A case for integrating human rights in public health policy
| dc.contributor.author | London, Leslie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-28T09:05:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-28T09:05:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-11T10:41:56Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In a global environment where human rights and well-being are coming under increasing threat, both from the spectre of terrorism and from the counter-reaction to it,1 and where international governance systems continue to pay lip service to poverty reduction while encouraging unbridled private accumulation of wealth resulting in huge inequalities between and within countries,2,3 the need to make human rights considerations an integral part of how public health policies are formulated cannot be overemphasised. Contestation over entitlements to socio-economic rights has troubled health care systems worldwide, from resource-poor settings in Africa, where questions have been raised as to whether human rights approaches are best suited to addressing the problem of AIDS in Africa,4,5 through to the over-consumptive USA where universal access to health care remains a policy objective doomed to unfulfilment under market-fixated economic systems.6,7 | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.1081 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | London, L. (2006). A case for integrating human rights in public health policy. <i>South African Medical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24656 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | London, Leslie "A case for integrating human rights in public health policy." <i>South African Medical Journal</i> (2006) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24656 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | London, L. (2006). A case for integrating human rights in public health policy. South African Medical Journal, 96(4), 302. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - London, Leslie AB - In a global environment where human rights and well-being are coming under increasing threat, both from the spectre of terrorism and from the counter-reaction to it,1 and where international governance systems continue to pay lip service to poverty reduction while encouraging unbridled private accumulation of wealth resulting in huge inequalities between and within countries,2,3 the need to make human rights considerations an integral part of how public health policies are formulated cannot be overemphasised. Contestation over entitlements to socio-economic rights has troubled health care systems worldwide, from resource-poor settings in Africa, where questions have been raised as to whether human rights approaches are best suited to addressing the problem of AIDS in Africa,4,5 through to the over-consumptive USA where universal access to health care remains a policy objective doomed to unfulfilment under market-fixated economic systems.6,7 DA - 2006 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Medical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2006 T1 - A case for integrating human rights in public health policy TI - A case for integrating human rights in public health policy UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24656 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24656 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | London L. A case for integrating human rights in public health policy. South African Medical Journal. 2006; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24656. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Medical Journal | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj | |
| dc.title | A case for integrating human rights in public health policy | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |