| The health and human rights movement: progress and obstacles. | |
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PMID: 18575172 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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There is a new maturity about the health and human rights movement as it endeavours to integrate human rights into health policies at the national and international levels. In addition to the traditional human rights techniques, such as "naming and shaming", the movement is also using new approaches such as indicators, benchmarks and impact assessments. However, it is confronted with a range of major obstacles and this article focuses on two of them: the inadequate engagement within the health and human rights movement of (i) established human rights non-governmental organisations and (ii) health professionals. This article argues that established human rights non-governmental organisations should work on health and human rights issues, such as maternal mortality, just as vigorously as they already campaign on disappearances, torture and prisoners of conscience. Also, it emphasises that health and human rights complement and reinforce each other. Nevertheless, many health professionals have never heard of the right to the highest attainable standard of health. The article argues that there is no chance of operationalising the right to health without the active engagement of many more health professionals, and it makes some preliminary observations about steps that might be taken to deepen health professionals' engagement in the health and human rights movement. |
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Authors:
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Paul Hunt |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of law and medicine Volume: 15 ISSN: 1320-159X ISO Abbreviation: J Law Med Publication Date: 2008 May |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-06-25 Completed Date: 2008-08-22 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9431853 Medline TA: J Law Med Country: Australia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 714-24 Citation Subset: IM |
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Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom. |
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Human Rights* Humans Public Health* Societies |
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