Health care as a universal right
Health care as a universal right - PMC
The main objective of this study is to suggest the foundations for a universal right to health care, meaning the right of access to health care of appropriate ...
Human rights - World Health Organization (WHO)
Universal health coverage (UHC) grounded in primary health care helps countries realize the right to health by ensuring all people have ...
Health Care As a Human Right - American Bar Association
The only remedy to our lack of access to health care is to stop confusing health insurance with health care. Health is not a commodity; it is a right.
Health care is a human right—and that means universal access
Abortion rights are just the latest casualty of US failure to ensure universal and equitable access to healthcare.
Healthcare is a Human Right | Amnesty International USA
Healthcare is a Human Right. Universal access to health care, without discrimination, is a human right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...
Health is a fundamental human right
Everyone has the right to privacy and to be treated with respect and dignity. Nobody should be subjected to medical experimentation, forced ...
The American Academy of Family Physicians recognizes health as a basic human right for every person regardless of social, economic or political status.
Universal Healthcare: A Basic Human Right
APWU urges members of Congress to stand up for universal healthcare and co-sponsor important legislation to cover all Americans.
Promoting Health as a Human Right in the Post-ACA United States
A right to health encompasses a right to provision of social measures (in WHO terms) such as sufficient food and drinking water, adequate housing and working ...
Right to Health – WMA - The World Medical Association
The Right to Health: A Human Right Enshrined in International Human Rights Law ... The right to health was first articulated in the WHO Constitution (1946) which ...
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights also mentioned health as ... human right to medical care. Finally, migrants' right to health is closely ...
Health care in the United States—basic human right or entitlement?
Constitutional rights to health, public health and medical care: the status of health protections in 191 countries.
Health Care in the United States and the Affordable Care Act
The United States does not recognize a basic human right to health care and is unlikely to do so anytime soon. The 2010 Affordable Care Act, however, brought us ...
The Right to Health: Looking beyond Health Facilities - PMC
The social, economic, and political conditions that enable individuals to access health services and maintain a healthy life must be put in place to facilitate ...
About the right to health and human rights | OHCHR
The right to health contains both freedoms and entitlements. Freedoms include the right to control one's health, including the right to be free from non- ...
Universal Health Coverage Overview - World Bank
All people aspire to receive quality, affordable health care. Universal health ... "Achieving Universal Health Coverage is every child's right." Janti ...
Is Health Care a Right? | The New Yorker
Before I entered the field of public health, where it's a given that health care is a right and not a privilege, I had grown up steeped in a set ...
Health Care Is a Human Right - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Health care is a human right in part because health – or more accurately, bad health – can permeate every area of a person's life. It can even ...
A Right or a Privilege? How to Practically and Ethically Reconcile ...
Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists medical care as a basic human right. In addition, Pope Francis has ...
Health as a Human Right: A Position Paper From the American ...
ACP views health as a human right. Central to human rights theory and law are United Nations documents, including Article 25 of the Universal ...