HST209H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rights-Based Approach To Development, Dignity, Symbolic Interactionism
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Rights based approach to health: implication of health policy, programs, legislation, human rights an integral dimension of design, implementation, evaluation of health initiatives, political, economic, social spheres. How does a human-rights approach apply: human dignity, attention to vulnerable groups, accessibility of health services, gender perspectives, equality and freedom from discrimination, right to education, right to highest attainable standard of health. Ingredients of rights based approach to health (9) Give us criteria for when our human rights can be infringed upon for the greater good of public health. E. g. , vaccines, quarantine (in epidemic); your rights of freedom is infringed but it is for the greater good of the population. Focus on equality and freedom of discrimination. Disaggregation: runs the risk of obscuring what happens at a lower level when focusing on population, may not represent equality or may mask some form of discrimination. Siracusa principals: human rights to a place until it is difficult to protect public health.
