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Litigating health rights : can courts bring more justice to health / edited by Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen.
- Title
- Litigating health rights : can courts bring more justice to health / edited by Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen.
- Publication
- Cambridge, MA : Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School : Harvard University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- viii, 435 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- From the publisher. The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of health rights cases focusing on issues such as access to health services and essential medications. This volume examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable for these obligations. It includes case studies from Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, as well as chapters that address cross-cutting themes. The authors analyze what types of services and interventions have been the subject of successful litigation and what remedies have been ordered by courts. Different chapters address the systemic impact of health litigation efforts, taking into account who benefits both directly and indirectly -- and what the overall impacts on health equity are.
- Series Statement
- Human Rights Program series
- Subject
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Human Rights > legislation & jurisprudence
- Health Policy > legislation & jurisprudence
- Health Services Accessibility > legislation & jurisprudence
- Medical care > Law and legislation
- Right to health
- Health services accessibility
- Medical policy
- Right to health > Cross-cultural studies
- Health services accessibility > Cross-cultural studies
- Health Services Accessibility
- Health Policy
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: can litigation bring justice to health / Siri Gloppen and Mindy Jane Roseman -- Litigating health rights: framing the analysis / Siri Gloppen -- Argentina: courts and the right to health -- achieving fairness despite "routinization" in individual coverage cases / Paola Bergallo -- Brazil: health inequalities, rights, and courts -- the social impact of the "judicialization of health" / Octavio L. Motta Ferraz -- Colombia: judicial protection of the right to health -- an elusive promise / Alicia Ely Yamin, Oscar Parra-Vera, and Camila Gianella -- Costa Rica: health rights litigation -- causes and consequences / Bruce M. Wilson -- India: citizens, courts, and the right to health -- between promise and progress / Sharanjeet Parmar and Namita Wahi -- South Africa: health rights litigation -- cautious constitutionalism / Carole Cooper -- Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights: some initial arguments / Roberto Gargarella -- Litigating the right to health: are transnational actors backseat driving / Mindy Jane Roseman and Siri Gloppen -- Assessing the impact of health rights litigation: a comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, and South Africa / Ottar Mstad, Lise Rakner, and Octavio L. Motta Ferraz -- Litigating for medicines: how can we assess impact on health outcomes / Ole Frithjof Norheim and Siri Gloppen -- Power, suffering, and courts: reflections on promoting health rights through judicialization / Alicia Ely Yamin.
- ISBN
- 9780979639555
- 0979639557
- LCCN
- ^^2011017921
- OCLC
- 676725395
- SCSB-11226041
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library