Volume 20, Issue 2, December 2018

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Issue 20.2 features a special section: Special Section on Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health and a General Papers section

Special Section on Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health

in collaboration with the Lupina Foundation and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto* 

EDITORIAL  Deepening the Relationship between Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health: A Focus on Indivisibility and Power
Kristi Heather Kenyon, Lisa Forman, and Claire E. Brolan
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Using Health Committees to Promote Community Participation as a Social Determinant of the Right to Health: Lessons from Uganda and South Africa
Moses Mulumba, Leslie London, Juliana Nantaba, and Charles Ngwena
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Social Medicine in Practice: Realizing the American Indian and Alaska Native Right to Health
Lucas Trout, Corina Kramer, and Lois Fischer
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Human Rights and Fracking in England: The Role of the Oregon Permanent People’s Tribunal
Miriam R. Aczel and Karen E. Makuch
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Challenging Neoliberalism: ILO, Human Rights, and Public Health Frameworks on Decent Work
Gillian MacNaughton and Diane Frey
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PERSPECTIVE  Tax and the Right to Health   
Bernadette Ann-Marie O’Hare  
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A Meta-Narrative Literature Synthesis and Framework to Guide Future Evaluation of Legal Empowerment Interventions
Katherine Footer, Michael Windle, Laura Ferguson, Jordan Hatcher, Carrie Lyons, Emma Gorin, Anne L. Stangl, Steven Golub, Sofia Gruskin, and Stefan Baral
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General Papers

PERSPECTIVE  Human Rights in Public Health: Deepening Engagement at a Critical Time
Benjamin Mason Meier, Dabney P. Evans, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Jessica M. Keralis, and Gabriel Armas-Cardona
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Engaging Human Rights Norms to Realize Universal Health Care in Massachusetts, USA
Gillian MacNaughton, Mariah McGill, April Jakubec, and Andjela Kaur
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The Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar: When the Stateless Seek Refuge
Abhishek Bhatia, Ayesha Mahmud, Arlan Fuller, Rebecca Shin, Azad Rahman, Tanvir Shatil, Mahmuda Sultana, K. A. M Morshed, Jennifer Leaning, and Satchit Balsari
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Domestic and Family Violence in Post-Conflict Communities: International Human Rights Law and the State’s Obligation to Protect Women and Children
Samantha Bradley
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Human Subject Research: International and Regional Human Rights Standards
Andrés Constantin
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Strategic Litigation to Advance Public Health
Tamar Ezer and Priti Patel
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PERSPECTIVE  Contribution of the Health Ombud to Accountability: The Life Esidimeni Tragedy in South Africa
Ebenezer Durojaye and Daphine Kabagambe Agaba
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Does Information and Communication Technology Add Value to Citizen-Led Accountability Initiatives in Health? Experiences from India and Guatemala
Marta Schaaf, Shruti Chhabra, Walter Flores, Francesa Feruglio, Jashodhara Dasgupta, and Ana Lorena Ruano
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Social Solidarity, Human Rights, and Collective Action: Considerations in the Implementation of the National Health Insurance in South Africa
Renate Douwes, Maria Stuttaford, and Leslie London
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Gendered Power Relations and Informed Consent: The I.V. v. Bolivia Case
Martín Hevia and Andrés Constantin
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Intersex Variations, Human Rights, and the International Classification of Diseases
Morgan Carpenter
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Transsexuals’ Right to Health? A Cuban Case Study
Emily J. Kirk and Robert Huish
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Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Human Rights-Based Approaches of Legislation, Education, and Community Empowerment
Beth D. Williams-Breault
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Child Labor in Global Tobacco Production: A Human Rights Approach to an Enduring Dilemma
Athena K. Ramos
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR  Malnutrition, Poverty, and Climate Change Are Also Human Rights Issues in Child Labor
Adele Jones
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* Special thanks to artist Bill Ayers for the Social Determinants of Health poster used in association with the special section