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Editorial
25 Years: Exploring the Health and Human Rights Journey
Health and human rights, v 21(2), pp 279-282
Dec 2019
PMID: 31885456
Abstract
A true history of any movement makes for a rich, complex, and often contradictory story. Partial stories are easier to tell, and teach. Such a partial story of health and human rights might begin with crediting Jonathan Mann for starting the modern human rights and health movement 25 years ago, building upon the Constitution of the WHO, which in 1946 identified the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health as one of the fundamental rights of every human being. This partial story would observe definitive events including the adoption by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of General Comment 14 in 2000, defining the obligations that States parties have regarding the right to health at national and international levels. The story could go on to highlight certain influential conferences and groundbreaking legal cases for the right to health. It might note the ever-increasing deployment of human rights-based approaches to health and growing global recognition of the right to health. All of which would be true, but far from a whole truth. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- 25 Years: Exploring the Health and Human Rights Journey
- Creators
- Carmel Williams - Executive Editor of Health and Human RightsJoseph J Amon - Drexel UniversityMary T Bassett - Harvard UniversityAna V Diez Roux - Drexel UniversityPaul E Farmer - Harvard University
- Publication Details
- Health and human rights, v 21(2), pp 279-282
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000535786700026
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85077327430
- Other Identifier
- 991019168282104721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health