Introduction: Legislating and litigating health care rights around the world

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 636-640

  Flood, Colleen M ^a   Gable, Lance ^b,c   Gostin, Lawrence O ^c,d,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g Institute of Medicine

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT RIGHT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; LEGAL APPROACH;

HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PATIENT RIGHTS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 32144433678     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2005.tb00531.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2005 SCC 35.
2. See N. Daniels and J. Sabin, Setting Limits Fairly - Can we Learn to Share Medical Resources? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
3. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.), 1982, c.11.
4. A. Petter, "Wealthcare: The Politics of the Charter Revisited," in C. M. Flood, K. Roach and L. Sossin, Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005): 116.
5. E. D. Kinney and B. A. Clark, "Provisions for Health and Health Care in the Constitutions of the Countries of the World," Cornell International Law Journal (2004): 285-355, at 287.