Human Rights and Ethics in Public Health

Bioterrorism, public health, and human rights.

It is unnecessary and counterproductive to sacrifice basic human rights to respond to bioterrorism. Constructive public health legislation, which must be federal, cannot be carefully drafted under panic conditions. When it is, like the "model act," it will predictably rely on broad, arbitrary state authority exercised without public accountability. Public health should resist reverting to its n...

Human rights and the new public health.

The exciting and rapidly advancing dialogue between health and human rights is helping to define more clearly the challenges and perspectives of a new approach to public health. Public health has a complex intellectual and operational history, within which there is a long and respected tradition of understanding health as linked with various social realities, expressed or analyzed through occup...

Environmental Protection, Public Health and Human Rights

Is Human Rights Prepared? Risk, Rights and Public Health Emergencies

A new force seems to be at work in public health law and practice. Consider, for example, the proliferation of references to ‘preparedness’; specifically, ‘public health emergency preparedness’ and its more specialised variants such as ‘public health emergency legal preparedness’ and ‘international legal preparedness’. There is also increasing use of related phrases such as ‘global public healt...

A Synergistic Approach to Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Effective or a Source of Conflict?

Résumé Summary Les inquiétudes concernant les disparités croissantes en matière de santé et de richesses entre les membres de la société ont incité Stephanie Nixon et Lisa Forman, dans leur article de 2008 Exploring synergies between human rights and public health ethics: A whole greater than the sum of its parts, à proposer que les principes de droits de l’homme et de l’éthique de la santé pub...