HLST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rapporteur, Human Genome Project, World Health Organization
16 Apr 2016
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The right to health: human rights approaches to health. Health is influenced by a variety of social, economic and environmental factors. And not just by access to health care. A right based approach to health means using human rights as framework for health development. Its mean making principles of human rights integral to the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programs. Also, mean assessing the human right implications of health policy ,program, legislation. Preservation of freedom of individual through social support. Also, human rights include the rights of nations to development, economic autonomy and security of their citizens. Figure 4. 1: linkage between health and human rights. Decisions about health are related to how we see ourselves as individuals and societies: it"s about our fundamental beliefs. It rises questions like of how we determine which values will take precedence. Health, law, and ethics are inextricably intertwined. Example being the mapping of the human genome; the human genome.
