Litigating health rights : can courts bring more justice to health? /

From the publisher. The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of health rights cases focusing on issues such as access to health services and essential medications. This volume examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding gover...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Yamin, Alicia Ely, Gloppen, Siri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School : Harvard University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Human Rights Program practice series.
Temas:
Medical care > Law and legislation.
Right to health.
Health services accessibility.
Medical policy.
Right to health > Cross-cultural studies.
Health services accessibility > Cross-cultural studies.
Health Services Accessibility
Health Policy
Droit à la santé.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
Politique sanitaire.
Droit à la santé > Études transculturelles.
Services de santé > Accessibilité > Études transculturelles.
Health services accessibility
Medical care > Law and legislation
Medical policy
Right to health
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: can litigation bring justice to health / Siri Gloppen and Mindy Jane Roseman
  • Litigating health rights : framing the analysis / Siri Gloppen
  • Argentina : courts and the right to health : achieving fairness despite "routinization" in individual coverage cases / Paola Bergallo
  • Brazil : health inequalities, rights, and courts : the social impact of the judicialization of health / Octavio L. Motta Ferraz
  • Colombia : judicial protection of the right to health : an elusive promise / Alicia Ely Yamin, Oscar Parra-Vera, and Camila Gianella
  • Costa Rica : health rights litigation : causes and consequences / Bruce M. Wilson
  • India : citizens, courts, and the right to health : between promise and progress / Sharanjeet Parmar and Namita Wahi
  • South Africa : health rights litigation : cautious constitutionalism / Carole Cooper
  • Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights : some initial arguments / Roberto Gargarella
  • Litigating the right to health : are transnational actors backseat driving / Mindy Jane Roseman and Siri Gloppen
  • Assessing the impact of health rights litigation : a comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, and South Africa / Ottar Maestad, Lise Rakner, and Octavio L. Motta Ferraz
  • Litigating for medicines : how can we assess impact on health outcomes / Ole Frithjof Norheim and Siri Gloppen
  • Power, suffering, and courts : reflections on promoting health rights through judicialization / Alicia Ely Yamin.

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