Political, Historical and Social Features of the Human Right to Health

A Brief Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature

Authors

  • Luis Henrique Almeida Castro a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:37:"Federal University of Grande Dourados";}
  • Cristiane Martins Viegas de Oliveira Local Development Graduate Program, Dom Bosco Catholic University
  • Diego Bezerra de Souza Local Development Graduate Program, Dom Bosco Catholic University
  • Geanlucas Mendes Monteiro Heath and Development in West Central Region Graduate Program, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul
  • Gildiney Penaves de Alencar Heath and Development in West Central Region Graduate Program, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul
  • Verônica Assalin Zorgetto-Pinheiro Heath and Development in West Central Region Graduate Program, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul
  • Raphael de Souza Cosmo
  • Thiago Teixeira Pereira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss12.2107

Keywords:

public health, access to health, human rights, politics

Abstract

The consecration of the right to physical and mental integrity at the time of the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1946 and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN) in 1948 established the human right of access to health. Conversely, the practical guarantee of this right has gone through many nuances since then, so that today the process of its implementation is closely related to the political, historical and social aspects of each country, demanding from the administrative power an interdisciplinary look for this issue. The problem that involves this conjuncture drives the researchers of this field to question themselves: what is the role of the State in this right? What is the performance of health professionals in fact? Is it possible to achieve the universality of human rights in an economically and culturally globalized world? In the light of the above, this narrative review aimed to collect in the literature the scenarios that permeate this reality providing tacit examples of how the human right to health is shaped according to the conjunctures of insertion of each community that tries to implement it

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Published

2019-12-01

How to Cite

Almeida Castro, L. H., Martins Viegas de Oliveira, C., Bezerra de Souza, D., Mendes Monteiro, G., Penaves de Alencar, G., Assalin Zorgetto-Pinheiro, V., de Souza Cosmo, R., & Teixeira Pereira, T. (2019). Political, Historical and Social Features of the Human Right to Health: A Brief Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 7(12), 554-561. https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss12.2107

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