El derecho internacional, instrumento esencial para la promoción de la salud mental en las Américas

Jiménez, Heidi V.; Vásquez, Javier

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“…56 As PASB technical officers worked programmatically with human rights lawyers to improve care for mental illness, address determinants of mental health, and reform legislation for health systems, the mental health unit became a principal champion for a "non-traditional approach to health" -a rights-based approach to health. 57 These select human rights efforts through the Bureau's legal office -expanding in the 1990s to include indigenous rights, child health, violence against women, and access to medicines -would create a model for incorporating rights across the organization. 58 While the WHO Secretariat and other WHO regional offices had principally employed human rights rhetorically, with rights serving only as a catchphrase to describe all their public health efforts, PAHO was beginning to analyze health policies, plans, and laws under human rights standards and to employ PASB officers to mainstream human rights principles throughout PAHO policies and programs.…”

Section: B Bringing Human Rights Into Paho Governancementioning

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The Pan American Health Organization and the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance

Meier¹,

Ayala

2014

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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In the absence of centralized human rights leadership in an increasingly fragmented global health policy landscape, regional health offices have stepped forward to advance the rights-based approach to health. Reviewing the efforts of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), this article explores the evolution of human rights in PAHO policy, assesses efforts to mainstream human rights in the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), and analyzes the future of the rights-based approach through regional health governance, providing lessons for other regional health offices and global health institutions. This article explores PAHO's 15-year effort to mainstream human rights through PASB technical units, national capacity-building, the Inter-American human rights system, and the PAHO Directing Council. Through documentary analysis of PAHO policies and semi-structured interviews with key PASB stakeholders, the authors analyze the understandings and actions of policymakers and technical officers in implementing human rights through PAHO governance. Analyzing the themes arising from this narrative, the authors examine the structural role of secretariat leadership, state support, legal expertise, and technical unit commitment in facilitating a rights-based approach to the health in the Americas. Human rights are increasingly framing PAHO efforts, and this analysis of the structures underlying PAHO's approach provides an understanding of the institutional determinants of the rights-based approach to health, highlighting generalizable themes for the mainstreaming of human rights through regional health governance. With this regional-level understanding of health governance, future national-level research can begin to understand the causal forces linking regional human rights work with national policy reforms and public health outcomes.

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Section: B Bringing Human Rights Into Paho Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

The Pan American Health Organization and the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance

Meier¹,

Ayala

2014

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Psychiatry and human rights in Latin America: Ethical dilemmas and the future

Lolas¹

2010

International Review of Psychiatry

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This paper addresses the context in which ethical and human right issues as they pertain to psychiatry are discussed in Latin America. Dependency and institutional instability are singled out as pervading characteristics influencing the analysis of issues and the design of mental health policies. According to the landmark 1990 Declaration of Caracas all countries in the region have progressed towards implementing measures designed to improve the condition of the populations regarding mental health care and research. Several principles are now universally accepted and, while there is still room for improvement, provision of services and better contexts for scientific development make it possible to expect advances in the future.

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El derecho internacional, instrumento esencial para la promoción de la salud mental en las Américas

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The Pan American Health Organization and the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance

The Pan American Health Organization and the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance

Psychiatry and human rights in Latin America: Ethical dilemmas and the future

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