What could a strengthened right to health bring to the post-2015 health development agenda?: Interrogating the role of the minimum core concept in advancing essential global health needs

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Forman, Lisa ^a   Ooms, Gorik ^b   Chapman, Audrey ^c   Friedman, Eric ^d   Waris, Attiya ^e   Lamprea, Everaldo ^f   Mulumba, Moses ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^g Center for Health Human Rights and Development   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Equity; Global health; Human rights; Millennium development goals; Minimum core obligations; Post 2015 health development agenda; Right to health

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW; REVIEW; RIGHT TO HEALTH; ARTICLE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84888385569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-13-48     Document Type: Review

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