The Right to Health Under International Law and Its Relevance to the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11024253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alicia Ely Yamin (0000-0002-5801-8946, The author is with the Harvard School of Public Health and is a human rights attorney who at the time of writing was working with nongovernmental organizations in Latin America., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1156-1161 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2004.055111 |
| PMID | 15933233 |
| PMCID | PMC1449334 |
| OpenAlex | W2020963416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 14 |
In recent years, there have been considerable developments in international law with respect to the normative definition of the right to health, which includes both health care and healthy conditions. These norms offer a framework that shifts the analysis of issues such as disparities in treatment from questions of quality of care to matters of social justice. Building on work in social epidemiology, a rights paradigm explicitly links health with laws, policies, and practices that sustain a functional democracy and focuses on accountability. In the United States, framing a well-documented problem such as health disparities as a “rights violation” attaches shame and blame to governmental neglect. Further, international law offers standards for evaluating governmental conduct as well as mechanisms for establishing some degree of accountability
Accountability · Blame · Framing (construction) · Health care · Human rights · International law · Neglect · Normative · Political science · Public health · Right to health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.58 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |