our commentary on forman et al paper explores their thesis that right to health language can frame global health policy responses. we examined human rights discourse in the outcome documents from three 2015 united nations (un) summits and found rights-related terms are used in all three. however, a deeper examination of the discourse finds the documents do not convey the obligations and entitle...

The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Agenda offers an opportunity to realise the right to health for all. The Agenda’s “interlinked and integrated” Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the prospect of focusing attention and mobilising resources not just for the provision of health services through universal health coverage (UHC), but also for addressing the underlying social,...

Five years ago, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on universal health coverage, followed a year later by a resolution from the United Nations General Assembly. In these resolutions, states promised to deliver affordable health care for everyone, referring to notions of equity and human rights law, particularly a human right to health. However, the explosion of migration coupled wit...

given the importance of patient's rights in healthcare, special attention has been given to the concept of patient's rights by the ministry of health and medical education in iran. iranian patient's rights charter has been compiled with a novel and comprehensive approach. this charter aims to elucidate rights of recipients of health services as well as observing ethical standards in medicine. t...