International Health Law

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241580410

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International Health Regulations (2005) by World Health Organization Pdf

In response to the call of the 48th World Health Assembly for a substantial revision of the International Health Regulations, this new edition of the Regulations will enter into force on June 15, 2007. The purpose and scope of the Regulations are "to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade." The Regulations also cover certificates applicable to international travel and transport, and requirements for international ports, airports and ground crossings.

Author : Gian Luca Burci,Brigit Toebes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781785366543

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Research Handbook on Global Health Law by Gian Luca Burci,Brigit Toebes Pdf

The effect of Globalization on health has attracted the attention of scholars and policy makers across multiple disciplines. A key concern is the regulation of international health protection, and in particular the use of international health instruments and the complex interaction between international law and health considerations. For the first time, a group of law and policy scholars have analysed these issues, drawing on knowledge from their respective fields. The resulting book provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary issues in global health law and governance.

Author : Lawrence O. Gostin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674369870

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Global Health Law by Lawrence O. Gostin Pdf

Despite global progress, staggering health inequalities between rich and poor raise basic questions of social justice. Defining the field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective governance and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right.

Author : Michel Bélanger
Publisher : Archives contemporaines
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9782813000729

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Global Health Law by Michel Bélanger Pdf

Author : André den Exter
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789046602003

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International Health Law by André den Exter Pdf

In the twenty-first century, complex health care problems have remained unsolved. Conflicts between public interests and individual rights, evolving public health crises in low income countries, the challenge of regulating health professionals, and the effects of globalisation on health (care systems) dominate the contemporary debates in this field. In a way, these problems expose the (regulatory) weaknesses of health systems responding to these questions. Facing these problems, health lawyers and policy makers should - more than in the past - focus on underlying normative values in health care. Core values include solidarity and justice in health care access. International Health Law explores the underlying normative values of health systems from a global and local perspective. Apart from examining country experiences, the authors provide an interesting and valuable contribution to the (inter)national legal and health policy debate on guaranteeing equal access to health care facilities, resisting a market or consumer-driven movement. By explaining health systems in terms of access, solidarity and justice, International Health Law could contribute strengthening health systems, including equal access. Book jacket.

Author : Lawrence O. Gostin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674369887

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Global Health Law by Lawrence O. Gostin Pdf

The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right. Gostin shows how critical it is for institutions and international agreements to focus not only on illness but also on the essential conditions that enable people to stay healthy throughout their lifespan: nutrition, clean water, mosquito control, and tobacco reduction. Policies that shape agriculture, trade, and the environment have long-term impacts on health, and Gostin proposes major reforms of global health institutions and governments to ensure better coordination, more transparency, and accountability. He illustrates the power of global health law with case studies on AIDS, influenza, tobacco, and health worker migration. Today's pressing health needs worldwide are a problem not only for the medical profession but also for all concerned citizens. Designed with the beginning student, advanced researcher, and informed public in mind, Global Health Law will be a foundational resource for teaching, advocacy, and public discourse in global health.

Author : Trudo Lemmens,Jennifer Bergman,Kanksha Mahadevia Ghimire,Maryam Shahid
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789403529615

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Medical Law in Canada by Trudo Lemmens,Jennifer Bergman,Kanksha Mahadevia Ghimire,Maryam Shahid Pdf

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient volume provides comprehensive analysis of the law affecting the physician-patient relationship in Canada. Cutting across the traditional compartments with which lawyers are familiar, medical law is concerned with issues arising from this relationship, and not with the many wider juridical relations involved in the broader field of health care law. After a general introduction, the book systematically describes law related to the medical profession, proceeding from training, licensing, and other aspects of access to the profession, through disciplinary and professional liability and medical ethics considerations and quality assurance, to such aspects of the physician-patient relationship as rights and duties of physicians and patients, consent, privacy, and access to medical records. Also covered are specific issues such as organ transplants, human medical research, abortion, and euthanasia, as well as matters dealing with the physician in relation to other health care providers, health care insurance, and the health care system. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to professional organizations of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and relevant government agencies. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Canada will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its comparative value as a contribution to the study of medical law in the international context.

Author : John Tobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199603299

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The Right to Health in International Law by John Tobin Pdf

Lack of access to health care is one of the fundamental problems facing people in both developing and developed countries. This book examines the history, foundation, and meaning of the right to health in international law. It concludes that it is possible to offer an understanding of this right that is practical and capable of being implemented.

Author : Phoebe Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135916770

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Health Technologies and International Intellectual Property Law by Phoebe Li Pdf

The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international public health to provide prompt and specific guidance during a large-scale emergency. This book develops a means for States to take advantage of the flexibilities of compulsory licensing in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which promotes access to medicines in a public health emergency. It presents the precautionary approach (PA) and the structure of risk analysis as a means to build a workable reading of TRIPS and to help States embody the flexibilities of intellectual property (IP). The work investigates the complementary roles of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in order to promote the harmonisation of the precautionary approach in relation to the patenting of crucial pharmaceutical products. By bringing together international trade law and intellectual property law Phoebe Li demonstrates how through the use of risk analysis and the precautionary approach, States can still comply with their legal obligations in international law, while exercising their sovereignty right in issuing a compulsory licence of a drug patent in an uncertain public health emergency. This book will be of great interest to students and academics of medical and healthcare law, intellectual property law, international trade law, and human rights law.

Author : Lawrence O. Gostin,University Professor Founding Linda D & Timothy J Oneill Professor of Global Health Law Lawrence O Gostin,Associate Professor of Global Health Policy Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Benjamin Mason Meier,Benjamin Mason Meier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197528297

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Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights by Lawrence O. Gostin,University Professor Founding Linda D & Timothy J Oneill Professor of Global Health Law Lawrence O Gostin,Associate Professor of Global Health Policy Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Benjamin Mason Meier,Benjamin Mason Meier Pdf

Human rights are essential to global health, yet rising threats in an increasingly divided world are challenging the progressive evolution of health-related human rights. It is necessary to empower a new generation of scholars, advocates, and practitioners to sustain the global commitment to universal rights in public health. Looking to the next generation to face the struggles ahead, this book provides a detailed understanding of the evolving relationship between global health and human rights, laying a human rights foundation for the advancement of transformative health policies, programs, and practices. International human rights law has been repeatedly shown to advance health and wellbeing - empowering communities and fostering accountability for realizing the highest attainable standard of health. This book provides a compelling examination of international human rights as essential for advancing public health. It demonstrates how human rights strengthens human autonomy and dignity, while placing clear responsibilities on government to safeguard the public's health and safety. Bringing together leading academics in the field of health and human rights, this volume: (1) explains the norms and principles that define the field, (2) examines the methods and tools for implementing human rights to promote health, (3) applies essential human rights to leading public health threats, and (4) analyzes rising human rights challenges in a rapidly globalizing world. This foundational text shows why interdisciplinary scholarship and action are essential for health-related human rights, placing human rights at the center of public health and securing a future of global health with justice.

Author : Sharifah Sekalala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107049529

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Soft Law and Global Health Problems by Sharifah Sekalala Pdf

A legal examination of global health governance issues relating to access to essential medicines for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Author : Benjamin Mason Meier,Lawrence O. Gostin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190672706

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Human Rights in Global Health by Benjamin Mason Meier,Lawrence O. Gostin Pdf

Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through global health governance. This volume examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations. To analyze the structural determinants of rights-based governance, the organizations in this volume include those international bureaucracies that implement human rights in ways that influence public health in a globalizing world. This volume brings together leading health and human rights scholars and practitioners from academia, non-governmental organizations, and the United Nations system. They explore the foundations of human rights as a normative framework for global health governance, the mandate of the World Health Organization to pursue a human rights-based approach to health, the role of inter-governmental organizations across a range of health-related human rights, the influence of rights-based economic governance on public health, and the focus on global health among institutions of human rights governance. Contributing chapters each map the distinct human rights efforts within a specific institution of global governance for health. Through the comparative institutional analysis in this volume, the contributing authors examine institutional dynamics to operationalize human rights in organizational policies, programs, and practices and assess institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit human rights mainstreaming for global health advancement.

Author : Stefania Negri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781000762044

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Environmental Health in International and EU Law by Stefania Negri Pdf

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law. Consistent with the One Health approach and moving from the relevant international and EU legal frameworks, the book addresses some of the most important issues of environmental health including the traditional, such as pollution of air, water and soil and related food safety issues, as well as new and emerging challenges, like those linked to climate change, antimicrobial resistance and electromagnetic fields. Applying an intersectoral and interdisciplinary approach, it also investigates other branches of international and EU law including human rights law, investment law, trade law, energy law and disaster law. The work also discusses ethics and intergenerational equity. Ultimately, the book assesses the degree of effectiveness of the international and EU normative framework, and the extent to which the relevant legal instruments contribute to the protection of public health from major environmental hazards. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics and policy makers working in the areas of Environmental Health law, Global Health law, International law and EU law.

Author : Brigit Toebes,Rhonda Ferguson,Milan M. Markovic,Obiajulu Nnamuchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462650145

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The Right to Health by Brigit Toebes,Rhonda Ferguson,Milan M. Markovic,Obiajulu Nnamuchi Pdf

This interdisciplinary study engages with the fields of human rights law, health law, and public health. It analyses how the internationally guaranteed human ‘right to health’ is realized by States at a national level. It brings together scholars from more than ten different countries, with each of them analyzing the right to health in their country or region. They all focus on a particular theme that is important in their country, such as health inequalities, the Millennium Development Goals, or the privatization of healthcare. This book is relevant for scholars, practitioners and policy makers in the field of human rights law, health law, public health and the intersection between these three fields.

Author : Valentina Vadi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415507493

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Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration by Valentina Vadi Pdf

As a wide variety of state regulations allegedly aimed at protecting public health may interfere with foreign investments, a tension exists between the public health policies of the host state and investment treaty provisions. Under most investment treaties, States have waived their sovereign immunity, and have agreed to give arbitrators a comprehensive jurisdiction over what are essentially regulatory disputes. Some scholars and practitioners have expressed concern regarding the magnitude of decision-making power allocated to investment treaty tribunals. This book contributes to the current understanding of international investment law and arbitration, addressing the fundamental question of whether public health has and/or should have any relevance in contemporary international investment law and policy.