Human rights in health systems frameworks: What is there, what is missing and why does it matter?

References

• Backman , G. , Hunt , P. , Khosla , R. , Jaramillo-Strouss , C. , Fikre , B.M. , Rumble , C. , Pevalin , D. , Páez , D.A. , Pineda , M.A. , Frisancho , A. , Tarco , D. , Motlagh , M. , Farcasanu , D. and Vladescu , C. 2008 . Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries . Lancet , 372 : 2047 – 2085 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Braveman , P. and Gruskin , S. 2003 . Poverty, equity, human rights and health . Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 81 ( 7 ) : 539 – 545 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brinkerhoff , D. , 2003 . Accountability and health systems, overview, framework and strategies [online]. Partners for Health Reformplus. Available from: http://www.who.int/management/partnerships/accountability/en/index2.html [Accessed 5 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights , 2000 . The right to the highest attainable standard of health: 11/08/2000. E/C.12/2000/4, CESCR General Comment 14 . Twenty-second session Geneva, 25 April–12 May 2000, Agenda item 3 .
   Google Scholar
• Csete , J. and Cohen , J. 2010 . Health benefits of legal services for criminalized populations: the case of people who use drugs, sex workers and sexual and gender minorities . Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , 38 ( 4 ) : 816 – 831 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frenk , J. , 2006 . Bridging the divide: comprehensive reform to improve health in Mexico. Lecture for WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Nairobi [online]. Available from: http://www.who.int/social_determinants/resources/frenk.pdf [Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• Frenk , J. , González-Pier , E. , Gómez-Dantés , O. , Lezana , M.A. and Knaul , F.M. 2006 . Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico . Lancet , 368 : 1524 – 1534 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Friedman , E.A. , 2009 . Building rights-based health systems: a focus on the health workforce . In : A. Clapham and M. Robninson Swiss human rights book vol. 3, Realizing the right to health . Zurich : Rüffer & Rub , 421 435 .
   Google Scholar
• Gorsky , M. 2008 . Community involvement in hospital governance in Britain: evidence from before the National Health Service . International Journal of Health Services , 38 ( 4 ) : 751 – 771 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gruskin , S. , Bogecho , D. and Ferguson , L. 2010 . Rights-based approaches to health policies and programs: articulations, ambiguities and assessment . Journal of Public Health Policy , 31 ( 2 ) : 129 – 145 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gruskin , S. and Ferguson , L. 2009 . Government regulation of sex and sexuality: in their own words . Reproductive Health Matters , 17 ( 34 ) : 108 – 118 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gruskin , S. , Mill , E.J. and Tarantola , D. 2007 . History, principles, and practice of health and human rights . Lancet , 370 : 449 – 455 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hunt , P. and Backman , G. 2008 . Health systems and the right to the highest attainable standard of health . Health and Human Rights , 10 ( 1 ) : 81 – 92 .
   Google Scholar
• Loewenson , R. , 2000 . Participation and accountability in health systems: the missing factor in equity? EQUINET [online]. Available from: http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/partic&account.pdf [Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• Mataria , A. , Khatib , R. , Donaldson , C. , Bossert , T. , Hunter , D.J. , Alsayed , F. and Moatti , J.P. 2009 . The health-care system: an assessment and reform agenda . Lancet , 373 : 1207 – 1217 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mulholland , E.K. , Smith , L. , Carneiro , I. , Becher , H. and Lehmann , D. 2008 . Equity and child-survival strategies . Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 86 : 399 – 407 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Newell , J.N. , Baral , S.C. , Pande , S.B. , Bam , D.S. and Malla , P. 2006 . Family-member DOTS and community DOTS for tuberculosis control in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial . Lancet , 367 : 903 – 909 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights , n.d . Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health [online]. Available from: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/health/right/ [Accessed 5 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• Ooms , G. , Van Damme , W. , Baker , B.K. , Zeitz , P. and Schrecker , T. 2008 . The ‘diagonal’ approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems? . Global Health , 4 : 6
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reich , M.R. and Takemi , K. 2009 . G8 and strengthening of health systems: follow-up to the Tokyo summit . Lancet , 373 : 508 – 515 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roberts , M.J. , Hsiao , W. , Berman , P. and Reich , M.R. 2004 . Getting health reform right: a guide to improving performance and equity , New York : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Schrecker , T. , Chapman , A.R. , Labonté , R. and De Vogli , R. 2010 . Advancing health equity in the global marketplace: how human rights can help . Social Science and Medicine , 71 ( 8 ) : 1520 – 1526 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sepulveda , J. , Bustreo , F. , Tapia , R. , Rivera , J. , Lozano , R. , Olaiz , G. , Partida , V. , Garcia , L. , and Valdespino , J.L. , 2006 368 . Improvement of child survival in Mexico: the diagonal approach . Lancet , (9551) 2017 2027 .
   Google Scholar
• Shakarishvili , G. , Atun , R. , Berman , P. , Hsiao , W. , Burgess , C. , and Lansang , M.A. , 2010 . Converging health systems frameworks: towards a concepts-to-actions roadmap for health systems strengthening in low and middle income countries . Global Health Governance [online]. Available from: http://ghgj.org/Shakarishvili_Converging%20Health%20Systems%20Frameworks.doc [Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• Toebes , B. , 2011 . Human rights, health sector abuse and corruption [online]. Human Rights and Human Welfare Working Paper No. 64. Available from: http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/workingpapers/2011/64-toebes-2011.pdf [Accessed 5 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• UN , 1966a . Article 12, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights . New York : United Nations .
   Google Scholar
• UN , 1966b . International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) . New York : United Nations .
   Google Scholar
• UN , 1997 . Renewing the United Nations: a programme for reform, report of the Secretary-General , UN GAOR, 51st Session, Agenda item 168, UN Doc. A/51/950 .
   Google Scholar
• UN , 2000 . The United Nations system and human rights: guidelines and information for the resident coordinator system [online]. Available from: http://www.unfpa.org/derechos/docs/res_coord_guidelines.pdf [Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• UN , 2011 . Treaty collection status of treaties [online]. Available from: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-3&chapter=4&lang=en [Accessed 29 October 2010] .
   Google Scholar
• UN , n.d .. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. What are human rights? [online]. Available from: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx [Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• WHO , 2000 . World Health Report 2000, Health systems: improving performance . Geneva : World Health Organization .
   Google Scholar
• WHO , 2006 . Opportunities for global health initiatives in the health system action agenda [online]. Working Paper 4 in Series Making Health Systems Work. Available from: http://www.who.int/management/Making%20HSWork%204.pdf [Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• WHO , 2007 . Everybody's business: strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes. WHO's Framework for Action [online] . Geneva : World Health Organization . Available from: www.who.int/healthsystems/strategy/everybodys_business.pdf [Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• WHO , 2008 . Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health . Final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health . Geneva : World Health Organization . Available from: www.who.int/social_determinants/final_report/en/index.html [Accessed 2 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• WHO , 2009 . WHO model lists of essential medicines [online]. Available from: http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines/en/ [Accessed 1 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• WHO , n.d . Health and human rights [online]. Available from: http://www.who.int/hhr/en/[Accessed 3 July 2011] .
   Google Scholar
• Yamin , A.E. 2010 . Our place in the world: conceptualizing obligations beyond borders in human rights-based approaches to health . Health and Human Rights , 12 ( 1 ) : 3 – 14 .
   Google Scholar