Global Health, Human Rights, and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies

Written by a respected authority on human rights and public health, this book delivers an in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health. The author expertly explores the integration of social determinants into the right to health along with the methodologies and findings of social medicine and epidemiology. The author goes on to challenge the way that health care is currently provided and makes the case that achieving universal health coverage will require fundamental health systems reforms.

List of contents

1. The right to health as an emergent human right; 2. Evaluating interpretations of the right to health; 3. Health and human rights in the neoliberal era; 4. Private sector provision, health, and human rights; 5. Globalization, health, and human rights; 6. Achieving improved access to medicines; 7. The social determinants of health, health equity, and human rights; 8. Right to health perspectives on universal health care.

About the author

Audrey R. Chapman currently holds the Healey Endowed Chair at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute. She previously served as the Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Human Rights Program and on expert committees appointed by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and the UNESCO human rights program.

Summary

This book delivers an in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health and the way that health care is provided. The author reinterprets the right to health as an emergent human right and proposes a greater emphasis on the social determinants of health.

Product details

• Authors: Audrey R. Chapman, Audrey R. (University of Connecticut) Chapman, Chapman Audrey R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107458482
• ISBN: 978-1-107-45848-2
• No. of pages: 355
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Public health & preventive medicine, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public health and preventive medicine, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law