Abstract
The human right to health is a critical legal tool to achieve health justice, and universal health coverage is included among the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the content and meaning of the right to health may not be used adequately in public health research. We conducted a scoping review of the literature to discover the extent to which the legal principles underlying the right to health are used in public health. We mapped the various attempts to assess implementation of this right since its legal content was clarified in 2000.The first studies emerged in 2006, with an increase and a wider variety of investigations since 2015. We observe that some key principles do form the basis of right-to-health assessments, but some concepts remain unfamiliar. Critically, public health academics may have limited access to human rights research on health, which creates a gap in knowledge between the two disciplines.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 139 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | International Journal for Equity in Health |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 22 Sept 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank two anonymous reviewers for their thorough comments on an earlier version of this article.
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Research Groups and Themes
- Centre for Health, Law and Society
- Human Rights Implementation Centre
Keywords
- Human rights-based approach to health
- Rights-based approach to health
- Indicators
- Right to Health
- Scoping review
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