How is health protected by the human rights legal framework?
Human rights recognize that the realization of the highest attainable standard of health depends upon a wide range of distinct, yet interrelated, human rights. The ways in which human rights can have an impact upon health fall into three main areas:
●The violation or neglect of human rights, such as torture, slavery, violence against women and children and exposure to other harmful practices, can lead to ill-health.
●The fulfillment of human rights can reduce a person's vulnerability to ill-health.
● Development policies can bring about the fulfillment of some human rights but may, in some circumstances, violate others.
The right to the highest attainable standard of health, often referred to as the right to health, is enshrined consistently within international law. It encompasses a range of rights from having access to care when ill, to protection against disease or the ill effects of environmental living conditions. Under the right to health, states are obliged to ensure that public health services, as well as medicines and health care staff, are made available to all, are accessible to all, regardless of geographical location or economic status, are acceptable to all cultures, genders and ages and respect the privacy of all individuals.
Furthermore, the quality of the skills of the health personnel, the medicines available and the equipment used should be of a consistent standard for all communities and all individuals within those communities. In addition to the provision of health care, it is generally understood that the fulfillment of the right to health depends upon a number of related human rights that can have a direct impact upon health. These include the right to safe water and sanitation, the right to food and nutrition, the right to shelter, the right to occupational and environmental conditions that do not damage health, the right to health-related education and information, the right to non-discrimination, the right to participate, the right to enjoy the fruits of scientific progress and the right to social security or protection in times of severe hardship.
●The violation or neglect of human rights, such as torture, slavery, violence against women and children and exposure to other harmful practices, can lead to ill-health.
●The fulfillment of human rights can reduce a person's vulnerability to ill-health.
● Development policies can bring about the fulfillment of some human rights but may, in some circumstances, violate others.
The right to the highest attainable standard of health, often referred to as the right to health, is enshrined consistently within international law. It encompasses a range of rights from having access to care when ill, to protection against disease or the ill effects of environmental living conditions. Under the right to health, states are obliged to ensure that public health services, as well as medicines and health care staff, are made available to all, are accessible to all, regardless of geographical location or economic status, are acceptable to all cultures, genders and ages and respect the privacy of all individuals.
Furthermore, the quality of the skills of the health personnel, the medicines available and the equipment used should be of a consistent standard for all communities and all individuals within those communities. In addition to the provision of health care, it is generally understood that the fulfillment of the right to health depends upon a number of related human rights that can have a direct impact upon health. These include the right to safe water and sanitation, the right to food and nutrition, the right to shelter, the right to occupational and environmental conditions that do not damage health, the right to health-related education and information, the right to non-discrimination, the right to participate, the right to enjoy the fruits of scientific progress and the right to social security or protection in times of severe hardship.
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