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Effects of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on child mortality and vaccination rates: a synthetic control analysis
Scholars have long been sceptical about the effectiveness of human rights treaties in changing the behaviour of states parties and prior empirical research has often justified that scepticism. However, only a ...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2019 19:24Published on: 2 August 2019Global Abortion Policies Database: a descriptive analysis of the legal categories of lawful abortion
Texts and interpretations on the lawfulness of abortion and associated administrative requirements can be vague and confusing. It can also be difficult for a woman or provider to know exactly where to look for...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:44Published on: 20 December 2018Mandatory minimum sentencing policies and cocaine use in the U.S., 1985–2013
As of May 2017, the United States federal government renewed its prioritization for the enforcement of mandatory minimum sentences for illicit drug offenses. While the effect of such policies on racial dispari...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:43Published on: 29 November 2018Global Abortion Policies Database: a new approach to strengthening knowledge on laws, policies, and human rights standards
The Global Abortion Policies Database (GAPD), launched in June 2017, provides a verifiable, comprehensive, nuanced approach to information and data sources on abortion law and policy. Abortion laws, policies, ...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:35Published on: 12 September 2018Factors shaping political priorities for violence against women-mitigation policies in Sri Lanka
Although violence against women (VAW) is a global public health issue, its importance as a health issue is often unrecognized in legal and health policy documents. This paper uses Sri Lanka as a case study to ...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:22Published on: 25 May 2018Assessing refugee healthcare needs in Europe and implementing educational interventions in primary care: a focus on methods
The current political crisis, conflicts and riots in many Middle Eastern and African countries have led to massive migration waves towards Europe. European countries, receiving these migratory waves as first p...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:11Published on: 8 February 2018Realising the right to sexual and reproductive health: access to essential medicines for medical abortion as a core obligation
WHO has a pivotal role to play as the leading international agency promoting good practices in health and human rights. In 2005, mifepristone and misoprostol were added to WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicin...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:8Published on: 1 February 2018Curbing the lifestyle disease pandemic: making progress on an interdisciplinary research agenda for law and policy interventions
By 2030, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will be the leading cause of death in every region in the world. While law and policy have an important role to play in curbing this pandemic, our current understanding...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2017 17:25Published on: 18 September 2017Realizing Universal Health Coverage in East Africa: the relevance of human rights
Applying a robust human rights framework would change thinking and decision-making in efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and advance efforts to promote women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ he...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2017 17:21Published on: 3 August 2017Assessing the universal health coverage target in the Sustainable Development Goals from a human rights perspective
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, include a comprehensive health goal, “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages.” The health goal (SDG 3) has nine sub...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:33Published on: 15 December 2016Is the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Impacting Mental Health Laws and Policies in High-Income Countries? A Case Study of Implementation in Canada
Persons with psychosocial disabilities face disparate access to healthcare and social services worldwide, along with systemic discrimination, structural inequalities, and widespread human rights abuses. Accord...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:28Published on: 11 November 2016Does the operations of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana align with the goals of Primary Health Care? Perspectives of key stakeholders in northern Ghana
In 2005, the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged member states to aim at achieving affordable universal coverage and access to key promotive, preventive, curative, rehabili...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:21Published on: 30 August 2016Legal knowledge, needs, and assistance seeking among HIV positive and negative women in Umlazi, South Africa
The rights of women and people living with HIV (PLHIV) are protected under South African law, yet there is a gap in the application of these laws. While there are numerous systemic and social barriers to women...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:3Published on: 22 January 2016Could international compulsory licensing reconcile tiered pricing of pharmaceuticals with the right to health?
The heads of the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance have recently promoted the idea of an international tiered pricing framework for medicines, despite objections from civil society groups who fear that this wo...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:37Published on: 18 December 2014Post-crisis Zimbabwe’s innovative financing mechanisms in the social sectors: a practical approach to implementing the new deal for engagement in fragile states
Donor engagement in transitional settings, complex emergencies and fragile states is increasing. Neither short-term humanitarian aid nor traditional development financing are well adapted for such environments...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:35Published on: 14 December 2014From international health to global health: how to foster a better dialogue between empirical and normative disciplines
Public health recommendations are usually based on a mixture of empirical evidence and normative arguments: to argue that authorities ought to implement an intervention that has proven effective in improving p...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:36Published on: 12 December 2014Lessons from Africa: developing a global human rights framework for tuberculosis control and prevention
Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease, and there has been a rise in recent years of drug-resistant cases no longer responding to standard treatment.BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:34Published on: 3 December 2014The government of Kenya cash transfer for orphaned and vulnerable children: cross-sectional comparison of household and individual characteristics of those with and without
The ‘Cash Transfer to Orphans and Vulnerable Children’ (CT-OVC) in Kenya is a government-supported program intended to provide regular and predictable cash transfers (CT) to poor households taking care of OVC....BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:25Published on: 20 September 2014- BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:18Published on: 30 May 2014The original article was published in BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:5
The impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer program on children’s health care utilization and health outcomes
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs provide poor families with cash conditional on investments in health and education. Brazil’s Bolsa Família program began in 2003 and is currently the largest CCT progra...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:10Published on: 1 April 2014Correlates of out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditures in Tanzania: results from a national household survey
Inequality in health services access and utilization are influenced by out-of-pocket health expenditures in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Various antecedents such as social factors, poor health...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:5Published on: 5 March 2014The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:18The emergence of a global right to health norm – the unresolved case of universal access to quality emergency obstetric care
The global response to HIV suggests the potential of an emergent global right to health norm, embracing shared global responsibility for health, to assist policy communities in framing the obligations of the d...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:4Published on: 27 February 2014Is universal health coverage the practical expression of the right to health care?
The present Millennium Development Goals are set to expire in 2015 and their next iteration is now being discussed within the international community. With regards to health, the World Health Organization prop...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2014 14:3Published on: 24 February 2014What could a strengthened right to health bring to the post-2015 health development agenda?: interrogating the role of the minimum core concept in advancing essential global health needs
Global health institutions increasingly recognize that the right to health should guide the formulation of replacement goals for the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015. However, the right to he...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:48Published on: 1 December 2013Improvement in health and empowerment of families as a result of watershed management in a tribal area in India - a qualitative study
Tribal people in India, as in other parts of the world, reside mostly in forests and/or hilly terrains. Water scarcity and health problems related to it are their prime concern. Watershed management can contri...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:42Published on: 12 October 2013Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: a national level investigation of members’ perceptions of service provision
Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), established into law in 2003 and implemented in 2005 as a ‘pro-poor’ method of health financing, has made great progress in enrolling members of the general pop...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:35Published on: 23 August 2013Measuring governance at health facility level: developing and validation of simple governance tool in Zambia
Governance has been cited as a key determinant of economic growth, social advancement and overall development. Achievement of millennium development goals is partly dependant on governance practices. In 2007, ...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:34Published on: 9 August 2013Performance and determinants of routine immunization coverage within the context of intensive polio eradication activities in Uttar Pradesh, India: Social Mobilization Network (SM Net) and Core Group Polio Project (CGPP)
Studies that have looked at the effect of polio eradication efforts in India on routine immunization programs have provided mixed findings. One polio eradication project, funded by US Agency for International ...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:25Published on: 16 May 2013The range and diversity of providers’ viewpoints towards the Iraqi primary health care system: an exploration using Q-methodology
The increasingly recognized need for reorganizing the primary health care services in Iraq calls for a comprehensive assessment of the system to better understand its problems and needs for development. As par...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:18Published on: 21 March 2013Barriers to the participation of people with psychosocial disability in mental health policy development in South Africa: a qualitative study of perspectives of policy makers, professionals, religious leaders and academics
This paper outlines stakeholder views on environmental barriers that prevent people who live with psychosocial disability from participating in mental health policy development in South Africa.BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:17Published on: 11 March 2013Redeeming qualities: exploring factors that affect women’s use of reproductive health vouchers in Cambodia
One approach to delivering healthcare in developing countries is through voucher programs, where vouchers are distributed to a specific population for free or subsidized health care. Recent evaluations suggest...BMC International Health and Human Rights 2013 13:13Published on: 26 February 2013
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