Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide (eBook, ePUB)

A Global Comparative Study
Redaktion: Flood, Colleen M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through a comparative global study of countries from all continents representing a diversity of health, legal, political, and economic systems, this book explores the role of health rights in advancing greater equality through access to health care. Does health care promote equality, or does it in fact advance the opposite result? Does inserting the idea of 'the right to health' into health systems allow the reinsertion of public values into systems that are undergoing privatization? Or does it allow for private claims to be re-articulated as 'rights', in a way that actually reinforces inequality? This volume includes studies from countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands, China, and Nigeria, among many others, and authors with expertise in the legal and health systems of their countries, making this a seminal study that allows readers to see the differing role of rights in various health systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139985666
• Artikelnr.: 52845404

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: marrying human rights and health care systems: contexts for a
power to improve access and equity Colleen M. Flood and Aeyal Gross; Part
I. National Public Health Systems (Tax Financed): 1. Litigating a right to
healthcare in New Zealand Joanna Manning; 2. The right to health in Sweden
Anna-Sara Lind; 3. Litigating health rights in Canada: a white knight for
equity? Colleen M. Flood; 4. Promoting access and equity in health -
assessing the National Health Service in England Chris Newdick; Part II.
Social Health Insurance Systems: 5. Colombia's right to health litigation
in a context of healthcare reform Everaldo Lamprea; 6. Health rights in
Israel between solidarity and neo-liberalism Aeyal Gross; 7. Health care
access in the Netherlands: the true story Andre den Exter; 8. Addressing
equity in health care at the public-private intersection: the role of
health rights enforcement in Hungary Maria Eva Foldes; 9. Lending a helping
hand: the impact of constitutional interpretation on Taiwan's national
health insurance program, health equity and distributive justice Y. Y.
Chen; Part III. Mixed Private/Public Systems: 10. Health rights at the
juncture between state and market: the People's Republic of China Christina
S. Ho; 11. The role of rights and litigation in assuring more equitable
access to health care in South Africa Lisa Forman and Jerome Amir Singh;
12. Provision of health care services and the right to health in Brazil:
the long, winding and uncertain road to equality Mariana Prado; 13. A
vision of an emerging right to health care in the United States: expanding
health care equity through legislative reform Allison Hoffman; 14. The
legal protection and enforcement of health rights in Nigeria Remigius
Nwabueze; 15. Litigating the right to health in Venezuela: a
non-justiciable right (?) in the context of a deficient health care system
Oscar A. Cabrera and Fanny Gómez; 16. Right to health in India: addressing
inequities through litigation Anand Grover, Maitreyi Misra and Lubhyathi
Rangarajan; Conclusion: context for the promise and peril of the right to
health Colleen M. Flood and Aeyal Gross.