Global Health, Human Rights, and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies

An in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health.

Audrey R. Chapman (Author)

9781107088122, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 April 2016

356 pages
23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.66 kg

Written by a respected authority on human rights and public health, this book delivers an in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health. The author expertly explores the integration of social determinants into the right to health along with the methodologies and findings of social medicine and epidemiology. The author goes on to challenge the way that health care is currently provided and makes the case that achieving universal health coverage will require fundamental health systems reforms.

1. The right to health as an emergent human right
2. Evaluating interpretations of the right to health
3. Health and human rights in the neoliberal era
4. Private sector provision, health, and human rights
5. Globalization, health, and human rights
6. Achieving improved access to medicines
7. The social determinants of health, health equity, and human rights
8. Right to health perspectives on universal health care.

Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], International human rights law [LBBR], Law & society [LAQ], Law [L], Human rights [JPVH]