Health Sciences 3250F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Global Health, Food Security, Rights-Based Approach To Development
27 Jan 2017
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Session overview: health and human rights approach key concepts. The political origins of health inequity (lancet-university of oslo commission) political economy look at global health, looks at health beyond the health sector. Health and human rights approach human right to be fought for. It is my aspiration that health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a. Look at health not as charity, but as an entitlement not because of my goodwill, you have health, it"s we have a fundamental human right to health. Kofi annan, (former) un secretary general, 2002: health and human rights framework, can be used to help improve global health, also to address underlying determinants. Health and human rights approach: un universal declaration of human rights (undhr) 1948. Human rights: those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which we cannot live as human beings. directly from the undhr: consistent with the who constitution.
