Litigating Health Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Litigating Health Rights write by Alicia Ely Yamin. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Litigating Health Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of health rights cases focusing on issues such as access to health services and essential medications. This volume examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable for these obligations. It includes case studies from Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, as well as chapters that address cross-cutting themes. The authors analyze what types of services and interventions have been the subject of successful litigation and what remedies have been ordered by courts. Different chapters address the systemic impact of health litigation efforts, taking into account who benefits both directly and indirectly—and what the overall impacts on health equity are.
Litigating the Right to Health in Africa
Litigating the Right to Health in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Litigating the Right to Health in Africa write by Ebenezer Durojaye. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Litigating the Right to Health in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With contributions from activists and scholars across Africa, this study focusses on understanding the legal framework in Africa for the recognition of the right to health, the challenges people encounter in such litigation and prospects for litigating future health rights cases. Diverse case studies also demonstrate that even in jurisdictions where the right to health has not been explicitly guaranteed, attempts have been made to litigate on this right. The book also takes a comparative approach to litigating the right to health before regional human rights bodies.
Litigating the Right to Health in Africa
Litigating the Right to Health in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Litigating the Right to Health in Africa write by Ebenezer Durojaye. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Litigating the Right to Health in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advance the right to health. Litigation can provide a powerful tool not only to hold governments accountable for failure to realise the right to health, but also to empower the people to seek redress for the violation of this essential right. With contributions from activists and scholars across Africa, the collection includes a diverse range of case studies throughout the region, demonstrating that even in jurisdictions where the right to health has not been explicitly guaranteed, attempts have been made to litigate on this right. The collection focusses on understanding the legal framework for the recognition of the right to health, the challenges people encounter in litigating health rights issues and prospects of litigating future health rights cases in Africa. The book also takes a comparative approach to litigating the right to health before regional human rights bodies. This book will be valuable reading to scholars, researchers, policymakers, activists and students interested in the right to health.
Litigating the Right to Health
Litigating the Right to Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Litigating the Right to Health write by Colleen M. Flood. This book was released on 2017. Litigating the Right to Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This article presents research demonstrating that the right to health plays different roles in different types of health systems. In high-income countries with tax-funded health systems, we usually encounter a lack of an enforceable right to heath. In contrast, rights play a more significant role in social health insurance/managed competition systems (which are present in a mixture of high-income and middle-income countries). There is concern, for example in Colombia, that a high volume of rights litigation can challenge the very sustainability of a public health care system and distort resources away from those most in need. Finally, in middle-income countries with big gaps between a poor public health system and a rich private one, we are more likely to find an express constitutional right to health care (or one is inferred from, for example, the right to life). In some of these countries, constitutional rights were included as part of the transition to democracy and an attempt to address huge inequities within society. Here the scale of health inequities suggests that courts need to be bolder in their interpretation of health care rights. We conclude that in adjudicating health rights, courts should scrutinize decision-making through the lens of health equity and equality to better achieve the inherent values of health human rights.
Entrepreneurial Litigation
Entrepreneurial Litigation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entrepreneurial Litigation write by John C. Coffee. This book was released on 2015-06-08. Entrepreneurial Litigation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In class actions, attorneys effectively hire clients rather than act as their agent. Lawyer-financed, lawyer-controlled, and lawyer-settled, this entrepreneurial litigation invites lawyers to act in their own interest. John Coffee’s goal is to save class action, not discard it, and to make private enforcement of law more democratically accountable.
