Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190672684 ISBN 13: 9780190672683

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through global health governance. This volume examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations. To analyze the structural determinants of rights-based governance, the organizations in this volume include those international bureaucracies that implement human rights in ways that influence public health in a globalizing world. This volume brings together leading health and human rights scholars and practitioners from academia, non-governmental organizations, and the United Nations system. They explore the foundations of human rights as a normative framework for global health governance, the mandate of the World Health Organization to pursue a human rights-based approach to health, the role of inter-governmental organizations across a range of health-related human rights, the influence of rights-based economic governance on public health, and the focus on global health among institutions of human rights governance. Contributing chapters each map the distinct human rights efforts within a specific institution of global governance for health. Through the comparative institutional analysis in this volume, the contributing authors examine institutional dynamics to operationalize human rights in organizational policies, programs, and practices and assess institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit human rights mainstreaming for global health advancement.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin Mason Meier is Associate Professor of Global Health Policy and Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor, Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.

From the Back Cover

"The World Health Organization was founded on the conviction that health is a fundamental human right. This volume highlights the importance of a rights-based approach in global health governance, and the contributing chapters provide a foundation to ensure that human rights occupy their rightful place at the center of global health policy."

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General of the World Health Organization

"Human Rights in Global Health takes a comprehensive look at the evolution of human rights, particularly for the most marginalized, in the institutional architecture for global health. This volume is a tour de force that fills a significant gap in the field and will serve as an invaluable resource for policymakers, faculty, and students."

Chelsea Clinton & Devi Sridhar

Co-authors of Governing Global Health

"Human rights and global governance need each other. This groundbreaking volume systematically reviews their emerging relationship in the context of global health. It signals how far we have come, how much further we still have to travel, and how we can chart the way forward. If you work in global health, this important book is essential reading."

Paul Hunt

First UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190672684
• ISBN 13: 9780190672683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 614
• Editor: Benjamin Mason Meier, Lawrence O. Gostin