HLST 1010 Chapter 4: session _6: Short Summary

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 1010
• Professor: Dennis Raphael

Document Summary

A recent development in understanding health is to contextualize it from the perspective of human rights that is, to put it in the framework of justice as a way to approach it. Medical care and health care decisions cannot be isolated from our basic social contract as though medical ethics and law are a mysterious, exclusive domain comprehensible only to professional practitioners. The general comment further set out four criteria for evaluating the right to health: availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality. (unites nations) It recognized that the right to health was dependent on these other rights. In other words, the right to health is more than access to health care and applies equally to other social determinants of health. A rights-based approach to health means using human rights as a framework for health development. It means making principles of human rights integral to the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programs.