Understanding Health as a Right is the fairest approach or attitude that governments and citizens can have in order to seek for justice for all the people. It´s consideration as an economic right allow people to claim for this right to governments and public authorities, and also leads us to reflect and demand about the states´obligation to provide with public and free health services (accesible, available, acceptable and with quality) in a capitalist world of privatization and decrease of the public budget. Although maybe this discussion is different than the questions suggested in the course, I wanted to raise some issues to reflect and comment: - The Human Rights Based approach to health considers that gender relations are central in its analysis. This implies that everyone is targeted when dealing with each gender´s health, not only women or men or a concrete risk group and that gender justice becomes one of the goals to be achieved. - A RBA to health goes beyond health issues; education, policies, governments, economy, culture, society must also be addressed. - A RBA to health involves an active interpretation of the concept of rights instead of a close list of them. Communities, nations, regions, institutions should reflect on how rights can be appropriated by the context without damaging the rights. - An approach based on rights and therefore justice and equity needs to commit itself to challenging gender socially-constructed roles. It goes beyond allopathic or conventional medicine and the purely service delivery itself.
Understanding Health as a Right is the fairest approach or attitude that governments and citizens can have in order to seek for justice for all the people. It´s consideration as an economic right allow people to claim for this right to governments and public authorities, and also leads us to reflect and demand about the states´obligation to provide with public and free health services (accesible, available, acceptable and with quality) in a capitalist world of privatization and decrease of the public budget.
ReplyDeleteAlthough maybe this discussion is different than the questions suggested in the course, I wanted to raise some issues to reflect and comment:
- The Human Rights Based approach to health considers that gender relations are central in its analysis. This implies that everyone is targeted when dealing with each gender´s health, not only women or men or a concrete risk group and that gender justice becomes one of the goals to be achieved.
- A RBA to health goes beyond health issues; education, policies, governments, economy, culture, society must also be addressed.
- A RBA to health involves an active interpretation of the concept of rights instead of a close list of them. Communities, nations, regions, institutions should reflect on how rights can be appropriated by the context without damaging the rights.
- An approach based on rights and therefore justice and equity needs to commit itself to challenging gender socially-constructed roles. It goes beyond allopathic or conventional medicine and the purely service delivery itself.