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Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights (Paperback)
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Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights (Paperback)
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This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health
and healthcare from a human rights perspective. The volume is based
on a particular conceptual reasoning that balances critical
thinking and pragmatism in the context of a universal right to
health. Thus, the primary focus of the book is the relationship or
contrast between rights-based discourse/jurisprudential arguments
and real-life healthcare contexts. The work sets out the
constraints that are imposed on a universal right to health by
practical realities such as economic hardship in countries, lack of
appropriate governance, and lack of support for the implementation
of this right through appropriate resource allocation. It queries
the degree to which the existence of this legally enshrined right
and its application in instruments such as the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be more than an
ephemeral aspiration but can, actually, sustain, promote, and
instil good practice. It further asks if social reality and the
inequalities that present themselves therein impede the
implementation of laudable human rights, particularly within
marginalised communities and cadres of people. It deliberates on
what states and global bodies do, or could do, in practical terms
to ensure that such rights are moved beyond the aspirational and
become attainable and implementable. Divided into three parts, the
first analyses the notion of a universal inalienable right to
health(care) from jurisprudential, anthropological, legal, and
ethical perspectives. The second part considers the translation of
international human rights norms into specific jurisdictional
healthcare contexts. With a global perspective it includes
countries with very different legal, economic, and social contexts.
Finally, the third part summarises the lessons learnt and provides
a pathway for future action. The book will be an invaluable
resource for students, academics, and policymakers working in the
areas of health law and policy, and international human rights law.
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