Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health
The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies allow us to imagine a new future for the U.S. health care system.
Right to Health
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Read more: Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights? Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?
Despite the value of a constitutionally enshrined right to health, such a guarantee, on its own, does not ensure patient rights.
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Read more: Searching for Environmental Justice in Argentina: Revisiting the Reality of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin Case after Fifteen Years Searching for Environmental Justice in Argentina: Revisiting the Reality of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin Case after Fifteen Years
The population living in areas surrounding the river basin continue to be exposed to historically-rooted injustices.
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Read more: Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers
The Petrie-Flom Center is welcoming four new affiliated researchers to the Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP).
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Read more: The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform
The various proposals all have the goal of encouraging early reporting of, and response to, potentially serious disease outbreaks.
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Read more: The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned
We argue that the human right to participation should extend to permanent seats and votes for civil society and affected communities on governance boards.
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Read more: Killing Locally or Killing Globally? Inequalities in Framing Cooperation Through Pandemics Killing Locally or Killing Globally? Inequalities in Framing Cooperation Through Pandemics
The international community must avoid entrenching in international law a system indifferent to right-to-health core obligations.
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Read more: Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now
Health systems that lack universality and inclusivity will always fall short on disease surveillance, detection, and response.
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Read more: Regulation of Access to Clinical Data in Chile’s New Constitution Regulation of Access to Clinical Data in Chile’s New Constitution
Among several important themes, the need to regulate the access to clinical data of patients, also called “interoperability,” arises as a major one.
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Read more: Chile’s New Constitution, the Right to Health, and Health System Reforms Chile’s New Constitution, the Right to Health, and Health System Reforms
The need to align the constitutional process with long-postponed structural reforms to the health system has become evident in Chile.
