PHM-Exch> Food for confronting a health thought

[Claudio Schuftan]

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*Human Rights Reader 312*

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*RESOLUTELY STANDING FOR THE RIGHT TO HEALTH MEANS* C*ONFRONTING THE
POLITICS OF EXCLUSION AND THE ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY. **#** *



While not universally embraced, the notion that health care systems are *public
goods* protecting an inalienable right of all human beings  is increasingly
invoked in debates about health care financing, and about global health
governance. But herein also lies a paradox in health and in human rights.
At no time in human history has the notion of health as a human right
enjoyed such prominence in the international and national health discourse
as it does now. Yet this newfound prominence of the human right to health
clashes with the ongoing expansion of the politics of exclusion and the
economics of inequality.



Perhaps the major challenge in translating the many local successes of
health activism into concrete health systems change is to increase the
awareness and active involvement of those who stand to benefit the most
from such changes, i.e., the most marginalized people.



To read the full Reader, go to

http://wp.me/plAxa-1GJ

Claudio
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