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The Right to Health: Assessing How Far the Discourse Has Evolved Internationally and Within the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin*
Affiliation:
Program on the Health Rights of Women and Children, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, on Health Policy and Management, Harvard University
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New Thinking on Social and Economic Rights: Honoring Virginia Leary
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 104 , 2010 , pp. 14 - 17
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 Leary, Virginia A., The Right to Health in International Human Rights Law, 1 Health & Hum. Rts. 25, 52 (1994)Google Scholar.

2 Leary, Virginia, Defining the Right to Health Care, in Health Care Reform: A Human Rights Approach 87 (Chapman, Audrey R. ed., 1994)Google Scholar.

3 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, At the Brink: Trends in America’s Uninsured—A State-by-State Analysis (Mar. 2009), available at https://folio.iupui.edu/handle/10244/786.

4 Physicians for a National Health Program, Pro-Single-Payer Doctors: Health Bill Leaves 23 Million Uninsured—A False Promise of Reform (Mar. 22, 2010), at http://www.pnhp.org/news/2010/march/pro-single-payer-doctors-health-bill-leaves-23-million-uninsured.

5 Keil, Julian E., Sutherland, Susan E., Knapp, Rebecca G., & Tyroler, Hennán A., Does Equal Socioeconomic Status in Black and White Men Mean Equal Risk of Mortality?, 82 Am. J. Pub. Health 1133 (1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 See, e.g., Md. Dep’t Health & Mental Hygiene, Plan for Reducing Infant Mortality in Maryland (2008), at http://fha.maryland.gov/pdf/mch/GDU_IM_Plan.pdf.

7 Amnesty International, Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA (2010), available at http://www.amnestyusa.org/dignity/pdf/DeadlyDelivery.pdf.

8 Navarro, Vicente, What weMean by Social Determinants of Health, 39 Int’l J. Health Services 423 (2009)CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed, available at http://factorespsicosociales.com/biblioteca/info/Vicente_Navarro.pdf.

9 Leary, supra note 2, at 88.

10 Id. at 87.

11 Id. at 92.

12 Id. at 101.

13 Id.