27. Homage to Cicely Williams
WN Feedback World Nutrition Volume 5, Number 4, April 2014 Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association Published monthly at www.wphna.org/worldnutrition/ Cicely Williams What she was like at home…
207 HEALTH CARE AS A RIGHT: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. (Part 1 of 3)
1. The progressive weakening of public health systems, the growing privatisation of health care and the erosion of universal access to health care are phenomena seen across the globe. The…
206 HEALTH SECTOR REFORM MEASURES: HAVE THEY WORKED?… AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? (Part 2 of 2)
11. Let it be understood here that there is nothing inherently wrong with market-oriented reforms in health, provided: a) They work in the direction of equity, as well as greater…
205 HEALTH SECTOR REFORM MEASURES: HAVE THEY WORKED?… AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? (Part 1 of 2)
1. If one is skeptical about whether health sector reforms (HSRs), pretty much applied worldwide, have worked, perhaps the time has come to be bold and to ask some hard…
204 THE PREAMBLE OF WHO’S CONSTITUTION UNEQUIVOCALLY STATES THAT THE ENJOYMENT OF THE HIGHEST ATTAINABLE STANDARD OF HEALTH IS ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF EVERY HUMAN BEING: IS WHO LIVING UP TO ITS MANDATE?
1. Weak health systems are infringing the human rights (HR) of both patients and health workers. Therefore, and because they are not currently doing so, health systems are to be…
203 SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG WITH THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY: OUR ELECTED LEADERS ARE FAR FROM TREATING (AND NOT ONLY LOOKING AT) POVERTY AS THE MOST IMPORTANT UNDERLYING CONDITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Poverty is a form of exile, of being cut off from the larger society –and this is a human rights issue. 1. Other than the World Bank’s and perhaps the…
202 IN THE SPIRIT OF THE PARIS DECLARATION ON DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, THE IMPROVEMENT OF FOREIGN AID IS NOT SEEN PURELY AS A TECHNICAL MATTER OF BETTER HARMONIZATION, BUT AS A POLITICAL QUEST TO MORE DECISIVELY FOCUS DEVELOPMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
1. Although the title of this Reader is more often than not forgotten, it is transparently clear. But after Paris, reforms are just not working; they have failed to tackle…
201 THE HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED FRAMEWORK IS HERE TO PUT RIGHT AVOIDABLE WRONGS WORLDWIDE
In terms of social justice, international borders are artificial, the struggles of people everywhere are the same. (S. Ahmed) 1. We have to start this Reader with a caveat: Depth…
200 A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED POVERTY LINE IS POSSIBLE: IT IS ONE THAT POINTS TO THE INCOME LEVEL AT WHICH HUMAN RIGHTS ARE FULFILLED IN PRACTICE IN EVERY PARTICULAR CONTEXT.
Hitherto, the definition and measurement of poverty is the province of economists and this has been instrumental in relegating poverty from a primary human rights concern to considerations such as…
199 HUMANRIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARE NOT ONLY ‘SOCIAL REGRETTABLES’.
A new social awareness has to be created about the fact that human rights violations are socially constructed events and must thus be tackled with public policies and actions nationally…