Author : Solomon dessalegn dibaba
Keyword : Health, human rights law, highest attainable standard, indivisibility and progressive realization.
Subject : Law
Article Type : Review article
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Abstract : This Article discusses the contents, essential elements of human rights to heath, right to health and other fundamental principles of human rights in international, regional and national legal instruments. The human right to health discussed in this Article is only from the legal point of view. Almost all international human rights treaties recognize the right to “highest attainable standard†of health. The human right to health perceived as significant aspect of economic development, environmental issues, and the rights of children-all currently important international concern. The human right to health importantly focuses the attachment of health status to the issue of dignity, non-discrimination, justice and participation. Almost all states of the world at least signed one international human right treaty that recognize health as human right but the problem is there is no flexible standard that consider the developing nations their level of wealth and development for progressive realization of this right.
Article by : Solomon Dessalegn Dibaba
Article add date : 2022-01-25
How to cite : Solomon dessalegn dibaba. (2022-January-25). The human right to health: in international, regional and national legal instruments.. retrieved from https://www.openacessjournal.com/abstract/987