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Pris: 409 SEK exkl. moms  |  ”At a time when Health Systems around the world are under increasing pressure this book is a timely publication and should be required reading for all those with an interest in the challenges posed in achieving Global Health. The authors and the Editor are to be congratulated on an outstanding work.”
The Royal Society of Medicine
Contents
Contributors
Foreword by Anand Grover
Acknowledgments by Gunilla Backman
Glossary
Introduction by Gunilla Backman
SECTION I THE FOUNDATION
CHAPTER 1 International Human Rights Law and the Right to Health: An Overview of Legal Standards and Accountability Mechanisms by Lisa Forman and Sivan Bomze
CHAPTER 2 Realising the Right to Health: Moving from a Nationalist to a Cosmopolitan Approach by Rachel Hammonds and Gorik Ooms
CHAPTER 3 Public Health, Primary Health Care, and the Right to Health by Helen Potts
CHAPTER 4 Health Systems and the Right to Health by Gunilla Backman
CHAPTER 5 Ethics and the Right to Health by John Porter and Sridhar Venkatapuram
SECTION II PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
CHAPTER 6 Maternal Mortality by Alicia Ely Yamin
CHAPTER 7 HIV and AIDS by Sofia Gruskin and Shahira Ahmed
CHAPTER 8 Mental Disability by Lance Gable
CHAPTER 9 Essential Medicines by Hans V Hogerzeil
CHAPTER 10 Undocumented Migrants by Susan Wright and Henry Ascher
CHAPTER 11 Palliative Care by Gunilla Backman and Jan Stjernswärd
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 12 Human Rights, Health, and Development, or What the Future Holds by Daniel Tarantola
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