Human Rights in Global Health - Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World (Paperback)

Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through global health governance. This volume examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations. To analyze the structural determinants of rights-based governance, the organizations in this volume include those international bureaucracies that implement human rights in ways that influence public health in a globalizing world. This volume brings together leading health and human rights scholars and practitioners from academia, non-governmental organizations, and the United Nations system. They explore the foundations of human rights as a normative framework for global health governance, the mandate of the World Health Organization to pursue a human rights-based approach to health, the role of inter-governmental organizations across a range of health-related human rights, the influence of rights-based economic governance on public health, and the focus on global health among institutions of human rights governance. Contributing chapters each map the distinct human rights efforts within a specific institution of global governance for health. Through the comparative institutional analysis in this volume, the contributing authors examine institutional dynamics to operationalize human rights in organizational policies, programs, and practices and assess institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit human rights mainstreaming for global health advancement.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2018
Editors:	Benjamin Mason Meier (Associate Professor of Global Health Policy)
Authors:	Lawrence O. Gostin (University Professor, Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law)
Foreword by:	Mary Robinson (President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice. Former President of Ireland (1990-1997); United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ()
Dimensions:	234 x 158 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	616
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-067268-3
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > Citizenship & nationality law > General
LSN:	0-19-067268-4
Barcode:	9780190672683

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