3 edition of Right to health. found in the catalog.
Right to health.
Published
2004
by AIDS Law Unit, Legal Assistance Centre in Windhoek
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Contributions | Legal Assistance Centre (Namibia). AIDS Law Unit. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | MLCS 2008/00268 (R) |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | 24 p. : |
Number of Pages | 24 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL22845357M |
LC Control Number | 2008347953 |
In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right. Effective laws and an enabling legal environment are essential to a healthy society. Most public health challenges – from infectious and non-communicable diseases to injuries, from mental illness to universal health coverage – have a legal component. At global, national and local levels, law is a powerful tool for advancing the right to health.
Written by a respected authority on human rights and public health, this book delivers an in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health. The author expertly explores the integration of social determinants into the right to health along with the methodologies and findings of social medicine. Pro 2 Instituting a right to health care could lower the cost of health care in the United States. According to a study from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, under a single-payer system, in which all citizens are guaranteed a right to health care, total public and private health care spending could be lowered by up to $ trillion over the next 10 years due to lowered.
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