Advancing Health Rights in a Globalized World: Responding to Globalization through a Collective Human Right to Public Health

Meier, Benjamin Mason

doi:10.1111/j.1748-720x.2007.00179.x

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“…In addition, social justice requires the fair distribution of resources, the preservation of human dignity, and the showing of equal respect for the interests of all members of the community [59, 60]. The standard of human rights requires governments to recognize the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health [60, 61]. …”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluating the Impact of Immigration Policies on Health Status Among Undocumented Immigrants: A Systematic Review

Martínez

Sandfort

et al. 2013

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Over the past two decades, new anti-immigration policies and laws have emerged to address the migration of undocumented immigrants. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to assess and understand how these immigration policies and laws may affect both access to health services and health outcomes among undocumented immigrants. Eight databases were used to conduct this review, which returned 325 papers that were assessed for validity based on specified inclusion criteria. Forty critically appraised articles were selected for analysis; thirty articles related to access to health services, and ten related to health outcomes. The articles showed a direct relationship between anti-immigration policies and their effects on access to health services. In addition, as a result of these policies, undocumented immigrants were impacted by mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Action items were presented, including the promotion of cultural diversity training and the development of innovative strategies to support safety-net health care facilities serving vulnerable populations.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the Impact of Immigration Policies on Health Status Among Undocumented Immigrants: A Systematic Review

Martínez

Sandfort

et al. 2013

J Immigrant Minority Health

405

339

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“…It is also leading some human rights activists to urge prioritisation amongst rights, giving more weight to those which, while still applied to individuals, obligates states to act in ways that benefit larger collectives (as in the right to health) or to meet the needs of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable. Others are urging the importance of building upon General Comment 14 to create a full-blown collective right to public health (Meier 2007).…”

Section: Health As Human Rightmentioning

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Global health in public policy: finding the right frame?

Labonté

2008

Critical Public Health

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One of health promotion's major contributions has been its discursive challenge to biomedical and even behavioural models of health and illness. The concept of social determinants of health is now widely accepted by health authorities in many parts of the world. When health promoters focus on these determinants, however, it is often at local or national scales. Contemporary globalisation demands a more critical appraisal of how many health problems have become inherently global in cause and consequence. In making such an appraisal, it is helpful to consider how global health is presently being framed to determine which arguments are most likely to be health-promoting for the greatest number. This article reviews five such frames: health as security, as development, as global public good, as commodity, and as human right. Most offer some useful argumentation to health promotion, although the rights-based frame, when supported by ethical reasoning (a moral voice), is the most consistent with health promotion's more empowering roots.

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“…66 However, bounded by the disciplinary constraints of medicine, the resource constraints of the principle of progressive realization, and the individualistic constraints of the human rights regime, the right to health has remained normatively incapable of speaking to neoliberal development policy's denigration of social determinants of health. 67 Belying the lofty language of 'the highest attainable standard of health' in the ICESCR, the right to health has been advanced as an individual right, focusing on individual access to health services at the expense of collective health promotion and disease prevention programs through public health systems. 68 Despite recent attempts to expand the normative content of the right to health through General Comment 14 to the ICESCR, 69 seeking to interpret the individual right to health to encompass social determinants of health, the expansive language of General Comment 14 is insufficient to establish a collective right to public health systems under the ICESCR.…”

Section: Limitations Of An Individual Right To Health As a Rights-basmentioning

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Health as Freedom: Addressing Social Determinants of Global Health Inequities Through the Human Right to Development

Fox

Meier

2009

Bioethics

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In spite of vast global improvements in living standards, health, and well-being, the persistence of absolute poverty and its attendant maladies remains an unsettling fact of life for billions around the world and constitutes the primary cause for the failure of developing states to improve the health of their peoples. While economic development in developing countries is necessary to provide for underlying determinants of health--most prominently, poverty reduction and the building of comprehensive primary health systems--inequalities in power within the international economic order and the spread of neoliberal development policy limit the ability of developing states to develop economically and realize public goods for health. With neoliberal development policies impacting entire societies, the collective right to development, as compared with an individual rights-based approach to development, offers a framework by which to restructure this system to realize social determinants of health. The right to development, working through a vector of rights, can address social determinants of health, obligating states and the international community to support public health systems while reducing inequities in health through poverty-reducing economic growth. At an international level, where the ability of states to develop economically and to realize public goods through public health systems is constrained by international financial institutions, the implementation of the right to development enables a restructuring of international institutions and foreign-aid programs, allowing states to enter development debates with a right to cooperation from other states, not simply a cry for charity.

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Advancing Health Rights in a Globalized World: Responding to Globalization through a Collective Human Right to Public Health

Cited by 48 publications

References 36 publications

Evaluating the Impact of Immigration Policies on Health Status Among Undocumented Immigrants: A Systematic Review

Evaluating the Impact of Immigration Policies on Health Status Among Undocumented Immigrants: A Systematic Review

Global health in public policy: finding the right frame?

Health as Freedom: Addressing Social Determinants of Global Health Inequities Through the Human Right to Development

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