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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal">Human
Rights Reader 312</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt">RESOLUTELY STANDING FOR THE RIGHT TO HEALTH MEANS</span></strong> <span style="font-size:14.0pt">C<strong><span style>ONFRONTING
THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION AND THE ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY. </span></strong></span><strong><span style>#</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">While not universally
embraced, the notion that health care systems are <em>public goods</em>
protecting an inalienable right of all human beings <span style> </span>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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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. </span></p>
<br><br><br>To read the full Reader, go to<br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1GJ">http://wp.me/plAxa-1GJ</a> <br><br>Claudio<br>