Supporting Lectures:
Refer to the following lecture:
- A Rights-Based Approach to Health
Why a Rights-Based Approach to Health?
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Levine, R. (2008). Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved. Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://digitalbookshelf.southuniversity.edu/books…
Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion.
Using your course textbooks and the Online Library, answer the following questions:
- What is meant by “the right to health”?
- What are the key features of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights concerning health?
- How might one carry out a “human rights approach” to health in global health efforts?
- How could one encourage countries and their development partners to pay greater attention to human rights issues in health?
