While not universally embraced, the notion that health care systems are public goods protecting an inalienable right of all human beings is increasingly invoked in debates about health care financing,…
OPERA: A step by step framework for assessing compliance 30. Given the fact that exclusion and disempowerment often breed bias, claim holders are not recognized as key players in all…
1. For the fulfillment of human rights (HR), the obstacles to be overcome are actually way beyond what the core of economic globalization, i.e., the free market, can overcome and…
As progress towards the MDGs is achieved, there yet is little evidence of results that are inclusive of people that are discriminated 18. Despite the lack of data, the evidence…
EQUITY: 1. Equity is a core legal concept intimately linked to the notion of justice. It goes beyond the letter of the law and is considered part of natural law/natural…
“If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal”. (Emma Goldman as cited by M. Engler) The power of organization (communities) 20. Community organizing for democracy means building up organizations…
-In the name of democracy, too many promises remain unfulfilled for the poor majority; lingering poverty and a lack of transparent democratic processes flagrantly contradict the state’s rhetoric. There is…
-The same way you find water when you dig, sooner or later, man finds the incomprehensible everywhere. (A. Lichtenberg) -Because they are closed thought systems, the supposed advantage of all…
Nowadays, public health and the right to health have come to mean too many things to different people 15. Public health is a specialty in which health practitioners should have…
-Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. (Martin Luther King) -Health is not a matter of merely personal interest, but a…