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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"right to health"”.
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Realizing the Right to Health Care in Canada
… and domestic laws increasingly recognize health rights; international law clearly recognizes a right to health that includes health care entitlements and approximately 69% of domestic constitutions include a right to health care. Recognition of a positive right to health care has been …
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A critical analysis of the child's right to health in Zambia
The right to health is a fundamental right that requires full respect and protection for every individual. It is even more important that children are adequately guaranteed this right. This research is an insight into the lives of children. It looks at the right to health of a Zambian child and …
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A critical analysis of the child's right to health in Zambia
The right to health is a fundamental right that requires full respect and protection for every individual. It is even more important that children are adequately guaranteed this right. This research is an insight into the lives of children. It looks at the right to health of a Zambian child and …
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The right to health implications of data-driven health research partnerships
The public-private partnership between DeepMind Health and the NHS sparked public outcry for violating patient privacy, capturing the attention of right to privacy scholars and practitioners. By contrast, critiques pertaining to the broader political economy of the collaboration- which invoke …
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Imagining a right to health: HIV/AIDS, subjectivities and notions of entitlement
This research is an investigation into how the subjectivities of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) are shaped by their illness and how this ultimately influences their conceptualization of entitlements and rights. It achieves this by analyzing the broader historical and modern contexts in which …
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Community health committees as a vehicle for participation in advancing the right to health
The principles of Primary Health Care guided health system transformation in South Africa where community health committees represent formal structures for participation in health. While there is evidence to suggest that participation can assist the progressive realization of the right to health, …
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How is palliative care part of the right to health? The South African evidence
… is an appropriate and compassionate response to the needs of patients with life threatening illness. International human rights law establishes palliative care as part of the right to health. But what does this mean in practice? How is palliative care part of the right to health at the country …
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Gender, participation and the right to health: health committees in Cape Town, South Africa
… is now widely recognized as an integral part of health systems and the right to health. Health Committees are an example of participation, influenced by multiple social factors, yet little research has covered the impact of gendered power relations in health committees themselves. Committees are …
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The potential role of justiciability in fostering compliance with the right to health in Nigeria
… aspirations of the Nigerian people are yet to be met as there continues to be a gap between the promises embodied in international human rights law especially the commitment to the right to health and the actual practice. Also, the need to develop the content of the Economic, Social and …
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The Right to Health as a Claim on Dignity: Implications for State Accountability in Nigeria
This thesis argues that dignity is central to the realisation of the right to health in Nigeria and shapes the relationship of the Nigerian State with its people. The thesis posits that a contextual understanding of the nature of human dignity in Nigeria is predicated on a social compact where …
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An analysis of South Africa’s efforts to realise the right to health through vaccine access during Covid-19
… tested governments worldwide in upholding the right to health, particularly through equitable access to vaccines. In South Africa, where the right to health is constitutionally enshrined, the pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities and placed significant strain on health systems and policy …
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Realizing the right to health through the use of health print materials in the Western Cape, South Africa
This qualitative study was conducted in Cape Town, South Africa in 2010. It examines the effectiveness of promotional educational pamphlets on the awareness, understandings and practice of the right to health among eight civil society organizations and their constituents.
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RESHAPING THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN A POST-PANDEMIC ERA: THE ROLE OF ENTERPRISES AND THE HEALTH& SUSTAINABILITY NEXUS
Questa dissertazione esamina l'impatto della condotta e della governance aziendale sulla salute, concepita sia come un diritto umano fondamentale che come un bene globale comune. Si sostiene che la salute è un elemento centrale che collega i tre pilastri interdipendenti dello sviluppo sostenibile: …
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Is knowing that you have rights enough? : exploring marginalised women's awareness, understanding and practice of the right to health
… awareness, understanding and practice of their rights to health. The target group in the case study is women. These women live in townships and informal settlements in Cape Town and are part of a community-based network called The Women's Circle (TWC). The purpose of this study ,is to advance …
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An analysis of the Effect of Patents on the right to health in Developing Countries: a case Study of Zambia
… patent protection is an indispensable incentive to creative and inventive work. Such a system becomes crucial to establishing and maintaining an attractive commercial environment. An adequate patent system, effectively administered, ultimately stimulates domestic innovation, fosters new …
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An analysis of the Effect of Patents on the right to health in Developing Countries: a case Study of Zambia
… patent protection is an indispensable incentive to creative and inventive work. Such a system becomes crucial to establishing and maintaining an attractive commercial environment. An adequate patent system, effectively administered, ultimately stimulates domestic innovation, fosters new …
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Overcoming Parental Consent: How can International Human Rights Law be used to Protect a Child’s Right to Health in Childhood Immunization Cases?
Children have the right to preventive medical treatment and interventions that serve their best interests. In the case of minors, this right is exercised by the parent or legal guardian with hopes that they will exercise their responsibility positively. Over the years however, this right has been …
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