HRA 513 - Human Right to Health

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The human right to health is protected in multiple human rights treaties. Several countries around the world, most notably South Africa, have used the human right to health to adjudicate the quality of life needs for all citizens. A human right to health includes rights to mental as well as physical well-being and is not merely an absence of illness. Students learn what a right to health constitutes, how governments use the human right to health to make decisions about healthy living and public health issues (such as a right to clean water). Students examine the use of human rights law in overall health assessments as well as the development and operationalization of the right to health within communities.