HLTH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: International Human Rights Law, Almaty, Occupational Hygiene
13 Jun 2018
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11/15/17
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
9:42 AM
Rights based approaches to public health
Dabney evans
• Health and human rights
• Objectives
• Defining right to health
• Right to health in law
• Models of understanding hhr
• Moving forward
• Highest attainable standard
• Different in each country
• Right to health
• Is there such a thing as right to health?
• Health: state of complete physical mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity
• We typically think of our health when we're not healthy
• We have a right to health that we usually don’t realize until we lose it
• Declaration of alma ata 1978
o Fundamental human right and attainment of highest possible level of health is most
important world wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other
social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector
• How do you define what health is or what human rights are???? Damn shit you right. We
don’t realize it till its breached
• What is the right to health
• Opportunity for every single person to have affordable and effective healthcare
• Obligations of states to their citizens
• Governments can influence social factors but its hard to guarantee healthcare
o Paying for healthcare
o Health isnt the same thing as medical care and vice versa
o Its for everyone to be as healthy as possible (we don’t even have the systems in place
for that to happen)
o There IS right to health in international human rights law
• Universal declaration of human rights (UDHR) not legally binding
• Covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights (CESCR) legally binding
• Convention on the elimination all forms of discrimination against women
(CEDAW)
• Convention on the rights of the child (CRC)
• Disabilities convention (CRPD)
o 166 states have ratified ICESCR with the additional state signatories (197 member
states of the UN)
• Us hasn’t signed lmao bitchez
o ICESCR
• Reduction of the still birth rate
• Improvement of all aspects of environmental and industrial hygiene
Document Summary
Dabney evans: health and human rights, objectives, defining right to health, right to health in law, models of understanding hhr, moving forward, highest attainable standard, different in each country, right to health. Icescr: reduction of the still birth rate. How can you access: acceptability, respectful of medical ethics and culturally appropriate actions, quality. Our idea of human rights is justice being done: but that"s not how it works. International human rights law is set up as a diplomatic process. Standard setting and review: monitoring, review, action and remedies. 7 countries that has ban on abortion regardless of circumstance: us, has ratified: Iccpr (international convention on civil and political rights: un charter, convention against storture, cerd convention on elimination on racial discrimination. Icescr : economic social and cultural rights: cedaw (189 states parties) womens convention, crc convention on rights of child (196 states parties) 197 in total so us sucks, disability convention, there were 75000 preventable maternal deaths every year.
