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Intersection 4: Building Health and Human Rights Into Communities

Health and Human Rights
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Health and Human Rights
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health ethics
human rights
community
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Political ethics
Bioethics
Ethics of political systems
Development ethics
Medical ethics
Health ethics
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Health Ethics
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"The importance of creating a “culture of human rights” at the community level is typically discussed in relation to warfare and other forms of official violence. Only rarely do health and other key social and economic rights come into view. Yet it seems clear that commitment by national politicians—without which health will not be prioritized over other pressing individual or social imperatives—depends on strong advocacy in communities. The right to health turns out to be a homeostatic function as well as an interdisciplinary one. Among populations most vulnerable to illness, the capacity for effective grassroots action rests on a constellation of approaches that build local capacity not only to deliver health care and other key services, but also, for example, to ensure household financial security, literacy, and access to the vocabulary of health and human rights, including familiarity with the basic documents, and modes of strategic deployment in the local and national political arenas."(pg 1)
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2011
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