Health, human rights, and trade-offs
Health, human rights, and trade-offs
Health and human rights may relate in several ways. One possibility is that health or a set of health-related goods and services are objects of human rights. Advocates for these ‘health rights’ claim and seek recognition of entitlements to and corresponding duties to provide health simpliciter, healthcare, or public health. Legal health rights are recognized in international law and several states. However, such rights have a mixed history of furthering health justice. Purported moral health rights claims then raise several theoretical and practical challenges. This chapter provides an overview of some major debates about health rights before focusing on a general issue concerning socio-economic rights that health rights exemplify well, namely, how to determine whether, how, and when to weigh competing moral interests.
Health Rights, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Socio-Economic Rights, Social Rights, Right to Health, Right to Health Care
Da Silva, Michael
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Da Silva, Michael
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Da Silva, Michael
(2024)
Health, human rights, and trade-offs.
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Health and human rights may relate in several ways. One possibility is that health or a set of health-related goods and services are objects of human rights. Advocates for these ‘health rights’ claim and seek recognition of entitlements to and corresponding duties to provide health simpliciter, healthcare, or public health. Legal health rights are recognized in international law and several states. However, such rights have a mixed history of furthering health justice. Purported moral health rights claims then raise several theoretical and practical challenges. This chapter provides an overview of some major debates about health rights before focusing on a general issue concerning socio-economic rights that health rights exemplify well, namely, how to determine whether, how, and when to weigh competing moral interests.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 June 2024
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Health Rights, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights, Socio-Economic Rights, Social Rights, Right to Health, Right to Health Care
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