Connecting the right to health and anti-extractivism globally
Bibliographic Data
Natural resources are essential to health and are global commons. Recognizing the devastating damage posed by extraction to health and the environment, as well as the erosion of the sovereignty of our governments that have increasingly conceded people's health in the interest of profit and development, is important in framing our resistance. Our communities experience growing displacement, the loss of social services, of land, water and livelihood, heightened militarization, violence and repression, and increased incidence of communicable diseases and health problems resulting from exposure to toxics. All of these are linked to an extractivist project driven by global financial capital promoting an unsustainable and inequitable development model that threatens people's health and the health of the planet. Is it compatible with the right to health to finance national health systems with revenues of activities that intrinsically destroy life? The essay portrays the inconsistency of development policies that fund health/right to health with extractivism and depicts examples of resistance to extractive industries tied to the People's Health Movement (Canada,Turkey, India and Ecuador) in different types of governments. The need to strengthen the link between the right to health struggles and anti-extractive resistance is highlighted
Agriculture · Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Health care · Livelihood · Political science · Right to health · Social determinants of health · Human Rights and Development · Mining and Resource Management
Multidimensional poverty and the co-occurrence of undernutrition and intestinal parasitic infections in Ecuadorian infants
Es la atención primaria de salud integral parte de la respuesta a la pandemia de Covid-19 en Latinoamérica
Assessing Indigenous Community Radio as Two-Way Communications Infrastructure
How and why buy-in for health in all policies was facilitated in Ecuador
Legal geographies of health
Huellas de un mar enfermo
Vestígios de um mar enfermo
Storylines of research on resource extraction and health in Canada
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |