A Human Rights Approach to Public Health: WHO Capacity Building in the Area of Children's Rights

Türmen, Tomris; Troedsson, Hans; Stahlhofer, Marcus

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“…As part of a comprehensive approach to health and human rights on both national and regional levels, the World Health Organization (WHO) has committed itself to strengthening the incorporation of human rights into healthcare systems and policies. This is being done through capacity building within the WHO and its Member States through advocacy and through advancing the right to health in international law and international developmental processes (PAHO WHO, 2019;Türmen et al, 2001). Low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as South Africa, however, still encounter great challenges to this vital human right (Humanium, 2016).…”

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Understanding Critical Concepts in Engaged Research: The Case of a Rural Health Development Project in South Africa

Duxbury¹,

Paphitis²,

Bezerra³

et al. 2020

Qualitative Research: Practices and Challenges

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Inadequate health coverage to rural areas is exacerbated by persisting socio-historical and economic barriers to rural health development, i.e. social and epistemic injustices such as poverty, racism, lack of education, and the effects of apartheid. Following this, the analysis of community health variables requires us to deploy complex conceptual models in our research approaches. In the case of rural health development presented in this chapter, we propose that an engaged research approach, underpinned by a complex conceptual model, is required to both properly understand and address rural health. Through an engaged research project pharmacists and fellow healthcare practitioners can understand the variables that determine community health and it can thereafter be harnessed and adapted for health development. This chapter promotes the integration of engaged research concepts, asset-based community development, culture and the transformative paradigm, epistemic justice, health promotion, and health literacy in developing rural health within a South African context.

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Section: Introduction and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%