- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Global Health Politics: An Introduction
- The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000
- Globalisation and the Politics of Global Health
- The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of Power
- Critical Approaches to Global Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Security and Health
- Global Health and Human Security
- Critical Security Studies and Global Health
- Biosecurity and the Risk to Global Health
- Military Assistance during Health Emergencies
- Global Health and International Development
- The Politics of Gender and Global Health
- Global Health Governance
- The State and Global Health
- Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS Countries
- The Politics of Global Health Agenda Setting
- The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health
- Civil Society and Global Health Politics
- The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health Politics
- Philanthropy and Global Health
- Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of Health
- The Global Politics of Healthcare Reform
- Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global Health
- The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics
- Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital Borders
- The Politics of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- The Global Politics of HIV and AIDS
- The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies
- The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0
- Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Politics
- The Politics of Global Tobacco Control
- The Politics of Global Bioethical Frameworks
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter discusses how the human right to health could be and has been used to influence global health politics to place greater emphasis on the interests of all people. It explores whether this right is a norm to which states adhere, or could adhere, because they identify with its underlying values. Three important obstacles are addressed. Global HIV/AIDS activism used the right to health to pressure influential states into compliance on concrete measures and therefore defined an important element of the human right to health. Earlier attempts to use this right to influence global health politics failed to advance similarly concrete measures. Those who want to use the right to health in support of universal health coverage should understand the strengths and weaknesses of this tool and advocate for concrete measures rather than broad principles.
Keywords: human rights, global health politics, right to health, HIV/AIDS, universal health coverage
Gorik Ooms, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Rachel Hammonds, University of Antwerp
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- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Global Health Politics: An Introduction
- The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000
- Globalisation and the Politics of Global Health
- The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of Power
- Critical Approaches to Global Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Security and Health
- Global Health and Human Security
- Critical Security Studies and Global Health
- Biosecurity and the Risk to Global Health
- Military Assistance during Health Emergencies
- Global Health and International Development
- The Politics of Gender and Global Health
- Global Health Governance
- The State and Global Health
- Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS Countries
- The Politics of Global Health Agenda Setting
- The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health
- Civil Society and Global Health Politics
- The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health Politics
- Philanthropy and Global Health
- Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of Health
- The Global Politics of Healthcare Reform
- Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global Health
- The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics
- Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital Borders
- The Politics of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- The Global Politics of HIV and AIDS
- The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies
- The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0
- Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Politics
- The Politics of Global Tobacco Control
- The Politics of Global Bioethical Frameworks
- Index