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Health and Human Rights at the University of Aberdeen School of Law
Dr Brigit Toebes
Email: b.toebes@abdn.ac.uk
- 'Monitoring the Right to Health: a Multi-Country Study'. This project is aimed at analysing the realisation of the human right to the highest attainable standard of health in a number of countries across the world.
The purposes of the project are to give practical follow-up to the existing framework of the right to health and to disseminate information on the realisation of the right to health in the countries under scrutiny. The project is also aimed at assisting the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations in setting up a similar project.
For the reports at the IFHHRO website see here.
Questions that will come to the fore are: do the selected countries have a commitment to health in their Constitution and are they bound by a right to health under international law? How do they give effect to their international and national legal obligations in practice? To what extent do their populations have access to health services? Are certain population groups being left out?
- Scholars and students interested in drafting a country report can contact the project co-ordinator (see above).
The following countries are under scrutiny:
Middle East
- Iran: Khadijeh Hamidian
- Egypt: vacancy
- Israel: Chris Stephen
- Jordan: David Paterson
- Lebanon: Brigit Toebes
- Iraq:
vacancy
- Palestine: Kate Macgregor
Other countries
- Brazil:
Aline Albuquerque, S. de Oliveira, Luana Palmieri França Pagani, Adriano Pereira Alves de Oliveira and Anamaria Cassemiro Mariano Gonzaga.
- China: Seonaidh McIntyre
- Nigeria: Obiajulu Nnamuchi
- Japan: Dr Tokuko Munesue
- The Philippines: Caroline Adelhardt
- Serbia:
Milan Markovic
- South Africa:
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe
- Taking a human rights approach to health care privatisation.
This project is aimed at applying the human rights framework to the privatisation of national health systems. For an insight into this project see Brigit Toebes, "The right to health and the privatization of health care services: a case study of the Netherlands" (2006) 9(1) Health and Human Rights (quarterly journal of the Harvard School of Public Health), 102-127, and Brigit Toebes, "Taking a human rights approach to health care commercialisation", in Patricia Cholewka and Mitra M Motlagh, Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development, Routlegde, forthcoming in September 2007.
- The impact of acts of corruption on the enjoyment of the right to health. This paper (available here) serves as a preliminary research paper for a large-scale research project carried out by the International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) on the more general relationship between corruption and human rights.
- PhD Research by Dabney P. Evans, MPH, CHES.
'Health systems approaches to the nondiscriminatory provision of the right to health under international human rights law: A multicountry study'. In her research, Dabney will examine State obligations for the right to health by applying the normative interpretation of the right outlined in General Comment 14 to Article 5(e)iv of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). By further examining national legislation and utilising disparities in health outcomes as a proxy measure for racial discrimination, she will determine the extent to which State obligations are being fulfilled and strategize methods for improvement. For more information please visit the School of Law's research student profiles page or contact Dabney at dabney.evans@abdn.ac.uk. For more information about Dabney's professional background see the Emory University Institute of Human Rights.
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