Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches (Director's Circle Book) - Softcover

 
9780801886478: Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches (Director's Circle Book)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801886473 ISBN 13: 9780801886478
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populations—from repressive laws to social discord, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and violations in conflict.

Divided into three sections, this provocative work investigates how the complex interactions between rights and health can best be studied, analyzed, and remedied; how the efforts of human rights advocates affect health outcomes; and how modern public health procedures can assist in documenting, understanding, and preventing human rights violations. Part I illuminates the powerful relationship between rights work and public health practice in Thailand, Russia, Burma, and China and in U.S. prisons. Part II explores new methodologies and new uses of previous practices for rights-based public health research. Part III confronts current policy approaches—such as Brazil's integration of rights, HIV/AIDS programming, and the contradictory and confounding global policies on illicit drugs—and offers recommendations for future programs and strategies.

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About the Authors

Chris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of epidemiology and international health, director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, and associate director of the Center for Global Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

H. F. Pizer is the cofounder and principal of Health Care Strategies, Inc., and author, coauthor, or editor of thirteen medical books.

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801886473
ISBN 13 
9780801886478
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
512
Editor
Beyrer Chris

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