Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights

Product Description

Human rights are essential to global health, yet rising threats in an increasingly divided world are challenging the progressive evolution of health-related human rights. It is necessary to empower a new generation of scholars, advocates, and practitioners to sustain the global commitment to
universal rights in public health. Looking to the next generation to face the struggles ahead, this book provides a detailed understanding of the evolving relationship between global health and human rights, laying a human rights foundation for the advancement of transformative health policies,
programs, and practices.

International human rights law has been repeatedly shown to advance health and wellbeing – empowering communities and fostering accountability for realizing the highest attainable standard of health. This book provides a compelling examination of international human rights as essential for advancing
public health. It demonstrates how human rights strengthens human autonomy and dignity, while placing clear responsibilities on government to safeguard the public’s health and safety.

Bringing together leading academics in the field of health and human rights, this volume: (1) explains the norms and principles that define the field, (2) examines the methods and tools for implementing human rights to promote health, (3) applies essential human rights to leading public health
threats, and (4) analyzes rising human rights challenges in a rapidly globalizing world. This foundational text shows why interdisciplinary scholarship and action are essential for health-related human rights, placing human rights at the center of public health and securing a future of global health
with justice.

Review

“This edited book pioneers the interdisciplinary field of international human rights law and global health governance. It argues that global governance regimes have created and built a legal framework where health-related rights are explicit, protected and are advocated for by individuals and
communities across the world.” — Sabine I. Franklin, University of Westminster,
Medicine, Conflict and Survival

From the Back Cover

Human rights are essential to global health, yet rising threats in an increasingly divided world are challenging the progressive evolution of health-related human rights. It is necessary to empower a new generation of scholars, advocates, and practitioners to sustain the global commitment to universal rights in public health. Looking to the next generation to face the struggles ahead, this book provides a detailed understanding of the evolving relationship between global health and human rights, laying a human rights foundation for the advancement of
health policies, programs, and practices
.

Bringing together leading academics in the field of health and human rights, this volume: (1) explains the norms and principles that define the field, (2) examines the methods and tools for implementing human rights to promote health, (3) applies essential human rights to leading public health threats, and (4) analyzes rising human rights challenges in a rapidly globalizing world. This foundational text frames interdisciplinary scholarship and action in health-related human rights, revitalizing human rights at the center of public health and securing a future of global health with justice.

“Our current global challenges demand that human rights be at the forefront of the struggle for health. By examining the development, implementation, and application of human rights, this seminal interdisciplinary text provides a hopeful resource for bringing together health and human rights practitioners throughout the world, addressing the inequalities and power imbalances that underlie global health.” 

Michelle Bachelet

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

“Human rights underpin global health, but why and how they do so remain highly contested. As tides of political populism sweep over our world, th