[afro-nets] History, principles, and practice of health and human rights

["Claudio Schuftan" <cschuftan@phmovement.org>]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) ruglucia@paho.org
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Series, Health and Human Rights

Do human rights matter to health?
Jerome Amir Singh, Michelle Govender and Edward J Mills
The Lancet, Volume 370, Number 9586, 11 August 2007

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607612367/fulltext

Legal instruments and litigation as a way to enforce the rights to life and to health is a relatively new strategy that is increasingly common. We show how legal measures have been used to attain health and human rights with case examples from India and South Africa that resulted in large public-health benefits.

This is the second in a Series of four papers about health and human rights

History, principles, and practice of health and human rights
Sofia Gruskin,  Edward J Mills and  Daniel Tarantola
The Lancet, Volume 370, Number 9585, 4 August 2007

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607612008/fulltext

Individuals and populations suffer violations of their rights that affect health and wellbeing. Health professionals have a part to play in reduction and prevention of these violations and ensuring that health-related policies and practices promote rights. This needs efforts in terms of advocacy, application of legal standards, and public-health programming. We discuss the changing views of human rights in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and propose further development of the right to health by increased practice, evidence, and action.

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Claudio Schuftan
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