Towards an improved understanding of the international human right to health

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 661-679

  Toebes, Brigit ^a  

^a TMC Asser Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN RIGHTS;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED NATIONS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED NATIONS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0033428191     PISSN: 02750392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hrq.1999.0044     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Many other states, notably those belonging to the so-called Second and Third Worlds, on the other hand, have been more prominent in promoting economic, social, and cultural human rights.
2. See Joseph M. Boyle, Jr., The Concept of Health and the Right to Health, 3 Soc. THOUGHT, Summer 1977, at 5, 6 ( quoting Leon R. Kass, Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health, 40 PUB. INTEREST 39 (1975)).
3. See Joseph M. Boyle, Jr., The Concept of Health and the Right to Health, 3 Soc. THOUGHT, Summer 1977, at 5, 6 ( quoting Leon R. Kass, Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health, 40 PUB. INTEREST 39 (1975)).
4. See H.D.C. ROSCAM ABBING, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN EUROPE AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE 104-05 (1979); Roemer, supra note 3, at 17.
5. See Virginia A. Leary, Implications of a Right to Health, in HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 481, 485 (Kathleen E. Mahoney & Paul Mahoney eds., 1993).