Engaging with the Right to Health: Ethnographic Explorations of the Right to Health in Practice

摘要

Over the past 25 years, right to health legislation and policies have gained prominence in health systems around the world. Following the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as the International Conference on Primary Health Care that led to the Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978, right to health language began to appear in national constitutions and in specific health-care policies and programs in response to local and global concerns around health inequalities. However, serious questions remain about how right to health principles should be implemented, the potential effects of such implementation, and whether governments can guarantee the right to health through legal mechanisms.