Clarifying the Right to Health through Supranational Monitoring: The Highest Standard of Health Attainable

Public Health Ethics:phv037 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

As recognized by Gostin in Global Health Law, the principles of equality and dignity put human rights law in a unique position to promote progress towards global health equity. This seems particularly relevant for the right to health, which entitles everyone to ‘the highest standard of health attainable’. However, it is still unclear what such a standard entails, and in order for the right to health to be adequately enforced and, thus, to effectively channel progress towards global health equity, it is fundamental that its scope of interests be clarified. Supranational human rights bodies have a key role in that regard. Not only can they clarify the legal content of the right to health for key actors through their monitoring procedures, they can also set common standards for states under their jurisdictions. Therefore, their contributions should be examined and optimized.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The importance of 'social responsibility' in the promotion of health.Stefano Semplici - 2011 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 14 (4):355-363.
Interdependence, Human Rights and Global Health Law.A. M. Viens - 2015 - Health Care Analysis 23 (4):401-417.
Global Health Justice and the Right to Health.Heather Widdows - 2015 - Health Care Analysis 23 (4):391-400.
Does the Human Right to Health Lack Content?Martin Gunderson - 2011 - Social Philosophy Today 27:49-62.
Introduction: Access to Life-Saving Medicines and Intellectual Property Rights.Doris Schroeder - 2011 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (2):277-278.
Global Health Justice and Governance.Jennifer Prah Ruger - 2012 - American Journal of Bioethics 12 (12):35-54.
Public Health and the Rights of States.A. Miklos - 2009 - Public Health Ethics 2 (2):158-170.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-12-23

Downloads
36 (#385,000)

6 months
2 (#668,348)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Law’s Empire.Ronald Dworkin - 1986 - Harvard University Press.
Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly.Norman Daniels - 2007 - Cambridge University Press.
The Quality of Life.Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen & Master Amartya Sen (eds.) - 1993 - Oxford University Press.

Add more references