Archive: Tue Dec 2013

Published November 5, 2013  Dear Editor, We are writing to support the claim made by Mpinga et al. in their article Traditional/alternative medicines and the right to health: Key elements for a convention on global health. In their discussion…

Jonathan Cohen and Tamar Ezer Health and Human Rights 15/2 Published December 2013 Abstract The concept of “human rights in patient care” refers to the application of human rights principles to the context of patient care. It provides a…

Jamie Lim, Stephen Petersen, Dan Schwarz, Ryan Schwarz, Duncan Maru Health and Human Rights 15/2 Published December 2013 Abstract Household indoor air pollution from open-fire cookstoves remains a public health and environmental hazard which…

Carmel Williams Health and Human Rights 15/2 Published December 2013 In the current planning phase for the post-2015 development agenda, there is guarded optimism that human rights will occupy a more central role than they did in the Millennium…

Health and Human Rights 2013, 15/2 Reviews Public Health and Social Justice Martin Donohoe Jossey-Bass (October 2012) ISBN: 111808814X 656 pages $60.00 Reviewed by Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, and Peter J. Whitehouse, MD,…

Tamar Ezer and Judy Overall Health and Human Rights 15/2 Published December 2013 Abstract Background: In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, for society’s most marginalized people, health systems are too often places of violations of basic…