Global Health, Human Rights, and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies

by Audrey R. Chapman

Overview

Written by a respected authority on human rights and public health, this book delivers an in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health. The author expertly explores the integration of social determinants into the right to health along with the methodologies and findings of social medicine and epidemiology. The author goes on to challenge the way that health care is currently provided and makes the case that achieving universal health coverage will require fundamental health systems reforms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107458482
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/11/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	355
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Audrey R. Chapman currently holds the Healey Endowed Chair at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute. She previously served as the Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Human Rights Program and on expert committees appointed by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and the UNESCO human rights program.

Table of Contents

1. The right to health as an emergent human right; 2. Evaluating interpretations of the right to health; 3. Health and human rights in the neoliberal era; 4. Private sector provision, health, and human rights; 5. Globalization, health, and human rights; 6. Achieving improved access to medicines; 7. The social determinants of health, health equity, and human rights; 8. Right to health perspectives on universal health care.