PHA-Exch> Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history, connections and a proposed practical approach

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org

 *Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health:
 history, connections and a proposed practical approach

*Sofia Gruskin a, Jane Cottingham b, Adriane Martin Hilber c, Eszter Kismodi
b, Ornella Lincetto b, Mindy Jane Roseman d
a Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public
Health, Cambridge, MA, USA
b World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
c University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland.
d Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008,
577-656

Available online at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-050500.pdf

"……We describe the historical development of how maternal and neonatal
mortality in the developing world came to be seen as a public-health
concern, a human rights concern, and ultimately as both, leading to the
development of approaches using human rights concepts and methods to advance
maternal and neonatal health. We describe the different contributions of the
international community, women's health advocates and human rights
activists.

We briefly present a recent effort, developed by WHO with the Harvard
Program on International Health and Human Rights, that applies a human
rights framework to reinforce current efforts to reduce maternal and
neonatal mortality….."


*WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume* *Bulletin of the World Health
Organization Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008

*Website: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-000808/en/index.html

This month's special theme is ethics and public health. In the first
editorial, Carl H Coleman et al. (578) discuss the key issues in
public-health ethics and how WHO incorporates ethics into its mission. In
the second, John Krebs (579) presents the ethical dilemma involved in
balancing individual rights with government intervention. In the third,
Cristina P Pinheiro (580) questions the ethics of drug donations and
proposes alternative aid solutions.

In an interview, Mary Robinson (587–588), former President of Ireland and
ex-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, talks about the need
for a more ethical approach to health policy worldwide. To complement the
theme of this month's issue, John R Williams (650–652) looks at the
Declaration of Helsinki – a set of principles guiding medical and scientific
research – and how it has evolved over time.


*EDITORIALS*

The contribution of ethics to public health
- Carl H Coleman et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055954
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The importance of public-health ethics
- John Krebs
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052431
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Drug donations: what lies beneath
- Cristina P Pinheiro
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048546
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*POLICY AND PRACTICE*

Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history,
connections and a proposed practical approach
- Sofia Gruskin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050500
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Herbal medicine research and global health: an ethical analysis
- Jon C Tilburt & Ted J Kaptchuk
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042820
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Denaturalizing scarcity: a strategy of enquiry for public-health ethics
- Ted Schrecker
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050880
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Integrating ethics, health policy and health systems in low- and
middle-income countries: case studies from Malaysia and Pakistan
- Adnan A Hyder et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051110
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Demographic and health surveillance: longitudinal ethical considerations
- Margaret Carrel & Stuart Rennie
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051037
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Ethical analysis to improve decision-making on health technologies
- Samuli I Saarni et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051078
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A personalist approach to public-health ethics
- Carlo Petrini & Sabina Gainotti
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051193
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National bioethical legislation and guidelines for biomedical research in
the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Farzaneh Zahedi & Bagher Larijani
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050724
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Health-sector responses to intimate partner violence in low- and
middle-income settings: a review of current models, challenges and
opportunities
- Manuela Colombini et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045906
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*PERSPECTIVES*

Emerging norms for the control of emerging epidemics
- Christopher W McDougall et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051771
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The burden of surgical conditions and access to surgical care in low- and
middle-income countries
- Doruk Ozgediz et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050435
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Access to medicines versus access to treatment: the case of type 1 diabetes
- David Beran et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048710
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*PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS*

The Declaration of Helsinki and public health
- John R Williams
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050955
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