The right to health means that governments must generate conditions in which everyone can be as healthy as possible. Those conditions range from ensuring availability of health services, healthy working conditions and safe, adequate housing and nutritious food.
The right to health is not confined to the right to be healthy. The right to health is enshrined in numerous international and regional human rights and the constitutions of countries around the world. Examples of United Nations treaties on human rights:
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979 Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 Examples of regional human rights treaties: pearly penile papules wikipedia
European Social Charter, 1961 African Charter on Human and Peoples, 1981 Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador), 1988 Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) says that among the measures to be taken to ensure the full realization of the right to health include those necessary for:
reduction of the stillbirth and infant mortality and for the healthy development of children; improving occupational health and the environment; prevention and treatment of epidemic, endemic, occupational and otherwise, and diseases; creating conditions that ensure universal access to alegent health mercy hospital care.
To clarify and operationalize the above provisions, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural United Nations, which monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted in 2000 a General Comment on the right to health.
The General Comment that the right to health extends not only health care but also timely and appropriate to the underlying determinants of health, including access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, proper nutrition, adequate housing, healthy occupational conditions and environment, and access to education and information on health issues, including sexual and reproductive health.
The right to health is not confined to the right to be healthy. The right to health is enshrined in numerous international and regional human rights and the constitutions of countries around the world. Examples of United Nations treaties on human rights:
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979 Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 Examples of regional human rights treaties: pearly penile papules wikipedia
European Social Charter, 1961 African Charter on Human and Peoples, 1981 Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador), 1988 Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) says that among the measures to be taken to ensure the full realization of the right to health include those necessary for:
reduction of the stillbirth and infant mortality and for the healthy development of children; improving occupational health and the environment; prevention and treatment of epidemic, endemic, occupational and otherwise, and diseases; creating conditions that ensure universal access to alegent health mercy hospital care.
To clarify and operationalize the above provisions, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural United Nations, which monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted in 2000 a General Comment on the right to health.
The General Comment that the right to health extends not only health care but also timely and appropriate to the underlying determinants of health, including access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, proper nutrition, adequate housing, healthy occupational conditions and environment, and access to education and information on health issues, including sexual and reproductive health.
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