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THE RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE IN THE

Webof putative “choices”, the U.S. health care system frequently delivers inadequate and poor quality health care, and entails wasteful expenditures on administrative and litigation …

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The Right to Health in the United States — Center for Economic …

WebThe US health care system falls short of international standards for the right to health (2004). The Right to Health in the United States — Center for Economic and Social …

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The right to health vs. the market: Rejecting the false dichotomy

WebThe Constitutional Court’s decision is timely given the debates around the right to health vs Big Pharma’s more tenuous “rights” to intellectual property. Now is the time …

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Egypt Social Progress Indicators: Health — Center for Economic …

WebThe Egypt Social Progress Indicators (ESPI) on Health demonstrate that despite Egypt’s general progress on health outcomes, gaps persist that reflect entrenched patterns of …

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Invest in the Care Economy for a Just, Green, Feminist COVID-19

WebAs the pandemic exposes the weaknesses of underfunded health systems around the world, the collective burdens that are frequently shouldered by women …

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Death by a million cuts: what future for the right to health in Italy

WebIn 2012, the Italian government passed a series of decree laws reducing total public health financing by €900 million in 2012, €1.8 billion in 2013 and a further €2 …

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Health and Welfare in Iraq after the Gulf Crisis: An In-Depth

WebIn September 1991, CESR directors organized a 87-person international mission (the International Study Team ) to conduct the most comprehensive studies in …

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A Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 Demands Redistributive …

WebFiscal policy is a key tool to strengthen healthcare systems and tackle COVID-19, after years of deterioration due to austerity measures. Fiscal policy is also …

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19 RECOVERING COVID RIGHTS

WebThe economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are spreading across the globe as quickly as the virus itself. The idea that the virus is a “great equalizer” between rich and poor …

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The MDGs, A Decade On: Keeping the Promise, Fulfilling Rights

WebThe health-related goals (MDGs 4, 5 and 6) could justifiably be seen as the most urgent priority, as they directly implicate the right to life, as well as core obligations …

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EGYPT SOCIAL PROGRESS INDICATORS

Webon topics including economic policy, health, urbanization and labor.1 Combined, they give an overall snapshot of progress on the commitments to advancing wellbeing in Egypt’s …

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Egypt Social Progress Indicators Reveal How Austerity Feeds Gross

WebEntrenched inequalities threaten health gains . Although Egypt is performing well on key international outcome indicators—such as child and maternal mortality …

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All Risk and No Reward: How the Government and Mine …

WebOver the course of the project, the Botswana Miners Right to Health Project Team engaged in extensive desk research, and conducted interviews and focus groups …

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OPERA IN PRACTICE: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH OF

WebPrevalence of occupational health risks due to the absence of clear and concrete national legislation, policy and guidelines undermines miners’ and ex-miners’ ability to enjoy their …

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Kenya rights body issues call on reproductive health

WebOn May 3 2012, the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) released the findings of its national public inquiry into sexual and reproductive health. The inquiry, …

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TOPIC 12 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE IMF’S COVID RESPONSE

WebThe International Monetary Fund is playing a major role in shaping economic and public health responses to the pandemic, including by extending grants and loans. So far, its …

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Adequate Standard of Living

WebThe right to an adequate standard of living encompasses several morespecific rights, including the right to food, the right to health, theright to water, the right to …

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PERU AGENDA 2030 IN PERU: VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEW

Webin EIB. With regard to health, Peru has designed plans to overcome the excessive centralization of the healthcare system in the coastal region, for example, in cancer …

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Human Rights and Poverty: Is poverty a violation of human …

Webhealth, and political power --- who are most vulnerable to severe abuses of their human rights.”18 Answering the question of whether poverty itself is a violation of human rights …

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All Risk and No Reward for Botswana’s Miners

WebThe report identifies a number of critical issues related to the right to health that miners and ex-miners face, by intermingling their own testimonies and personal …

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