Research Catalog

Title

Rights-based approaches to public health / Elvira Beracochea, Corey Weinstein, Dabney P. Evans, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beracochea, Elvira
• Weinstein, Corey
• Evans, Dabney P.

Description

xx, 394 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Health care reform
• Right to health
• Public health > Social aspects
• Health Care Reform > methods
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Human Rights
• Internationality
• Organizational Case Studies
• Public Health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : why do rights-based approaches to health matter? / Elvira Beracochea, Dabney P. Evans, and Corey Weinstein -- Rights-based approaches to public health systems / Benjamin Mason Meier ... [et al.] -- Rights-based approaches and health disparities in the United States / Roshni D. Persaud -- A rights-based approach to health care reform / Anja Rudiger and Benjamin Mason Meier -- Rights-based approaches and millennium development goals / Elvira Beracochea, Monika Sawhney, and Ujwal Chhetry -- Global plans of action for health / George Kent -- Ethical issues and rights-based approaches : balancing dual loyalties / Leslie London, Leonard Rubenstein, and Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven -- A rights-based approach to research : assessing the right to water in Haiti / Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Amanda M. Klasing -- Using the right to food to teach human rights / George Kent -- Human rights and women's health / Padmini Murthy and Dhrubajyoti (Dru) Bhattacharya -- A rights-based approach to children's health / Nichola Cadge -- Human rights and HIV prevention among drug users / Salaam Semaan ... [et al.] --
• Rights-based approaches in conflict-affected settings / Emily Waller ... [et al.] -- Promoting human rights in public health programs : lessons learned from HealthRight International / Vandana Tripathi, Mehlika Ozden Hoodbhoy, and Mila Rosenthal -- Operationalizing rights-based approaches to health : the case of CARE in Peru / Ariel Frisancho, Jay Goulden, and Helene D. Gayle -- Liberation medicine and accompaniment in El Salvador : the experience of doctors for global health / Jennifer Kasper and Clyde Lanford (Lanny) Smith -- The right to clean air : the U.S. Clean Air Act's approach / David P. Novello -- Peer education in prison : a rights-based approach / Kathy Boudin and Corey Weinstein -- Rights-based approaches to community development : a case study of the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans / Ann Yoachim and Charles Allen III -- Rights-based approaches in conflict settings : examples from Nepal and Israel/Palestine / Neil Arya, Judy Kitts, and Khagendra Dahal -- Rights-based approaches to essential medicines / Elvira Beracochea and David Lee -- Conclusion : rights-based approaches in public health / Elvira Beracochea, Dabney P. Evans, and Corey Weinstein.

ISBN

• 9780826105691
• 0826105696
• 9780826105707 (e-book)
• 082610570X (e-book)

LCCN

2010040005

OCLC

• ocn601067222
• 601067222
• SCSB-8855490

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries