HSCI 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Global Health, The Foundations, Belmont Report
17 Dec 2015
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The importance of ethical and human rights issues in global health. Strong complementarity between good ethical and human right practices on the one hand and good health outcomes on the other. Access to health services and health information is a human right. Made up of the universal declaration of human rights. Places obligations on governments to respect, protect, and fulfill the rights they state => to refrain from violating people"s rights, to prevent others from violating them, and to actively promote the realization of people"s rights. Does not have the force of law but it has a moral force. Argues that we should adopt a human rights approach to global health: violation of human rights tends to be detrimental to health. Also includes relative social status, discrimination, and social exclusion as a relationship with population health. It is an inclusive view of what is need to promote health.
