Accountability for the Health Consequences of Human Rights Violations

Methodological Issues in Determining Compensation

Bibliographic Data

ID12440432
AuthorsMey Akashah (Harvard University, corresponding author), Stephen P Mark (0000-0003-0978-5150)
Year2006
Volume9
Issue2
Pages256-256
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth and Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1079-0969 • E-ISSN: 2150-4113
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4065410
PMID17265763
OpenAlexW6388520
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

The issue of compensation is an under-studied dimension of a rights-based approach to health. The emerging normative framework that allows for compensation of human rights abuses lacks a consistent and transparent methodology for valuing health losses. While methods for assigning monetary values to decreases in health have evolved through health economics, these techniques have developed outside of a human rights framework and do not adequately account for such concerns as fairness and nondiscrimination. These methods may in fact underestimate damages for poor individuals and communities, as well as for those subjected to prolonged abuses. This article will examine the normative foundations for compensation, evaluate methodological shortcomings, and propose a methodology for the valuation of health damages in group settings

Accountability · Business · Compensation (psychology · Damages · Dimension (graph theory · Economics · Environmental health · Human health · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Public economics · Right to health · Sociology · Valuation (finance · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law · Accounting

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