The Right to Health A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Toebes, Brigit (Editor), Ferguson, Rhonda (Editor), Markovic, Milan M. (Editor), Nnamuchi, Obiajulu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; Public health.; Public international law.; Human rights.; Human Rights.; Public International Law.; Public Health.

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 operational policies, programmes and other health-rel...

Table of Contents:

• Health and Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Deconstructing the Thorny Path to Success
• Ensuring the Realization of the Right to Health through the African Union (AU) System: A Review of its Normative, Policy and Institutional Frameworks
• Equality and the Right to Health: A Preliminary Assessment of China
• The Right to Health in Japan: its implications and challenges
• Codification and implementation of the Right to Health in the Arab World
• The right to health and access to health care in Saudi Arabia with a particular focus on the women and migrants
• The Realization of the Right to Health for Refugees in Jordan
• The Right to Health: the Next American Dream
• The Brazilian Human Rights Indicators System: The Case of the Right to Health
• Aboriginal-specific Health Initiatives and Accessible Health Care in Canada; are goodwill initiatives enough
• The Right to Health in Peru: persistent vulnerabilities in the context of HIV/AIDS
• The Right to Health for Vulnerable and Marginalised Groups: Russia as a Case Study
• The Challenges to Realising the Right to Health in Ireland
• Dutch Realities: Evaluating Dutch Health Care Reform from a Human Rights Perspective.