Alicia Ely Yamin1. 1. Guest Editor, Lecturer on Global Health and Policy Director at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
Abstract
One of the most significant transformations to occur in the landscape of struggles for health justice since this journal was originally launched relates to the increasing judicialization of health-related rights, and economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights) more broadly. Indeed, the articles in this issue go far toward debunking outdated conceptions about health rights as merely "programmatic rights," which are not justiciable. Over the last 20 years, and increasingly in the last decade, we have seen that health and related rights are in fact being enforced by courts around the world, from South America to South Asia, Eastern Europe to East Africa. And increasingly, even in low-income countries, important demands for health-related entitlements are being framed in terms of legally enforceable claims.
One of the most significant transformations to occur in the landscape of struggles for health justice since this journal was originally launched relates to the increasing judicialization of health-related rights, and economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights) more broadly. Indeed, the articles in this issue go far toward debunking outdated conceptions about health rights as merely "programmatic rights," which are not justiciable. Over the last 20 years, and increasingly in the last decade, we have seen that health and related rights are in fact being enforced by courts around the world, from South America to South Asia, Eastern Europe to East Africa. And increasingly, even in low-income countries, important demands for health-related entitlements are being framed in terms of legally enforceable claims.
Authors: Lawrence O Gostin; John T Monahan; Jenny Kaldor; Mary DeBartolo; Eric A Friedman; Katie Gottschalk; Susan C Kim; Ala Alwan; Agnes Binagwaho; Gian Luca Burci; Luisa Cabal; Katherine DeLand; Timothy Grant Evans; Eric Goosby; Sara Hossain; Howard Koh; Gorik Ooms; Mirta Roses Periago; Rodrigo Uprimny; Alicia Ely Yamin Journal: Lancet Date: 2019-04-30 Impact factor: 79.321