Policymakers have come to look to human rights law in framing national health policy and global health governance. Human rights law offers universal frameworks to advance justice in public health, codifying international standards to frame government obligations and facilitate accountability for realising the highest attainable standard of health. Addressing threats to individual dignity as ‘rights violations’ under international law, health-related human rights have evolved dramatically to offer a normative framework for public health.
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Meier, B. M., Evans, D. P., & Phelan, A. (2020). Rights-Based Approaches to Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to Infectious Disease (pp. 217–253). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39819-4_10
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