| The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide: A Global Comparative Study Contributor(s): Flood, Colleen M. (Editor), Gross, Aeyal (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1316507548 ISBN-13: 9781316507544 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Health - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 362.1 |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6" W x 9" (1.49 lbs) 512 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through a comparative global study of countries from all continents representing a diversity of health, legal, political, and economic systems, this book explores the role of health rights to advance greater equality through access to health care. Does health care promote equality, or does it in fact advance the opposite result? Does inserting the idea of the right to health into health systems allow the reinsertion of public values into systems that are undergoing privatization? Or does it allow for private claims to be rearticulated as rights, in a way that actually reinforces inequality? This volume includes studies from countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands, China, and Nigeria, among many others, as well as authors with expertise regarding both the legal and health systems of their countries, making this a seminal study that allows readers to see the differing role of rights in various health systems. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gross, Aeyal: - Aeyal Gross is an Associate Professor in Tel-Aviv University's Faculty of Law. He is also a Visiting Reader at SOAS, University of London.Flood, Colleen M.: - Colleen M. Flood is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and is cross-appointed to the School of Public Policy and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. |