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Global Social Medicine for an Equitable and Just Future

February 19, 2023

EDITORIAL Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 1-8 PDF Carlos Piñones-Rivera, Ángel Martínez-Hernáez, Michelle E. Morse, Kavya Nambiar, Joel Ferrall, and Seth M. Holmes The papers in this special section work together to move toward a global social…

Disability Justice as Part of Structural Competency: Infra/structures of Deafness, Cochlear Implantation, and Re/habilitation in India

February 19, 2023

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 39-50 PDF Michele Friedner Abstract In 2014, the Indian state revised a key program providing aids and appliances to disabled people to also include cochlear implants for children living below the poverty line. The…

Growing Up Can be Hard to Do: Reimagining Structurally Supportive Pediatric-to-Adult Transitions of Care from a Rights-Based Perspective

February 19, 2023

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 51-65 PDF Michelle Munyikwa, Charles K. Hammond, Leanne Langmaid, and Leah Ratner Abstract Extended life expectancies and shifting dynamics in chronic disease have changed the landscape of public health interventions…

COMMENTARY The Right to Health: Looking beyond Health Facilities

February 19, 2023

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 133-135 PDF Agnes Binagwaho and Kedest Mathewos In 1946, the Constitution of the World Health Organization first articulated the right to health, stating that “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is…

COMMENTARY Global Voices for Global (Epistemic) Justice: Bringing to the Forefront Latin American Theoretical and Activist Contributions to the Pursuit of the Right to Health

February 19, 2023

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 137-147 PDF Paola M. Sesia The invitation by the Health and Human Rights Journal guest editors to provide a viewpoint essay for this special section comes just as we approach the first anniversary of Paul Farmer’s untimely…

BOOK REVIEW: Finding Hope in the Work on War and Health

January 30, 2023

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 227-229 PDF Samer Jabbour From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War by Barry Levy (Oxford University Press, 2022) Few subjects capture the public imagination like war; it is a…