Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The concept of a human right to health was first recognized internationally by the World Health Organization in 1946 when it declared that "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition." 1 Since that time, the right has become encoded and entrenched in both conventional and customary international law.Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) recognizes the right to health as part of an adequate standard of living closely linked with other economic and social rights such as "food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services." 2
Authors: Peter G. Danchin, Diane E. Hoffmann
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2621393509