In their hypothesis published in IJHPM, Lisa Forman and colleagues examined the prominence of the right to health and … sexual and reproductive health rights (as well as related language) in four of the key reports that fed into the process of …. I argue that sexual and reproductive health rights are relatively well-covered within the SDGs. In terms of the right to …

Today, nation-states are struggling to maintain public health insurance coverage and public health protections. Even … developed countries with generous programs are reviewing commitments toward health. For many developing countries, meeting the … health care needs of their populations is beyond reach. The international human right to health is a useful tool to sort out …

, publicly financed health care system. The state is on course for implementing a single payer system by 2017. This first … breakthrough in the decades-long struggle for universal health care in the United States — after thwarted or pared down federal … efforts by the Clinton and Obama administrations — alters the landscape of health reform advocacy in this country and has the …

This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …

important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its … interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be diminishing. This article reports on a thematic analysis of key Canadian … the interstices of Canadian health and foreign policy. It finds that health is primarily and increasingly framed in …

health coverage (UHC) is now one of the most prominent global health policies. As countries progress towards UHC, they are … forced to make difficult choices about how to prioritise health issues and expenditure: which services to expand first, whom … literature on the ethics of priority setting in health care, a 2014 WHO report provided guidance about how states can resolve …

involvement in the Irish health care system. It is argued that such a policy development is likely to conflict the states … international human rights obligations, in particular the right to health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and … Cultural Rights, as greater privatisation tends towards the availability of access to health care on a discriminatory manner …

This paper seeks to advance human rights scholarship by locating the right to health within the broader frameworks of … state of health and wellbeing of Africans despite an extant robust regional human rights regime that explicitly proclaims … health as a human right. First, there is lack of access to health services – the result of spiraling and crippling poverty …

The core message of this chapter is as follows: we need to take Larry Gostin’s Global Health Law seriously. We need to … international human rights law in particular. In larger part Global Health Law needs to be taken seriously because it will have …. I conclude that Global Health Law ought to be seen as a mischief-maker, both because it promotes a dated and damaging …

societal diversity for health, quality-of-life and well-being, in both Africa and Europe. The present volume offers an … interdisciplinary and international look at the relationship between refugees, diversity, and health, including health care policies …