PHM-Exch> WHO: A Human Rights Based Approach to Health

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: vern weitzel <vern.weitzel at gmail.com>
 *From: *"Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)" <ruglucia at PAHO.ORG>
*crossposted from: *"Equity, Health & Human Development" <
EQUIDAD at LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG>

 *A Human Rights Based Approach to Health*

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*Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights
*Information, Evidence and Research (IER/ETH) - World Health Organization*


Available online at: http://bit.ly/9D91mp

“……A human rights-based approach (HRBA) aims to support better and more
sustainable development outcomes by analyzing and addressing the
inequalities, discriminatory practices (de jure and de facto) and unjust
power relations which are often at the heart of development problems.

Under a human rights-based approach, development efforts are anchored in a
system of rights and corresponding State obligations established by
international law. Civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights
provide a guiding framework for development plans, policies and processes. A
HRBA also appreciates the importance of capacity development  ….”

*Three types of State obligations:*
·          *Respect: *not to interfere directly or indirectly with the
enjoyment of the right to health, e.g. refrain from limiting access to
health-care services or marketing unsafe drugs.
·          *Protect: *prevent third parties from interfering with the right
to health, e.g. ensure that private companies provide safe environmental
conditions for their employees and surrounding communities

·          *Fulfil: *adopt appropriate legislative, administrative,
budgetary, judicial, promotional and other measures to fully realize the
right to health.


*Related material*:

Human Rights, Health and Poverty Reduction Strategies" is intended to
provide a tool for health policy-makers to design, implement and monitor a
poverty reduction strategy through a human rights-based approach.
Arabic <http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet31ar.pdf> *::*
Chinese *::* English *::*
French<http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet31_fr.pdf>
 Russian Spanish<http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet31sp.pdf>

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the WHO
have issued a fact sheet on the Right to Health. The fact sheet aims to shed
light on the right to health in international human rights law as it
currently stands, amidst the plethora of initiatives and proposals of what
the right to health may or should be. It illustrates implications for
specific individuals and groups, elaborates upon States' obligations and
ends with an overview of national, regional and international accountability
and monitoring mechanisms.

*Health and Human Rights Linkages*
Promoting and protecting health and respecting, protecting and fulfilling
human rights are inextricably linked.
Click here to learn more [pdf
35kb]<http://www.who.int/entity/hhr/HHR%20linkages.pdf>
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