Imagining Global Health with Justice: In Defense of the Right to Health

Abstract

The singular message in Global Health Law is that we must strive to achieve global health with justice-improved population health, with a fairer distribution of benefits of good health. Global health entails ensuring the conditions of good health-public health, universal health coverage, and the social determinants of health-while justice requires closing today's vast domestic and global health inequities. These conditions for good health should be incorporated into public policy, supplemented by specific actions to overcome barriers to equity.

Using Concept Mapping to Develop a Human Rights Based Indicator Framework to Assess Country Efforts to Strengthen Rehabilitation Provision and Policy: The Rehabilitation System Diagnosis and Dialogue (RESYST) Framework

“…For example the relationship between "legal commitments" and "strategic priorities" is not simply linguistic but reflects the interaction among the elements of the framework within this cluster (indicators) -how one affects the others and is in turn affected by them, which is what converts these elements into a unified whole. [46] Specifically, the Legal Commitments and Strategic Priorities cluster underlines the obligation of States to incorporate the key provisions of the CRPD in domestic legislation [67] (Indicators #103, #20, #79, #14, #15, #56, #81) as a crucial means in realizing the right to health of PWD [68] and strengthening health systems [69,70] and suggests that national priorities in the context of SGDs (Indicators #17, #66, #39) be informed by the international human rights standards, a view that is shared widely among leading commentators and global health experts [71][72][73]. A similar interpretation can occur across other clusters of indicators allowing an in depth examination of systemic issues pertaining to rehabilitation service delivery, financing and workforce planning.…”

The application of bioethics as legal basis in judicial sentences concerning right to health in Brazil

“…The right to health is an undeniable aspect of human existence that is inexorably intertwined with the concepts of life, dignity, and freedom (1)(2)(3). It encompasses an array of complex individual rights as well as social entitlements that facilitate access to essential services for preventing illness, promoting wellness, safeguarding against harm, and facilitating recovery from sickness (2,(4)(5)(6).…”

“…The definition of access to healthcare encompasses various aspects such as availability, accessibility, acceptability and resolution. The provision of guaranteed access to healthcare is pivotal in achieving equitable outcomes (4,5,(7)(8)(9). In this regard, bioethics and health law assume a critical role in enabling universal access to quality healthcare services for all individuals.…”

“…Judges must make decisions based on fairness and justice, taking into account ethical principles (4,9,11,(19)(20)(21) and relevant factors such as scientific evidence, cost-effectiveness, indications and contraindications of therapeutics (15,18,22). The use of bioethics provides a valuable methodology for judges to ensure their decisions are legally sound and ethically appropriate (1,8,17,23,24).…”

From local adaptation to activism and global solidarity: framing a research and innovation agenda towards true health equity

“…Momentum grows for the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH), the proposed treaty based on the right to health aimed at achieving equity [ 1 , 2 ]. The focus on a legal instrument as a means towards health equity reflects the great deal we already know about how to improve health equity, both strategies within the health system and beyond, including the power of law.…”