The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide

A Global Comparative Study

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ID19922249
AuthorsOscar A Cabrera, Joanna Manning, Anna-Sara Lind (0000-0002-3520-5220), Christopher Newdick, Chris Newdick (0000-0002-3511-5137), Everaldo Lamprea (0000-0002-4904-5758), Alan Gro (0000-0002-8642-882X), A den Exter (0000-0002-0938-6603), Mária Éva Földes (0009-0001-9181-1858), Y Y Brandon Chen (0009-0002-4600-5483), Christina S HO, Lisa Forman (0000-0002-4200-9359), Mariana Mota Prado (0000-0002-5555-8859), Allison K Hoffman, Remigius N Nwabueze (0000-0002-3100-6427), Anand Grover
EditorsColleen M Flood (0009-0006-4502-9554), Aeyal Gross
Year2014
Publication date2014-04-28
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueRight to Health at the Public/Private Divide (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139814768
OpenAlexW593872548
Open LibraryOL34559923M
ISBN9781139814768
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Through a comparative global study of countries from all continents representing a diversity of health, legal, political, and economic systems, this book explores the role of health rights in advancing greater equality through access to health care. Does health care promote equality, or does it in fact advance the opposite result? Does inserting the idea of 'the right to health' into health systems allow the reinsertion of public values into systems that are undergoing privatization? Or does it allow for private claims to be re-articulated as 'rights', in a way that actually reinforces inequality? This volume includes studies from countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands, China, and Nigeria, among many others, and authors with expertise in the legal and health systems of their countries, making this a seminal study that allows readers to see the differing role of rights in various health systems

China · Diversity (politics) · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Health equity · Human rights · Inequality · International health · Political science · Politics · Public health · Right to health · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration · Health · Health Services · Health Services Accessibility · law and legislation · Legislation & jurisprudence · Medical care · Patient Rights · Private Sector · Public Sector · Health Policy

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