Realizing the right to health requires a strong focus on strengthening health care systems and transforming health systems for women. Taking a human rights approach to health means understanding the underlying social determinants of this right, as well as how to ensure the right to health is realized in times of emergency and armed conflict, and for all groups in society, including migrants and refugees, LGBTI persons, prisoners and detainees, and others. In this third volume of the Swiss Human Rights Book series, leading international experts in human rights and health address issues such as access to essential medicine, HIV/AIDS, trade and health, SARS and malaria, and human rights approaches to other key health challenges. They address the role of governments, non-state actors and healthcare practitioners, the responses of multilateral institutions, and highlight some of the most promising strategies for realizing the right to health.
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- Preface (110 Kb, pdf)
Thomas Greminger
- Foreword: The Right to Health as an Example (128 Kb, pdf)
Georg Kohler
- Introduction (128 Kb, pdf)
Mary Robinson and Andrew Clapham
- The Human Right to Health: Conceptual Foundations (171 Kb, pdf)
Eibe Riedel
- Health Systems and the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (286 Kb, pdf)
Paul Hunt and Gunilla Backman
- Social Determinants of Health from a Rights-Based Approach (232 Kb, pdf)
Barbara Wilson
- Access to Essential Medicines as a Component of the Right to Health (231 Kb, pdf)
Stephen P. Marks
- Advancing a Human Rights Approach on the Global Health Agenda (234 Kb, pdf)
Lisa Oldring and Scott Jerbi
- On the „Rights“ Track: The Importance of a Rights-Based Approach to Reducing Maternal Deaths (145 Kb, pdf)
Helen de Pinho
- Reframing the Right to Health: Legal Advocacy to Advance Women‘s Reproductive Rights (272 Kb, pdf)
Luisa Cabal and Jaime M. Todd-Gher
- Supporting Women Subjected to Sexualized Violence: Health and Human Rights Challenges and Approaches in War and Post-War (428 Kb, pdf)
Aereas Monika Hauser
- The Right to Health in Armed Conflict (152 Kb, pdf)
Pierre Perrin
- The Right to Health in Emergencies: Natural or Man-Made Disasters (185 Kb, pdf)
Obijiofor Aginam
- The Right to Health in Prisons: Implications in a Borderless World (323 Kb, pdf)
Slim Slama, Hans Wolff and Louis Loutan
- „As Full Rehabilitation as Possible“: Torture Survivors and the Right to Care (246 Kb, pdf)
Douglas A. Johnson and Steven H. Miles
- Who Cares? The Right to Health of Migrants (256 Kb, pdf)
Vincent Chetail and Gilles Giacca
- Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Right to Health (175 Kb, pdf)
Claire Mahon
- Mental Health as a Human Right Lance (224 Kb, pdf)
Gable and Lawrence O. Gostin
- A Human Rights-Based Approach to Non-Communicable Diseases (160 Kb, pdf)
Helena Nygren-Krug
- The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Human Rights Responses (178 Kb, pdf)
Mary Crewe
- Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (691 Kb, pdf)
Tido von Schön-Angerer
- The New Global War on Malaria (776 Kb, pdf)
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Raymond G. Chambers
- Bioethics and Genomics (176 Kb, pdf)
George J. Annas
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- Governance and the Response to AIDS: Lessons for Development and Human Rights (238 Kb, pdf)
Peter Piot, Susan Timberlake and Jason Sigurdson
- Human Rights Implications of Governance Responses to Public Health Emergencies: The Case of Major Infectious Disease Outbreaks (271 Kb, pdf)
Gian Luca Burci and Riikka Koskenmäki
- Trade and the Right to Health (183 Kb, pdf)
Sarah Joseph
- Developing Countries and the Promotion of the Right to Health in Multilateral Institutions: A Review of Developments in Trade and Health Institutions (192 Kb, pdf)
Sisule F. Musungu
- Physicians and the Right to Health (268 Kb, pdf)
Leonard S. Rubenstein
- The Voice of Health Professionals in Achieving the Right to Health: The Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA) (469 Kb, pdf)
Uganda Nelson Musoba and Sarah Kalloch
- Drilling Down: Strenghtening Local Health Systems to Address Global Health Crises (158 Kb, pdf)
Lynn P. Freedman
- Building Rights-Based Health Systems: A Focus on the Health Workforce (209 Kb, pdf)
Eric A. Friedman
- Health Worker Migration: Perspectives from an African Health Worker (168 Kb, pdf)
Francis Omaswa
- Human Rights and Aid Effectiveness (232 Kb, pdf)
Rahel Bösch
- The Democratization of Health in Mexico: Extending the Right to Health Care (219 Kb, pdf)
Julio Frenk and Octavio Gomez-Dantés
- Health Care in Canada: Does a Health Care System Based on Shared Values Ensure Respect for the Right to Health? (170 Kb, pdf)
Virginia A. Leary
- Towards a Just and Equitable Society for Realizing the Right to Health: Case Study of Health Action International Asia-Pacific (178 Kb, pdf)
Kumariah Balasubramaniam
- Health and Wellness for All: Mamelani Projects‘ Wellness Programme (211 Kb, pdf)
Carly Tanur and Manmeet K. Bindra
- The Right to Health: A People‘s Health Movement Perspective and Case Study (358 Kb, pdf)
Claudia Schuftan, Laura Turiano and Abhay Shukla
- Global Health Diplomacy: The New Recognition of Health in Foreign Policy (233 Kb, pdf)
Ilona Kickbusch an Christian Erk
- Enforcing the Right to Health: Innovative Lessons from Domestic Courts (215 Kb, pdf)
Iain Byrne
- Public-Private Partnership to Promote Health: The GAVI Alliance Experience (362 Kb, pdf)
Geoff Adlide, Alison Rowe and Julian Lob-Levyt
- Torture by Worms (189 Kb, pdf)
Nicholas D. Kristof
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Edited by the Chair of Political Philosophy of the University of Zurich, Switzerland
On request of the Political Division IV of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Berne
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The views expressed in the essays and interviews are those of the authors and need not concur with the position of the Political Division IV of the FDFA.
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