The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, the World Health Organization, and the Lawyers Collective have come together to develop a searchable Global Health and Human Rights Database that maps the intersection of health and human rights in judgments, international and regional instruments, and national constitutions. Where states long remained unaccounta...

Surveys conducted in the context of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme are an important source of data on health of families in developing countries. Both at the national and international level, DHS surveys provide much-needed data on fertility and family planning, on mortality and nutrition, and on health services utilization. The use of uniform survey instruments allows detai...

The cross-cultural applicability research study (CAR) for ICIDH-2 revision and instrument development was conducted as an early part of a multi-year joint project between the World Health Organization (WHO), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and participating centres around the world. The overall aim of the project was to develop disability assessment instruments, based on a revision ...

International human rights law affirms that everyone has a right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States that are parties to human rights treaties are obliged under international law to observe these rights. Australia has ratified all international human rights law instruments in which the right to health is enshrined, and so is obliged to ensur...

At the beginning of the 21st century there is widespread recognition that national and international health are inseparable. Societies are increasingly turning to innovative and diverse mechanisms of international health cooperation to gain control over the forces that are globalizing public health and related risk factors such as those outlined in this year’s World Health Report (1). Consequen...

With the approval of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health by the World Health Assembly in May 2001, the concurrent use of both health-status measures and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health is expected. It is therefore important to understand the relationship between these two concepts. The objective of this paper is to provid...

producing genetically­modified­foods plays one of the key roles in addressing the increasing needs for foods. the development and increasing use of gmfoods, despite its benefits and advantages,causes its­own problems and challenges, as well .the exclusive characteristic of these types of products and the human and environment-related effects have made discussion over this issue twice assignific...