Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health?
Bok Engelsk
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| Utgitt | Harvard University Press
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (338 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Litigating health rights : framing the analysis / Siri Gloppen -- Argentina : courts and the right to health : achieving fairness despite "routinization" in individual coverage cases / Paola Bergallo -- Brazil : health inequalities, rights, and courts : the social impact of the "judicialization of health" / Octavio L. Motta Ferraz -- Colombia : judicial protection of the right to health : an elusive promise / Alicia Ely Yamin, Oscar Parra-Vera, and Camila Gianella -- Costa Rica : health rights litigation : causes and consequences / Bruce M. Wilson -- India : citizens, courts, and the right to health : between promise and progress / Sharanjeet Parmar and Namita Wahi -- South Africa : health rights litigation : cautious constitutionalism / Carole Cooper -- Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights : some initial arguments / Roberto Gargarella -- Litigating the right to health : are transnational actors backseat driving / Mindy Jane Roseman and Siri Gloppen -- Assessing the impact of health rights litigation : a comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, and South Africa / Ottar Mstad, Lise Rakner, and Octavio L. Motta Ferraz -- Litigating for medicines : how can we assess impact on health outcomes / Ole Frithjof Norheim and Siri Gloppen -- Power, suffering, and courts : reflections on promoting health rights through judicialization / Alicia Ely Yamin.. - This book examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable for these obligations. It asks who benefits both directly and indirectly-and what the overall impacts on health equity are. Included are case studies from Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
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| Emner | |
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| ISBN | 0-9861062-0-8. - 0-9861062-6-7
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