The human right to health: A right to the "highest attainable standard of health"

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 29-30

  Gostin, Lawrence O ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED NATIONS;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 0035293754     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528498     Document Type: Article

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8. L.O. Gostin, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (New York and Berkeley Calif.: Milbank Memorial Fund and the University of California Press, 2000).
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10. N. Daniels, B. Kennedy, and I. Kawachi, "Justice is Good for Our Health," Boston Review, February/March 2000: 6-15.