Is Environmental Health a Basic Human Right?

Is Environmental Health a Basic Human Right?

Background: There is paucity of measures to conduct epidemiological studies related to disasters in Sri Lanka. This study validates a Sinhalese translation of the Impact of Event Scale8 items version (IES-8) for use in Sri Lanka. Methods: This cross-sectional validation study was conducted in the densely populated rural area of Tangalle in the Southern province of Sri Lanka. The English version...

Is health care a human right?

Is there a human right to private health care?

In recent years we have noticed an increase in the turn to rights analysis in litigation relating to access to health care. Examining litigation, we can notice a contradiction between on the one hand the ability of the right to health to reinforce privatization and commodification of health care, by rearticulating claims to private health care in terms of human rights, and on the other hand, it...

Why and how is health a human right?

Rural health: a human right.