizations are struggling to respond with services to keep public health systems running. Making decisions with limited health information can negatively affect response activities and impact morbidity and mortality. An overarching challenge is getting the right health information to the right health service personnel at the right time. As responding agencies engage in social media (eg, Twitter, Facebook) to communicate with the public, new opportunities emerge to leverage this non-traditional information for improved situational awareness. Transforming these big data is dependent on computers to process and filter content for health information categories relevant to health responders. To enable a more health-focused approach to social media analysis during disasters, 2 major research challenges should be addressed: (1) advancing methodologies to extract relevant information for health services and creating dynamic knowledge bases that address both the global and US disaster contexts, and (2) expanding social media research for disaster informatics to focus on health response activities. There is a lack of attention on health-focused social media research beyond epidemiologic surveillance. Future research will require approaches that address challenges of domain-aware, including multilingual language understanding in artificial intelligence for disaster health information extraction. New research will need to focus on the primary goal of health providers, whose priority is to get the right health information to the right medical and public health service personnel at the right time.

The Right to Health in Relation to Human Rights

LAW REVIEW ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health Rights

Laws are an essential tool for improving public health capacity and thus for their public health outcomes. Effective responses to emerging threats and the attainment of public health goals require that the International world, States, their governments and partner organizations be legally prepared. Public health law focuses on the nexus between law, public health and the legal tools applicable to public health issues. The second part of the research paper attempts to analysis of the existing National and International guidelines, and Legislations in relation to health policy of India and access the need for a rights sensitive legislation. Third part of the research papers explores the judicial contribution in establishing right to health as basic human rights. Fourth part compares Indian health rights with some other countries. Finally the research paper suggests some recommendations that exists for a contemporary framework with proper implementation to address this issue

On the Content of the Human Right to Affordable and Quality Medical Care in the Russian Constitution, Federal Legislation, and Constitutions (Charters) of the Subjects of the Russian Federation

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Russian Constitution ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Quality Medical Care

The article discusses the issues of constitutional-law and special legal regulation of the human right to health and affordable and quality medical care. It is shown how this right is stipulated by constitutions and charters of subjects of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Constitution of Russia. Whereas the Constitution providing the right to health does not prescribe that medical care should be «affordable» and «quality», the author believes that these attributes are intrinsic to medical care because it is only affordable and quality medical care that is a guarantee of realization of the right to health. Health is considered by the author as a prerequisite of using other rights and freedoms. Using the comparative-law methodology, the author analyzes constitutions and charters of constituent entities of the RF and concludes that less than a half of them have provisions concerning the right to health protection and medical care. At the same time, under Constitution protection of human rights shall be within the joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and constituent units. It is emphasized that the special role in protection of the human right to health on the sub-federal level belongs to regional constitutional (charter) courts, some examples from their practice are given.

scholarly journals Lessons in Public Health Leadership

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Latif
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
Health Leadership ◽  
Public Health Challenges ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Systems Leadership ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Public Health Leadership

Abstract Background The UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is a world leader in developing a dynamic competency-based curriculum and delivering high quality training and professional development of a multidisciplinary public health specialist workforce in the UK. This includes capacity building and shaping tomorrow's public health leaders. Objectives Strong Leadership is increasingly the need of the day to deal with the complex public health challenges in a rapidly evolving and shifting global landscape. Can a public health curriculum and training (like that of the FPH) provide the framework for the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours required for producing world class public health systems leaders? Body of the session Key principles of developing systems leadership include providing an enabling environment, developing the right skill mix, acquiring relevant knowledge, framing placements with experienced supervision and appropriate coaching and mentoring are some of the elements built into the training opportunities for public health registrars, their supervisors and new consultants. This presentation will give an overview of some lessons in public health leadership, the skills and knowledge base required to perform effectively as a public health systems leader and explore some of the challenges faced by the world of public health. The panel will encourage interactive discussion to share the learning from other countries and systems required to develop the next generation of public health leaders. Conclusions Public health, of all specialties, lends itself best to lead across and beyond organisational boundaries, lead without authority and create change whilst not being in charge. It is imperative that systems are put in place to train, develop and build public health leaders for tomorrow.

scholarly journals Political, Historical and Social Features of the Human Right to Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 554-561
Author(s):  
Luis Henrique Almeida Castro ◽  
Cristiane Martins Viegas de Oliveira ◽  
Diego Bezerra de Souza ◽  
Geanlucas Mendes Monteiro ◽  
Gildiney Penaves de Alencar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Right ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Right Of Access

The consecration of the right to physical and mental integrity at the time of the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1946 and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN) in 1948 established the human right of access to health. Conversely, the practical guarantee of this right has gone through many nuances since then, so that today the process of its implementation is closely related to the political, historical and social aspects of each country, demanding from the administrative power an interdisciplinary look for this issue. The problem that involves this conjuncture drives the researchers of this field to question themselves: what is the role of the State in this right? What is the performance of health professionals in fact? Is it possible to achieve the universality of human rights in an economically and culturally globalized world? In the light of the above, this narrative review aimed to collect in the literature the scenarios that permeate this reality providing tacit examples of how the human right to health is shaped according to the conjunctures of insertion of each community that tries to implement it

scholarly journals Covid-19 Vaccination as Part of The Basic Right to Health, Should it be Mandatory During The Covid-19 Pandemic

SASI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 423
Author(s):  
Lefri Mikhael
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Vaccination Policy ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

The 2019 Coronavirus disease virus that shocked the world at the beginning of 2020 as a pandemic had consequences for several sectors of life, especially human health. Health as a fundamental human right that is owned by every human being needs to be considered during the Pandemic. Various efforts have been made by the Government to deal with this situation, one of them is the Covid-19 vaccination. Then, the question is whether the vaccination is optional or mandatory. The research carried out is a normative juridical research with a conceptual approach and a statutory approach related to the Covid-19 vaccination policy and the collection of legal materials obtained through a literature study. In summary, this article explains that the Covid-19 vaccination is part of the fulfillment of the right to health during the Pandemic and it can be said as an obligation for those who are prioritized as vaccine recipients, with the main reason of achieving public health.

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