Towards an Improved Understanding of the International Human Right to Health

Toebes, Brigit

doi:10.1353/hrq.1999.0044

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“…Such a definition of health has clear connections with basic human rights and this has resulted in recent years in an increasing momentum towards a rights-based approach to health (Gruskin, Grodin, Marks, & Annas, 2005;Smith-Nonini, 2006) as it is recognised that the right to health cannot be separated from human rights (Kirby, 1999;Leary, 1994;Toebes, 1999;Tomasevski, 2012 Nations, 1989). The right to health is accorded to all people even if it is a de jure right and not always de facto, as not all governments have signed onto these international instruments.…”

Section: Health Care As Common-rightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Care as Commons: An Indigenous Approach to Universal Health Coverage

Wong

Allotey

Reidpath

2014

iipj

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Modern health care systems of today are predominantly derived from Western models and are either state owned or under private ownership. Government, through their health policies, generally aim to facilitate access for the majority of the population through the design of their health systems. However, there are communities, such as Indigenous peoples, who do not necessarily fall under the formal protection of state systems. Throughout history, these societies have developed different ways to provide health care to its population. These health care systems are held and managed under different property regimes with their attendant advantages and disadvantages. This article investigates the gaps in health coverage among Indigenous peoples using the Malaysian Indigenous peoples as a case study. It conceptually examines a commons approach to health care systems through a study of the traditional health care system of indigenous peoples and suggests how such an approach can help close this gap in the remaining gaps of universal health coverage.

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Section: Health Care As Common-rightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Care as Commons: An Indigenous Approach to Universal Health Coverage

Wong

Allotey

Reidpath

2014

iipj

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“…31 However, the meaning and scope of the right to health lacks clear definition (Hendriks and Toebes, 1998;Toebes, 1999;Pollard and Savulescu, 2004). The lack of conceptual clarity plays itself out in the variegated access of irregular immigrants to healthcare in the UK.…”

Section: Access To Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating internal immigration control in the UK

Sitkin

2014

IJMBS

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Biographical notes: Lea Sitkin's academic research focuses on the organisation and effects of immigration controls, the relationship between neoliberalism, welfare and punishment and the development of precarious labour markets across Europe and the USA. Her doctoral research uses a comparative case study (UK and Germany) to interrogate materialist explanations for punitive transformations in immigration control in Europe. The thesis offers a historical analysis for why immigrant communities are policed differently in the two contexts. It also explores the role of underlying labour market variation (as described in the Varieties of Capitalism literature) on the construction of immigrants as vulnerable workers in the UK and Germany. Previous research has focused on the generalizability of Wacquant's Punishing the Poor (2009) to the European context. AbstractThe UK government has recently introduced measures to intensify the internal migration control regime by improving coordination between immigration authorities and third-party enforcement agents. The following paper describes the internal migration control regime in the UK, focusing on measures developed to impede irregular migrants' access to work, justice, healthcare, education and housing. It also explores the ways in which coordination between actors comprising the "immigration policing family" is hampered by administrative difficulties and, more fundamentally, by a lack of common goals. In response to these issues, successive UK governments have introduced sanctions for non-compliant enforcement agents, which are often discursively linked by immigration authorities to the notion of preventing third parties' exploitation of irregular migrants. However, ultimately it is the developing internal control regime which threatens irregular migrants' survival.

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“…17 The criterion for a patent to be granted is that the invention must be new, involve an inventive step and capable of industrial application. 18 Patents are designed to promote innovation, and, at the same time, offer a mechanism ensuring that the fruits of that innovation are accessible to 3 Toebes, B. (1999) society.…”

Section: Patentsmentioning

confidence: 99%