Rights-based Approaches to Public Health - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826105696 ISBN 13: 9780826105691

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Many public health practitioners and students struggle with the true meaning and practical application of rights-based approaches in their work. This volume presents examples of public health programs utilizing right-based approaches so health services can reach those that are in most need. This book helps readers appreciate public health programs utilizing rights-based approaches and adapt those approaches for use in their own careers. Although evidence-based best practices for right-based approaches have not been documented until now, the tools and case studies presented in this book will provide the best models available. Case studies will include public health programs employing participatory methods, with an emphasis on the principles of evidence and results, non-discrimination, dignity and correlation to international human rights documents. Examples are taken from both domestic and international programs. The book outlines broad issues involved in health and human rights, including women's rights, environmental issues such as the right to healthy food, air, and water. Additionally, the book examines professional obligations and roles, and offers specific case studies from organizations and practitioners around the world. Finally, the book looks at systemic and policy implications of a rights-based approach to public health.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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""With great timing, the editors of Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health offer a targeted and innovative strategy to combat global health problems. Balanced, comprehensive, and steeped in the historical traditions of human rights, the book persuasively moves the reader from abstract conceptions of inalienable human rights to evidence-based, pragmatic solutions that highlight the systematic integration of human rights principles in human development work.""--PsycCRITIQUES

""The human rights framework as eloquently described in this book offers a new way for us to think about how we approach our work: from deciding when and how to intervene, to how we plan, the goals we establish, and the metrics we use to gauge the success of our efforts. Public health instructors will find many of the chapters useful for illustrating, in very concrete ways, the link between human rights and public health, providing students (and practitioners) with a new framework for analyzing public health topics and for designing and evaluating interventions. Ultimately, civil rights and civil liberties are only of value when exercised. This book will contribute to the advance of human rights by leading increasing numbers of public health practitioners to advocate for, and promote, their realization.""Score: 95, 4 stars --Doody's Medical Reviews

""Rights Based Approaches to Public Health provides a new perspective on addressing public health problems. It is an evidence based and cutting edge approach that provides important insights into solving ethical dilemmas. It is essential reading for anyone interested in ensuring health equity and justice.""
Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP
Executive Director of the American Public Health Association

""At root, those working in health and human rights are both animated by a similar concern: the well-being of individuals and populations. The book will be an invaluable asset to both communities as they work to achieve their common goal.""

From the foreword by Paul Hunt

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health
(2002-2008)

Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health presents a variety of public health professionals who utilize rights-based approaches in their work, the challenges they face, and the lessons they have learned.

This expansive volume includes rights-based approaches with a variety of populations and across international settings. It explores environmental issues such as the right to clean air, water, and food. It examines the rights of the vulnerable, including women and children. It also includes work in difficult locations, such as prisons, high-conflict areas, and New Orleans post-Katrina. The useful tools and diverse case studies in this text provide the best models available for those interested in implementing or furthering a rights-based agenda.

Key Features:

• Contains an overview of the key international documents regarding the right to health
• Provides an exploration of the efficacy of rights-based approaches to health
• Covers professional and ethical issues in rights-based approaches
• Presents systemic and policy implications, including a rights-based approach to health care reform
• Includes global case studies from a wide variety of noted organizations and practitioners

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About the Author:

<b>Elvira Beracochea, MD. MPH, </b>has over 24 years of experience as an international development project manager and coach in over 30 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South Pacific. Her work centers on the right to health and ensuring the right to quality health services for every woman, man and child. She is a speaker, writer and consultant and founder, president and CEO of MIDEGO, Inc., a consulting firm that provides innovative global public health and international development solutions for reaching the Millennium development goals. She is a member of the International Human Rights Committee of the APHA.||<b>Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP, </b>has practiced medicine in California for 35 years. In 1975 he co-founded the Hering Family Health Clinic in Berkeley. In the early 1990s Dr. Weinstein began working as a correctional medical consultant and earned his Certification as a Correctional Provider from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. He is a founder of California Prison Focus, a 16 year old community based human rights organization that works with prisoners in California's high security prisons. As an Emeritus Board Member of CPF he directs the Dignity for Women Prisoners Campaign. He serves as the Chair of the International Human Rights Committee of the American Public Health Association and was on the Task Force that wrote the 2003 APHA Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions.|<b>Dabney Evans, MPH, CHES</b> is Executive Director of the Emory University Institute of Human Rights. She received her MPH in 1998. Since that time she has served a lecturer in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dabney teaches courses in ""Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Human Rights"" and ""Health and Human Rights."" She is faculty advisor to two student groups: Physicians for Human Rights based in the Emory University Medical School and the International Student Association for Health and Human Rights based in the Rollins School of Public Health. In addition, Dabney has served as a training instructor to more than 1,000 public health practitioners from over 20 countries. Dabney was conference planning chair of the international conference, ""Lessons Learned from Rights Based Approaches to Health"" which brought together more than 350 participants from 40 countries in April 2005. Currently, Dabney is working on the development of two Health and Human Rights databases in collaboration with the Department of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law of the World Health Organization

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0826105696
• ISBN 13: 9780826105691
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Beracochea Elvira, Weinstein Corey, Evans Dabney P.