IDSA01H3 Lecture : Lec three
17 Dec 2011
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The human rights to health in the context of development: historical perspectives. Value judgements lie at the heart of development analysis and policy. However these value judgements are often not acknowledged. Public policy aims to create and sustain improvements. Different ideas about what should be improved lead to different policies (e. g. poverty reduction policies vary depending on how poverty is defined). In contrast with approaches that seek to improve the national economy, or people s resources, or their utility, human development argues that people s well-being should improve. Development policy involves uncertainty, trade-offs and complexity. The output or impact of any policy depends in part on the social, political, institutional, cultural and economic context. The spirit of 1848 : the triangle of health, human rights, and development: y cholera pandemic y revolutions in berin paris, vienna, palermo milan, naples, parma, rome, warsaw, prague, and. Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale.
