Policymakers have come to look to human rights law in framing national health policy and
global health governance. Human rights law offers universal frameworks to advance justice …

Despite the fact that the right to health is solidly embedded in various international human
rights documents, there remains widespread confusion about the precise meaning of this …

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!" With great timing, the editors of Rights-Based
Approaches to Public Health offer a targeted and innovative strategy to combat global health …

The right to health, having been previously neglected, is now being deployed more and
more often in litigation, activism and policy-making across the world. International bodies …

What could public health advocates do more effectively to encourage governments to act on
underprioritized global health concerns? One important component largely missing from …

While there are international guidelines in place for the implementation of a rights-based
response to quick-onset natural disasters, there is a notable void in international guidance …

Background The fields of human rights and public health ethics are each concerned with
promoting health and elucidating norms for action. To date, however, little has been written …

In the last decade, most health emergency declarations made by the World Health
Organization (WHO) have been correlated to zoonoses. A study by the Royal Society B has …

The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which
pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the …

The origin and justification of human rights, whether anchored in biological theory, natural
law theory, or interests theory, as well as their cultural specificity and actual value as …