Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health:
history, connections and a proposed practical approach
Sofia Gruskin a, Jane Cottingham b, Adriane Martin Hilber c, Eszter Kismodi b, Ornella Lincetto b, Mindy Jane Roseman d
a Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge , MA , USA
b World Health Organization, Geneva , Switzerland
c University of Berne , Berne , Switzerland
d Harvard Law School , Cambridge , MA , USA
Bulletin of the World Health Organization Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008, 577-656
Available online at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-050500.pdf
“……We describe the historical development of how maternal and neonatal mortality in the developing world came to be seen as a public-health concern, a human rights concern, and ultimately as both, leading to the development of approaches using human rights concepts and methods to advance maternal and neonatal health. We describe the different contributions of the international community, women’s health advocates and human rights activists.
We briefly present a recent effort, developed by WHO with the Harvard Program on International Health and Human Rights, that applies a human rights framework to reinforce current efforts to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality…..”
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume
Bulletin of the World Health Organization Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008
Website: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-000808/en/index.html
This month’s special theme is ethics and public health. In the first editorial, Carl H Coleman et al. (578) discuss the key issues in public-health ethics and how WHO incorporates ethics into its mission. In the second, John Krebs (579) presents the ethical dilemma involved in balancing individual rights with government intervention. In the third, Cristina P Pinheiro (580) questions the ethics of drug donations and proposes alternative aid solutions.
In an interview, Mary Robinson (587–588), former President of Ireland and ex-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, talks about the need for a more ethical approach to health policy worldwide. To complement the theme of this month’s issue, John R Williams (650–652) looks at the Declaration of Helsinki – a set of principles guiding medical and scientific research – and how it has evolved over time.
EDITORIALS
The contribution of ethics to public health
- Carl H Coleman et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055954
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The importance of public-health ethics
- John Krebs
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052431
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Drug donations: what lies beneath
- Cristina P Pinheiro
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048546
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POLICY AND PRACTICE
Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history, connections and a proposed practical approach
- Sofia Gruskin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050500
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 391kb]
Herbal medicine research and global health: an ethical analysis
- Jon C Tilburt & Ted J Kaptchuk
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042820
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 479kb]
Denaturalizing scarcity: a strategy of enquiry for public-health ethics
- Ted Schrecker
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050880
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 508kb]
Integrating ethics, health policy and health systems in low- and middle-income countries: case studies from
- Adnan A Hyder et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051110
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 460kb]
Demographic and health surveillance: longitudinal ethical considerations
- Margaret Carrel & Stuart Rennie
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051037
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 362kb]
Ethical analysis to improve decision-making on health technologies
- Samuli I Saarni et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051078
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 494kb]
A personalist approach to public-health ethics
- Carlo Petrini & Sabina Gainotti
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051193
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 385kb]
National bioethical legislation and guidelines for biomedical research in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Farzaneh Zahedi & Bagher Larijani
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050724
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 391kb]
Health-sector responses to intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income settings: a review of current models, challenges and opportunities
- Manuela Colombini et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045906
Abstract [HTML] | Full article text [HTML] | Full article text [pdf 644kb]
PERSPECTIVES
Emerging norms for the control of emerging epidemics
- Christopher W McDougall et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051771
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The burden of surgical conditions and access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries
- Doruk Ozgediz et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050435
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Access to medicines versus access to treatment: the case of type 1 diabetes
- David Beran et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048710
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS
The Declaration of Helsinki and public health
- John R Williams
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050955
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