The Evolution of Human Rights in World Health Organization Policy and the Future of Human Rights Through Global Health Governance

Meier, Benjamin Mason; Onzivu, William

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“…WHO enlisted its first human rights advisor to operationalise a rightsbased approach in its programmes and collaborate with the UN human rights system. 27 At the turn of the millennium, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, charged with overseeing ICESCR implementation, adopted general comment 14, providing an authoritative interpretation of the right to health. 28 The general comment went beyond preventive and curative health care to address underlying determi nants of health beyond the health sector, including food, housing, work, education, nondis crimination, and equality.…”

Section: Human Rights Reinterpreted For a Globalising Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future

Gostin

Meier

Thomas³

et al. 2018

The Lancet

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Section: Human Rights Reinterpreted For a Globalising Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future

Gostin

Meier

Thomas³

et al. 2018

The Lancet

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“…In particular, this scholarship illuminates how global health is more than just a technical pursuit; rather, “health policies, practices, and outcomes occupy politically contested spaces,” and global health governance is influenced by political considerations (Davies et al, , p. 829). IR scholars who work on global health topics have thus studied the influences of international economic and business developments (Roemer‐Mahler, ), the political nature of modern medicine and medical practices (Howell, ), and the implementation of global policy agendas by national governments (Brown, ), as well as the framing of global health issues (McInnes & Lee, ) and the evolution of human rights conceptualizations in global health governance (Meier & Onzivu, ). IR perspectives have also been applied to different geographic regions and an array of global health issues, that is, HIV/AIDS, pandemic influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.…”

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Cross‐Border Reproductive Care: Two Lenses in Political Science

Stapleton¹,

Skinner²

2018

World Med & Health Policy

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Cross‐border reproductive care (CBRC)—when patients travel outside their country to seek assisted reproductive services—is a booming industry. Globalization facilitates the increase in CBRC by reducing transportation costs, removing language barriers, and liberalizing the reproductive services market. Yet global and domestic regulatory responses are failing to keep pace, raising ethical, economic, political, and social issues. Political science has been slow to contribute to our understanding of CBRC politics and policies. This article first establishes the gap in existing CBRC research, before presenting how political scientists can respond in two specific areas: 1) the role of globalization health governance in relation to CBRC and 2) the political implications and potentials of “medical necessity” in shaping patient motivations for seeking—as well as their ultimate access to—CBRC. New research in these areas will aid policymakers in recognizing the context in which they must develop CBRC regulations.

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“…Although the PASB began its mainstreaming efforts at approximately the same time as the WHO Secretariat and other regional offices, with similar aims and strategies governing their respective activities, PAHO has achieved greater incorporation of human rights in health policy and programming than other institutions. 129 With limited coordination or support across institutions of global health governance, these independent PAHO efforts have served the UN's goal of mainstreaming a rights-based approach to health in the Americas -working through the Bureau's technical units, national health ministries, the OAS human rights system, and the PAHO Directing Council. This Part analyzes the structural determinants that facilitated this rights-based approach to health in PAHO and considers generalizable themes for the implementation of human rights through regional health governance.…”

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The Pan American Health Organization and the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance

Meier¹,

Ayala

2014

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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In the absence of centralized human rights leadership in an increasingly fragmented global health policy landscape, regional health offices have stepped forward to advance the rights-based approach to health. Reviewing the efforts of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), this article explores the evolution of human rights in PAHO policy, assesses efforts to mainstream human rights in the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), and analyzes the future of the rights-based approach through regional health governance, providing lessons for other regional health offices and global health institutions. This article explores PAHO's 15-year effort to mainstream human rights through PASB technical units, national capacity-building, the Inter-American human rights system, and the PAHO Directing Council. Through documentary analysis of PAHO policies and semi-structured interviews with key PASB stakeholders, the authors analyze the understandings and actions of policymakers and technical officers in implementing human rights through PAHO governance. Analyzing the themes arising from this narrative, the authors examine the structural role of secretariat leadership, state support, legal expertise, and technical unit commitment in facilitating a rights-based approach to the health in the Americas. Human rights are increasingly framing PAHO efforts, and this analysis of the structures underlying PAHO's approach provides an understanding of the institutional determinants of the rights-based approach to health, highlighting generalizable themes for the mainstreaming of human rights through regional health governance. With this regional-level understanding of health governance, future national-level research can begin to understand the causal forces linking regional human rights work with national policy reforms and public health outcomes.

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The Evolution of Human Rights in World Health Organization Policy and the Future of Human Rights Through Global Health Governance

Cited by 4 publications

References 49 publications

70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future

70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future

Cross‐Border Reproductive Care: Two Lenses in Political Science

The Pan American Health Organization and the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance

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