Global Health and Human Rights

Principles and Practices
Herausgeber: Hamelink, Cees J; Visser, Marlies J; Essink, Dirk R

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Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating textbook explores public health and individual healthcare through the prism of global human rights and ethical decision-making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9781032528571
• ISBN-10: 1032528575
• Artikelnr.: 71599078

Autorenporträt

Cees J. Hamelink is Athena Professor of Globalisation, Public Health and Human Rights at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is Emeritus Professor of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor of Theology and Communication at the VU Amsterdam. He has published 21 academic monographs, and his most recent book (2023) is on communication and human rights. Dirk R. Essink is Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focusing on health systems and transdisciplinarity. His research, concentrated in Vietnam, Lao PDR, Ethiopia and South Sudan, explores the integration of knowledge for public health policy and transformations. Dirk's work emphasises social justice, covering quality of care in humanitarian settings, infectious disease control and sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and research agenda setting. He is skilled in transdisciplinary, mixed methods research. Marlies J. Visser is a researcher and lecturer at the Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is an experienced qualitative researcher and in that capacity has coordinated and contributed to various research projects addressing social determinants of health and access to health care, with a particular emphasis on stigma and discrimination in relation to both physical and mental health conditions and sexual and reproductive health.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I.Introduction to Global Health and Human Rights.
1.International Human Rights. 2.An Introduction to Global Health. 3.The
Right to Health. Appendix A. 4.Towards Human Rights Ethics: Marrying
Intuitionism, Reasoning and Communication. Part II.Health and Human Rights
of Othered and Marginalised Groups. 5.Sexual and Reproductive Health and
Rights: A Perspective on Gender Bias and Stereotyping in Health.
6.Disability and Human Rights. 7.Mental Health and Psychiatric Care.
8.Children and the Right to Health. 9.Elderly People and the Right to
Health. 10.Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights and Health. Part III.Future
Challenges in Global Health and Human Rights. 11.Public Health Emergencies,
Pandemics and Human Rights. 12.Technology and the Right to Health.
13.Planning for the Future. Epilogue.