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The right to health : a resource manual for NGOs /
The alarmingly low health status of millions of people in many developing countries is now recognised as a major obstacle to the process of development. In response, increasing numbers of non-governmental organizations are championing the right to health of the disadvantaged, vulnerable and those li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
2010.
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| Colección: | Raoul Wallenberg Institute professional guides to human rights ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Understanding a health and human rights approach
- What are human rights? : the legal framework
- What is meant by the right to health?
- The nature of state obligations
- Focus on core obligations
- Focus on non-discrimination and vulnerable and otherwise disadvantaged groups
- Globalization, obligations of non-state actors and international obligations arising from the right to health
- Monitoring the right to health
- Tools for monitoring I : working with indicators, benchmarks and statistical data
- Tools for monitoring II : identifying violations
- Promoting the right to health : activities to promote and protect the right to health at community, national and international levels
- Reporting : participation by NGOs in UN procedures for monitoring compliance by their governments
- Medical and other health professionals : working with the right to health.