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The right to public health [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 2016
Abstract This chapter reframes the project of public health within a rights framework. It argues that there is a right to health, and this entails that individuals have a right to public health. Given that there is a right to public health, the state should undertake to reduce health risks.
Wilson, JGS
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Right to Health

2021
The right to health refers to everyone enjoying the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. This right is not new in that it was already mentioned as a fundamental right in the constitution of the WHO in 1946. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights also mentioned health as part of the right to an adequate standard of living ...
Henk ten Have   +1 more
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The Right to Health

NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2003
Does the global trading system operate to the detriment of human rights? Some people think so. Many argue that trade policy interferes with a nation's capacity to develop its own human rights policies in the areas of health, nutrition, and medical services.
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The Right to Health

European Journal of Health Law, 1994
Abstract The UN Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is seeking to break new grounds to enhance worldwide compliance with the right to health. At its ninth session (Geneva, 22 November - 10 December 1993) the Committee convened a 'general day of discussion' to explore various aspects of this right.
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