Making the case: What is the evidence of impact of applying human rights-based approaches to health?

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Hunt, Paul ^a   Yamin, Alicia Ely ^b   Bustreo, Flavia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; PUBLICATION;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84956935921     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

References (9)

1. United Nations Development Group, The human rights based approach to development cooperation: Towards a common understanding among UN agencies (New York: UNDG, 2003).
2. See, for example, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Scenario and talking points for High Commissioner on Human Rights event to launch the technical guidance on the application of a human rights based approach to the implementation of policies (September 2012). Available at http://www. ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx- ?NewsID=12559&LangID=.
3. N. Pillay, Human rights in the post-2015 agenda (June 6, 2013). Available at http:// www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/MDGs/HCOpen- LetterPost2015.pdf.
4. A. E. Yamin, Power, suffering, and the struggle for dignity: Human rights frameworks for health and why they matter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
5. F. Bustreo, P. Hunt, S. Gruskin, et al., Women's and children's health: Evidence of impact of human rights (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2013), p. 19.
6. A. E. Yamin and F. Lander, "Implementing a circle of accountability: A proposed framework for judiciaries in enforcing health-related rights," Journal of Human Rights 14/3 (2015), pp. 312-331.
7. F. Bustreo and P. Hunt, "The right to health is coming of age: Evidence of impact and the importance of leadership," Journal of Public Health Policy 34/4 (2013), pp. 574-579.
8. See, for example, LawAtlas, The policy surveillance portal. Available at http://lawatlas.org/welcome.
9. S. Burris, M. Ashe, D. Levin, et al., "A transdisciplinary approach to public health law: The emerging practice of legal epidemiology," Annual Review of Public Health (forthcoming).