The Right to Health A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practic
With a Foreword by Paul Hunt, University of Essex, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2002-2008)“The key challenge confronting the health and human rights movement is the translation of international and national human rights law into operation
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Brigit Toebes Rhonda Ferguson Milan M. Markovic Obiajulu Nnamuchi Editors
The Right to Health
Brigit Toebes Rhonda Ferguson Milan M. Markovic Obiajulu Nnamuchi •
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Editors
Zlatka Koleva Assistant Editor
The Right to Health A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practice
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Editors Brigit Toebes Faculty of Law, Constitutional and International Law University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
Milan M. Markovic Institute of International Law University of Graz Graz Austria and
Rhonda Ferguson Law Irish Centre for Human Rights Galway Ireland
Institute of Social Sciences Belgrade Serbia Obiajulu Nnamuchi Faculty of Law, Dept. of Public and Private Law University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus Enugu Nigeria
ISBN 978-94-6265-013-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-6265-014-5
ISBN 978-94-6265-014-5
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014942052 Ó T.M.C.
ASSER PRESS
and the authors 2014
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Foreword
The key challenge confronting the health and human rights movement is the translation of international and national human rights law into operational policies, programmes and other health-related interventions. Nowhere is this more challenging—and more important—than within countries. How can the right to the highest attainable standard of health (‘the right to health’) shape national policies? Does the right to health require that a national hospital—or a district health system—be organized differently? If so, what changes are needed? Does this human right demand that a country give more attention to community-level health promotion, for example via radio messages, poster campaigns, street theatre or primary education? Does it mean that the government has an obligation to regulate the sugar content of children’s beverages? Does the right to health require the government to improve access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for rural communities and, if so, how can this be done within a finite budget? This is just a tiny sample of the challenging questions facing those who wish to operationalise the right to health—and other health-related rights—in communities, districts and at nati
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