Healthcare as a Universal Human Right: Sustainability in Global Health

Healthcare as a Universal Human Right: Sustainability in Global Health

Medicine

Health systems agencies

This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens’ fundamental right to basic healthcare. Ground in the philosophical position that healthcare is an essential element to human dignity, the book moves beyond this theoretical principle to offer policy makers a basis for health policies based on public accountability and social responsiveness. Also emphasizing the importance of global co-operation, particularly in the area of health promotion and communication, it addresses, too, the issue of financial sustainability, suggesting robust mechanisms of economic and social regulation. New opportunities created by e-health, evidence-based data and artificial intelligence are all highlighted and discussed, as is the issue of patient rights. Students and researchers across bioethics, public health and medical sociology will find this book fascinating reading, as will policy makers in the field.

Nunes, Rui

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78065

Taylor & Francis

2021

Sukma Kartikasari

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Watts N, Amann M, Arnell N et al. 2018. The 2018 report of the lancet countdown on health and climate change: Shaping the health of nations for centuries to come. The Lancet 392: 2479–2514.

Pdf

English

Textbooks

DOI: 10.4324/9781003241065

ISBN: 9781000530346, 9781032193250, 9781003241065, 9781032138800