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The right to health at the public/private divide : a global comparative study /

"In 2006, a WHO survey found evidence of a substantial increase in patient-led litigation against health authorities and funders over access to medicines around the world. New Zealanders have seldom litigated denials of access to health care. Part of the explanation lies in the fact that New Ze...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Flood, Colleen M. (Editor ), Gross, Aeyal M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Litigating a Right to Health Care in New Zealand / Joanna Manning
  • The Right to Health in Sweden / Anna-Sara Lind
  • Litigating Health Rights in Canada: A White Knight for Equity? / Colleen M. Flood
  • Promoting Access and Equity in Health: Assessing the National Health Service in England / Chris Newdick
  • Colombia's Right-to-Health Litigation in a Context of Health Care Reform / Everaldo Lamprea
  • The Right to Health in Israel between Solidarity and Neoliberalism / Aeyal Gross
  • Health Care Access in the Netherlands: A True Story / André den Exter
  • Addressing Equity in Health Care at the Public-Private Intersection: The Role of Health Rights Enforcement in Hungary / Mária Éva Földes
  • Lending a Helping Hand: The Impact of Constitutional Interpretation on Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program, Health Equity, and Distributive Justice / Y.Y. Brandon Chen
  • Health Rights at the Juncture between State and Market: The People's Republic of China / Christina S. Ho
  • The Role of Rights and Litigation in Assuring More Equitable Access to Health Care in South Africa / Lisa Forman and Jerome Amir Singh
  • Provision of Health Care Services and the Right to Health in Brazil: The Long, Winding, and Uncertain Road to Equality / Mariana Mota Prado
  • A Vision of an Emerging Right to Health Care in the United States: Expanding Health Care Equity through Legislative Reform / Allison K. Hoffman
  • The Legal Protection and Enforcement of Health Rights in Nigeria / Remigius N. Nwabueze
  • Litigating the Right to Health in Venezuela: A Nonjusticiable Right in the Context of a Deficient Health Care System / Oscar A. Cabrera and Fanny Gómez
  • Right to Health: Addressing Inequities through Litigation in India / Anand Grover, Maitreyi Misra, and Lubhyathi Rangarajan
  • Conclusion: Contexts for the Promise and Peril of the Right to Health / Colleen M. Flood & Aeyal Gross.