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Edition: 1
Release: 2007-09-06
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0801886473
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Public Health and Human Rights pdf
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Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populations—from repressive laws to social discord, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and violations in conflict. Divided into three sections, this provocative work investigates how the complex interactions between rights and health can best be studied, analyzed, and remedied; how the efforts of human rights advocates affect health outcomes; and how modern public health procedures can assist in documenting, understanding, and preventing human rights violations. Part I illuminates the powerful relationship between rights work and public health practice in Thailand, Russia, Burma, and China and in U.S. prisons. Part II explores new methodologies and new uses of previous practices for rights-ba Download Public Health and Human Rights for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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