Title: Tracing Human Rights in Health
This paper is an endeavor to place the evolution of right to health in a historical context. It highlights the debates within the newly emergent discipline of Health & Human Rights. The Paper includes sections on the genesis of public health & human rights, justifiability of health rights from the International Law point of view, human rights issues affecting the enjoyment of health right, experience of developing countries and India in implementing the health right.
Title: Identities in Motion; Migration and Health in India
Human spatial mobility started about two decades ago for various systemic, economic and individual reasons, but there is a lack of systematic information and health risk assessment among the mobile population. This paper addresses the issue of migration and its public health implications within the human rights framework. Migrants have always been conceptualized as problematic in the context of policies both nationally and internationally. This mindset has led to complex public health issues posed by migration. Understanding migrants’ health extends to capturing the underlying determinants including adequate nutrition, housing, healthy environment, and occupational conditions, access to health related education and information as well as access to health care and education. Healthcare of migrants has suffered due to the presence of divergent models of how and when nations are responsible for the health and safety of individuals. The most important factor that separates the rights from being realized is the gross underestimation of migrants both at origin and destination
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