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Human rights in health systems frameworks: What is there, what is missing and why does it matter?

Posted on January 23, 2012August 21, 2018

Global initiatives and recent G8 commitments to health systems strengthening have brought increased attention to factors affecting health system performance. While equity concerns and human rights language appear often in the... read more →

Equity, Human Rights, and Health: Here, There and Back Again

Posted on January 1, 2011August 21, 2018

"The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival monitors coverage of priority interventions to achieve the child mortality and maternal health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A June 2010 Lancet article su... read more →

Human rights and humanitarian assistance: helping health professionals lead the way in Haiti and beyond

Posted on November 20, 2010August 21, 2018

"As health providers increasingly engage in humanitarian relief we, willingly or not, become subject to global scrutiny for the human rights impacts of our actions. Public health emergencies often take place in areas of soci... read more →

Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Moving Toward Assessment

Posted on September 28, 2010August 21, 2018

The human rights responsibilities of drug companies have been considered for years by nongovernmental organizations, but were most sharply defined in a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, submitted to ... read more →

‘Rights-based approaches’ to health policies and programs: Articulations, ambiguities, and assessment

Posted on July 1, 2010August 21, 2018

Rights-based approaches (RBAs) to health encompass an exciting range of ways that the United Nations, governments, and non-governmental organizations incorporate human rights into public health efforts. By reviewing the acade... read more →

Who, and what, causes health inequities? Reflections on emerging debates from an exploratory Latin American/North American workshop

Posted on June 27, 2010August 21, 2018

Rapidly rising interest - from national and international health organisations, governments, civil society, the private sector and myriad academic disciplines - in what has become known as the ‘social determinants of health... read more →

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Human rights in health systems frameworks: What is there, what is missing and why does it matter?

Equity, Human Rights, and Health: Here, There and Back Again

Human rights and humanitarian assistance: helping health professionals lead the way in Haiti and beyond

Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Moving Toward Assessment

‘Rights-based approaches’ to health policies and programs: Articulations, ambiguities, and assessment

Who, and what, causes health inequities? Reflections on emerging debates from an exploratory Latin American/North American workshop

From Conception to Realization: A Human Right to Health (Letter to the Editor)

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming

Health and Human Rights

Using indicators to determine the contribution of human rights to public health efforts