Cesr.org

Egypt Social Progress Indicators: Health — Center for Economic …

WEBHealth is among six topics covered, including urbanization; education; labor; food, water, and agricultural land; and economic policy. It uses a four-color scale, to …

Actived: 7 days ago

URL: https://cesr.org/egypt-social-progress-indicators-health/

The right to health vs. the market: Rejecting the false dichotomy

WEBThe Constitutional Court’s decision is timely given the debates around the right to health vs Big Pharma’s more tenuous “rights” to intellectual property. Now is the time …

Category:  Health Go Health

The Right to Health in the United States — Center for Economic …

WEBThe US health care system falls short of international standards for the right to health (2004). The Right to Health in the United States — Center for Economic and Social …

Category:  Health Go Health

ABOUT THIS RIGHT

WEBThe right to health includes access to adequate health care (medical, preventative, and mental), nutrition, sanitation, and to clean water and air. It also includes occupational …

Category:  Nutrition,  Medical Go Health

Invest in the Care Economy for a Just, Green, Feminist COVID-19

WEBAs the pandemic exposes the weaknesses of underfunded health systems around the world, the collective burdens that are frequently shouldered by women continue to …

Category:  Health Go Health

Death by a million cuts: what future for the right to health in Italy

WEBIn 2012, the Italian government passed a series of decree laws reducing total public health financing by €900 million in 2012, €1.8 billion in 2013 and a further €2 …

Category:  Health Go Health

THE RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE IN THE

WEBof putative “choices”, the U.S. health care system frequently delivers inadequate and poor quality health care, and entails wasteful expenditures on administrative and litigation …

Category:  Health Go Health

Egypt Social Progress Indicators Reveal How Austerity Feeds Gross

WEBEntrenched inequalities threaten health gains . Although Egypt is performing well on key international outcome indicators—such as child and maternal …

Category:  Health Go Health

19 RECOVERING COVID RIGHTS

WEBThe economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are spreading across the globe as quickly as the virus itself. The idea that the virus is a “great equalizer” between rich and …

Category:  Health Go Health

Health and Welfare in Iraq after the Gulf Crisis: An In-Depth

WEBIn September 1991, CESR directors organized a 87-person international mission (the International Study Team ) to conduct the most comprehensive studies in …

Category:  Health Go Health

Confronting COVID: How Civil Society is Responding Across …

WEBISER is advocating for strengthening the public health system. As COVID-19 has reinforced, this is often the first point of call for the poor. A 2019 assessment of …

Category:  Health Go Health

OPERA IN PRACTICE: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH OF

WEBPrevalence of occupational health risks due to the absence of clear and concrete national legislation, policy and guidelines undermines miners’ and ex-miners’ ability to enjoy their …

Category:  Health Go Health

TOPIC 12 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE IMF’S COVID RESPONSE

WEBThe International Monetary Fund is playing a major role in shaping economic and public health responses to the pandemic, including by extending grants and loans. So far, its …

Category:  Health Go Health

Kenya rights body issues call on reproductive health

WEBOn May 3 2012, the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) released the findings of its national public inquiry into sexual and reproductive health. The inquiry, …

Category:  Health Go Health

Adequate Standard of Living

WEBThe right to an adequate standard of living encompasses several morespecific rights, including the right to food, the right to health, theright to water, the …

Category:  Food Go Health

Human Rights and Poverty: Is poverty a violation of human …

WEBhealth, and political power --- who are most vulnerable to severe abuses of their human rights.”18 Answering the question of whether poverty itself is a violation of human rights …

Category:  Health Go Health

Inequality: can human rights make a difference

WEBYet extreme inequality has profound human rights implications. It results in stark disparities in access to health, education, housing and other services essential to …

Category:  Health Go Health

Human Rights FAQs — Center for Economic and Social Rights

WEBThe right to health, which includes guarantees such as access to healthcare, healthy environmental conditions, and protection against epidemic diseases. The right to …

Category:  Health Go Health

HEALTH AND WELFARE IN IRAQ AFTER THE GULF CRISIS

WEBThe practice of public health specialists is to state infant and child mortality as a proportion of live births. Before the Gulf Crisis, the mortality rate for children under five years of age …

Category:  Health Go Health

Gaza's humanitarian crisis: what comes next

WEBHealth: with high civilian injuries, overcrowded hospitals are struggling to function without regular access to adequate amounts of fuel, medicines and medical …

Category:  Medical,  Medicine Go Health

Labor rights and workplace equality in Egypt: new measure finds

WEBIn September, The Egypt Social Progress Indicators (ESPI), a project co-developed by CESR with partners in Egypt, released its list of scored indicators for labor rights, …

Category:  Health Go Health