Conceptual and Operational Linkages Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture–recapture analysis

Posted on October 18, 2017August 25, 2018

Official death certificates in the U.S. failed to count more than half of the people killed by police in 2015 -- and the problem of undercounting is especially pronounced in lower-income counties and for deaths that are due t... read more →

Killed by Police: Validity of Media-Based Data and Misclassification of Death Certificates in Massachusetts, 2004–2016

Posted on September 28, 2017August 25, 2018

Professor Sofia Gruskin and co-authors published an article, “Killed by Police: Validity of Media-Based Data and Misclassification of Death Certificates in Massachusetts, 2004–2016,” in the American Journal of Public He... read more →

Using international human rights, norms and standards to strengthen Vietnam’s legal framework on population

Posted on March 7, 2017August 25, 2018

The Program on Global Health & Human Rights and United Nations Population Fund completed a policy paper focused on using international human rights norms to strengthen Vietnam’s legal framework on population. “Using I... read more →

No “Shared Governance” Without Attention to Law, Broadly Conceived

Posted on October 4, 2016August 25, 2018

In this commentary published Sept. 21 in The American Journal of Bioethics, Alexander Capron and Sofia Gruskin call attention to law at the national and international levels as a necessary component of "shared health govern... read more →

Health and Human Rights: Overview

Posted on February 9, 2016August 25, 2018

Human rights add value to the concrete work of public health in myriad ways. Of the institutions and individuals engaged in these efforts some take health as an entry point, others take human rights but no one approach has pr... read more →

Mid-Term Review: Access and Delivery Partnership Project

Posted on January 1, 2016August 25, 2018

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the World Health Organization’s Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR), and PATH are implementing a five-year project (2013-2018) entitled “... read more →

Men’s violence against women and men are inter-related: Recommendations for simultaneous intervention

Posted on October 16, 2015August 21, 2018

Men are more likely than women to perpetrate nearly all types of interpersonal violence (e.g. intimate partner violence, murder, assault, rape). While public health programs target prevention efforts for each type of violence... read more →

World Report on Ageing and Health

Posted on September 30, 2015August 21, 2018

Comprehensive public health action on population ageing is urgently needed. This will require fundamental shifts, not just in the things we do, but in how we think about ageing itself. The World report on ageing and health ou... read more →

Integrating Human Rights in Program Evaluation: Lessons From Law and Health Programs in Kenya

Posted on June 18, 2015August 21, 2018

Methods for assessing both the inclusion and impact of human rights within health program design and implementation are still nascent. We used human rights concepts and methods to evaluate the programs of three Kenyan nongove... read more →

Is the right to health compatible with sustainability?

Posted on June 1, 2015August 21, 2018

"One of the fundamental human rights is the right of every individual to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, which we simplify to ‘HASH’ [1]. The HASH right was first articulated in the preamble to... read more →