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Human rights are essential to global health, yet rising threats in
an increasingly divided world are challenging the progressive
evolution of health-related human rights. It is necessary to
empower a new generation of scholars, advocates, and practitioners
to sustain the global commitment to universal rights in public
health. Looking to the next generation to face the struggles ahead,
this book provides a detailed understanding of the evolving
relationship between global health and human rights, laying a human
rights foundation for the advancement of transformative health
policies, programs, and practices. International human rights law
has been repeatedly shown to advance health and wellbeing -
empowering communities and fostering accountability for realizing
the highest attainable standard of health. This book provides a
compelling examination of international human rights as essential
for advancing public health. It demonstrates how human rights
strengthens human autonomy and dignity, while placing clear
responsibilities on government to safeguard the public's health and
safety. Bringing together leading academics in the field of health
and human rights, this volume: (1) explains the norms and
principles that define the field, (2) examines the methods and
tools for implementing human rights to promote health, (3) applies
essential human rights to leading public health threats, and (4)
analyzes rising human rights challenges in a rapidly globalizing
world. This foundational text shows why interdisciplinary
scholarship and action are essential for health-related human
rights, placing human rights at the center of public health and
securing a future of global health with justice.
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.
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