A Human Rights Based Approach to Health
Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights
Information, Evidence and Research (IER/ETH) - World Health Organization
Available online at: http://bit.ly/9D91mp
“……A human rights-based approach (HRBA) aims to support better and more sustainable development outcomes by analyzing and addressing the inequalities, discriminatory practices (de jure and de facto) and unjust power relations which are often at the heart of development problems.
Under a human rights-based approach, development efforts are anchored in a system of rights and corresponding State obligations established by international law. Civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights provide a guiding framework for development plans, policies and processes. A HRBA also appreciates the importance of capacity development ….”
Three types of State obligations:
· Respect: not to interfere directly or indirectly with the enjoyment of the right to health, e.g. refrain from limiting access to health-care services or marketing unsafe drugs.
· Protect: prevent third parties from interfering with the right to health, e.g. ensure that private companies provide safe environmental conditions for their employees and surrounding communities
· Fulfil: adopt appropriate legislative, administrative, budgetary, judicial, promotional and other measures to fully realize the right to health.
Related material:
Human Rights, Health and Poverty Reduction Strategies" is intended to provide a tool for health policy-makers to design, implement and monitor a poverty reduction strategy through a human rights-based approach.
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The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the WHO have issued a fact sheet on the Right to Health. The fact sheet aims to shed light on the right to health in international human rights law as it currently stands, amidst the plethora of initiatives and proposals of what the right to health may or should be. It illustrates implications for specific individuals and groups, elaborates upon States' obligations and ends with an overview of national, regional and international accountability and monitoring mechanisms.
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Promoting and protecting health and respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights are inextricably linked.
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