PHA-Exch> new book "Realizing the Right to Health" just published

[Claudio Schuftan]

>From Claire.Mahon at graduateinstitute.ch     Geneva

Please find here information about how to pre-order a new book entitled
"Realizing the Right to Health", edited by Andrew Clapham and Mary Robinson,
co-edited by Claire Mahon and Scott Jerbi, which will be published this
month.

This book, which is Volume III in the Swiss Human Rights Book series,
focuses on the right to health.  The book contains 40 chapters by 60 leading
health care practitioners, human rights advocates, health officials, and
other authorities in the international right to health movement.  The
chapters address various aspects of book's eight core topics: the human
rights perspective on health, prioritzing women's health, the right to
health in emergencies, people and groups at risk, key health challenges,
multilateral institutions and responses, the role of health care
practitioners, and strengthening health care systems.

The book's promotional flyer says:
"Realizing the right to health requires a strong focus on strengthening
health care systems and transforming health systems for women. Taking a
human rights approach to health means understanding the underlying social
determinants of this right, as well as ensuring the right to health is
realized in times of emergency and armed conflict, and for all groups in
society, including migrants and refugees, LGBTI persons, prisoners and
detainees, and others. In this third volume of the Swiss Human Rights Book
series, leading international experts in human rights and health address
issues such as access to essential medicines, HIV/AIDS, trade and health,
SARS and malaria, and human rights approaches to other key health
challenges. They address the role of governments, non-state actors and
healthcare practitioners, the responses of multilateral institutions, and
highlight some of the most promising strategies for realizing the right to
health."

The book is available directly from the publishers, Rueffer & Rub, for CHF
48.00 / EUR 32.60 / GBP 24.00 / USD 47.00 each plus postage.  For further
info, please see the website: www.swisshumanrightsbook.ch or contact Rueffer
& Rub at info at ruefferundrub.ch, www.ruefferundrub.ch

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