The Challenge and Place of International Human Rights in Public Health

Easley, Cheryl E.; Marks, Stephen P.; Morgan, Russell E.

doi:10.2105/ajph.91.12.1922

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“…De allí que, el considerar a los derechos humanos simplemente como un grupo más de principios de ética o guías para una atención con calidad, sería una completo error entender la concepción de la dimensión de los derechos 33,34 .…”

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“…Easley et al 34 En Perú, por ejemplo, CLADEM buscó que se compensen a familias de las víctimas, así como el establecimiento de precedentes legales de responsabilidad institucional. Junto con otros grupos de derechos humanos CLADEM peleó por un caso emblemático, en el que una mujer fue forzada a un procedimiento de esterilización, falleciendo poco después.…”

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¿Políticas de salud y salud politizada? Un análisis de las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva en Perú desde la perspectiva de la ética médica, calidad de atención y derechos humanos

Miranda

Yamin²

2008

Cad. Saúde Pública

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La ética médica es considerada entre los profesionales de salud como la disciplina que proporciona las bases para brindar una atención adecuada a los pacientes. En los últimos años, los conceptos de calidad de atención y derechos humanos - así como sus diversos discursos acompañantes - se han sumado al concepto de ética médica entre los paradigmas a tener en cuenta en la atención de las personas, tanto a nivel individual, así como a nivel de políticas de salud. El presente trabajo busca analizar tales paradigmas, utilizando como estudio de caso las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva que se dieron en Perú en los últimos 10 años.

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¿Políticas de salud y salud politizada? Un análisis de las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva en Perú desde la perspectiva de la ética médica, calidad de atención y derechos humanos

Miranda

Yamin²

2008

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“…Health policies and programmes may impact positively or negatively on individual and/or group rights and human rights infringements or enhancements can affect health. Ways in which this reciprocal relationship can be manifest are documented in a number of studies as are the benefits associated with adopting a human rights approach to health (see, for example, Caspi-Yavin & Mollica, 1991;Du Guerny & Sjoberg, 1993;Chapman, 1994;Mann, Gruskin, Grodin, & Annas, 2000;Easley, Marks, & Morgan, 2001;Gruskin & Tarantola, 2001;Haigh, 2004). Thus, a human rights approach:…”

Section: Background: the Relationship Between Human Rights And Healthmentioning

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Facilitating interprofessional learning about human rights in public health contexts: Challenges and strategies

Haigh

2007

Journal of Interprofessional Care

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Occasions when public health practitioners engage in professional learning increasingly involve them in encounters with (a) concepts that originate from unfamiliar disciplines and that may be multidisciplinary, complex and sometimes contested, (b) colleagues who have different discipline and profession backgrounds, and (c) modes of learning and teaching that are unfamiliar. While these factors can enhance both the processes and products of learning, they can also present significant challenges when those learning occasions are designed and facilitated. Drawing on our own reflected-on experience of working in such contexts and a body of related literature, we elaborate on these interrelated challenges and propose three strategies that can help address them. The strategies entail encouragement and support for establishing common commitments and values, perspective-taking and self-reflexivity, conversation and storytelling. Specific examples of challenges and strategies are derived, in particular, from a learning agenda associated with the mainstreaming of a human rights approach to public health. That agenda requires practitioners to understand the concept of human rights, appreciate its relevance for public health work and be capable of integrating a human right perspective into their day-to-day work.

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“…24 Instead of simply seeing health itself as a discrete human right that should be legally or morally enforced, health status is recognised to be both a contributor to and consequence of human rights and their violations. For example, social inequity based on race or gender directly violates several international conventions including the CERD and CEDAW.…”

Section: The Inter-relationship Between Health and Human Rightsmentioning

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Can human rights discourse improve the health of Indigenous Australians?

Gray

Bailie

2006

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: Recognition of the poor health outcomes of Indigenous Australians has led to an interest in using human rights discourse as a framework for arguing that the Australian Government has an international obligation to improve Indigenous health. Method: This paper explores two potential directions for human rights discourse in this context. The first is the development and elaboration of an asserted ‘human right to health’. The second focuses on developing an understanding of the interactions between health and human rights, particularly the underlying social determinants of health, and thereby creating an advocacy framework that could be used to promote the inclusion of human rights considerations into the policy‐making agenda. Results: This paper argues that despite the symbolic force of human rights discourse, its capacity to improve the health of Indigenous Australians through international law is limited. This is so irrespective of whether recourse is made to a legal or moral imperative. Conclusion and Implications: The ‘human right to health’ is limited primarily by several barriers to its implementation, some of which are perpetuated by the current Australian Government itself. Although the potential advocacy capacity of human rights discourse is similarly limited by the hostility of the Government towards the notion of incorporating human rights considerations into its public policy decision making, it does provide a sustainable intellectual framework in which to consider the social and structural determinants of health and maintain these issues on the political agenda.

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The Challenge and Place of International Human Rights in Public Health

Cited by 27 publications

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¿Políticas de salud y salud politizada? Un análisis de las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva en Perú desde la perspectiva de la ética médica, calidad de atención y derechos humanos

¿Políticas de salud y salud politizada? Un análisis de las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva en Perú desde la perspectiva de la ética médica, calidad de atención y derechos humanos

Facilitating interprofessional learning about human rights in public health contexts: Challenges and strategies

Can human rights discourse improve the health of Indigenous Australians?

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