Operationalizing a Right to Health: Theorizing a National Health System as a "Commons"

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 491-514

  Smith Nonini, Sandy ^a   Bell, Beverly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Institute for Policy Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Adopting a systems approach in analyzing health policy, useful insights; Advent of journal Health and Human Rights by Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University; Health rights, differing from human rights concept in the West, cases of coercive violations; Issues of scale and methodology medical anthropology, and national health systems; Notion of health rights traced to Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); Social justice goals calling for expanding services to the underserved; Social security, linchpin of system and neoliberal target medical degree in hand; The road ahead operationalizing a right to health, theorizing a national health system as a "Commons"; Universal access to health universal care as "band aid,"open wound of immigrant inequality; Why a health care commons is superior to a market maximizing condition of health for a population

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862266695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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