The Right to Health: A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practice

This interdisciplinary study engages with the fields of human rights law, health law, and public health. It analyses how the internationally guaranteed human ‘right to health’ is realized by States at a national level. It brings together scholars from more than ten different countries, with each of them analyzing the right to health in their country or region. They all focus on a particular theme that is important in their country, such as health inequalities, the Millennium Development Goals, or the privatization of healthcare. This book is relevant for scholars, practitioners and policy makers in the field of human rights law, health law, public health and the intersection between these three fields.

Brigit Toebes is an Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow in international health law at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.  Rh​onda Ferguson is a Ph.D. candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway. Milan M. Markovic is a fellow with the Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade and a legal advisor with Mental Disability Rights Initiative (DRI) in Belgrade, Serbia and a doctoral candidate at the University of Graz, Austria. Obiajulu Nnamuchi is Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nigeria and President/Chief Consultant, Centre for Health, Bioethics and Human Rights (CHBHR) Enugu, Nigeria.