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Joint Fact Sheet WHO/OHCHR/323; The Right to Health cartoon; Right to health on the Children's Rights Portal; General Comment No. 14. The right to the highest attainable standard of health CESCR, 2000; The right to health and the European Social Charter Secretariat of ESC, 2009; The Right to Health: Fact Sheet No. 31 WHO and UN HCHR
The right to health is an inclusive right extending not only to timely and appropriate health care, but also to the underlying determinants of health, such as access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, nutrition and housing, healthy occupational and environmental conditions. [51]
The right to a healthy environment is at the core of the international approach to human rights and climate change. [23] [24] The effects of climate change on human rights are presented by OHCHR in a fact sheet with the most frequently asked questions on the subject. [25]
The right to health or to protection of health is found in the constitutions of Belgium, Kyrgyzstan, Paraguay, Peru, Thailand, and Togo; constitutional obligations on the government to provide health services exist in Armenia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Finland, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Paraguay, Thailand, and Yemen.
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him/herself and of his/her family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary Social services, and the right to social secuirity in the event of unemployement, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in ...
Rajasthan’s groundbreaking new law compels all healthcare facilities to provide emergency care without receiving up-front payment but doctors fear it will ultimately leave them picking up the bill.
Two early efforts to define the human right to water came from law professor Stephen McCaffrey of the University of the Pacific in 1992 [30] and Dr. Peter Gleick in 1999. [31] McCaffrey stated that "Such a right could be envisaged as part and parcel of the right to food or sustenance, the right to health, or most fundamentally, the right to ...
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