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Publications Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD

WEBBenjamin Mason Meier & Lance Gable, Advancing the Human Right to Health: Eleanor Kinney’s Seminal Contributions to the Development and Implementation of Human Rights for Public Health, 17 INDIANA HEALTH LAW REVIEW 21-32 (2020). Lawrence O. Gostin & Benjamin Mason Meier, Introducing Global Health Law, 47 JOURNAL OF LAW, …

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Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health Systems

WEBA rights-based approach to public health systems focuses on underlying determinants of health Ð the economic, political, and social systems that determine health status and have far greater impact on health than the provision of medicine. With an understanding that health vulnerability is societally structured, public health systems can be

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4 The political evolution of health as a human right

WEB4 The political evolution of health as a human right Conceptualizing public health under international law, 1940s–1990s Benjamin Mason Meier Cited by health advocates throughout the world, human rights have become a cornerstone of global health governance, foundational to contemporary policy discourses and programmatic …

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Development as Health: Employing the Collective Right to …

WEBhealth’s focus on the individual, offers public health actors an opportunity to work through development discourses to obligate and empower states to allocate public goods for the public’s health. This article concludes that health scholars and advocates could employ the right to development to

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Making Health a Human Right: The World Health …

WEBhealth, this narrative focuses on human rights under international law as a tool for public health, with international human rights rising in international relations to become an influential legal discourse in framing 8Within the health literature, “vertical” programs refer to focused disease-specific interven-

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The evolution of human rights in World Health Organization …

WEBbased approach to health, failed effort to employ rights-based language for primary health care, and rediscovery of human rights protections in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. With WHO now attempting a more systematic mainstreaming of health-related rights, an initiative given new focus under the current reform process, it is necessary

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8 The World Health

WEBtreaties, the International Health Conference ‘extended [WHO] from the nega-tive aspects of public health – vaccination and other specific means of combating infection – to positive aspects, i.e. the improvement of public health by better food, physical education, medical care, health insurance, etc’ (Sˇtampar 1949).

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Advancing Health I Globalized World: Covenant on Economic, …

WEBhealth, focused on a right to individual medical care, is incapable of responding to health inequities in a glo-balized world and thereby hampers efforts to opera-tionalize health rights through public health systems. While the right to health has evolved in international discourse over time, this evolution of the individual

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From Conception to Realization: A Human Right to Health

WEBright to health in isolation is to miss a key contribution of rights to health and well-being and an important area for re-flection and debate. With respect to the authors’ spe-cific focus on the right to health—or, more accurately, on the component of the right to health concerned with ac-cess to health care and the allocation of

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Accountability for the human right to health through treaty …

WEBbased reporting and public health data as a basis to facilitate accountability for human rights implementation. Background As a basis for global justice under international law, human rights stands as a central normative fra-mework for global health, offering universal standards by which to frame government responsibil-

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Human Rights in Global Health Governance

WEBhealth governance institutions in structuring the implementation of human rights for public health. THEMATIC CONTENT OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE. The diverse scholarship highlighted in this Special Issue identifies the rights-based actions of global health institutions and analyzes facilitating and inhibiting factors for human rights

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HEALTH AS FREEDOM: ADDRESSING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS …

WEBhealth in the developing world.15 However, parallel with the genesis of neoliberalism was the growth of ‘selective’ primary health care, known in its most recent incarnation as the GOBI (Growth-monitoring, Oral-rehydration, Breast-feeding, and Immunization) approach to global health.16 In sharp contrast to the broad, horizontal vision

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PLCY 565: GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY

WEBPLCY 565: GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy Department of Public Policy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 204 Abernethy Hall, CB #3435 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3435 919-962-0542 [email protected]

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The Highest Attainable Standard: The World Health …

WEBThe World Health Organization, Global Health Governance, and the Contentious Politics of Human Rights Benjamin Mason Meier Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE AND CONTENTIOUS …

WEBPri-mary health care is the key to at-taining this target as part of devel-opment in the spirit of social justice. 2010 Global Health Governance. 3. This Article chronicles the evolution of a human right to health, focusing on WHO’s role in …

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Health, Human Rights, and Global Public Health Systems

WEBHealth, Columbia University . Jennifer Prah Ruger, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health . This dissertation attempts to uncover the discourses that have led to the evolution of legal norms encompassing the right to health, examining how such norms have

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A Rights-Based Approach to Health Care Reform

WEBA Rights-Based Approach to Health Care Reform 71 health equity. With reß exive antipathy toward a human right to health care, the U.S. policy debate has largely excluded human rights obligations Ð to the detriment of universal health care reform. After 60 years in the evolution of health rights, are international legal obligations now ripe

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EXAMINING NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LAW TO REALIZE THE …

WEBEXAMINING NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LAW TO REALIZE THE GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY AGENDA BENJAMIN MASON MEIER,1* KARA TURESKI,2 EMILY BOCKH,2 DEREK CARR,2 ANA AYALA,3 ANNA ROBERTS,3 LINDSAY CLOUD,4 NICOLAS WILHELM4 AND SCOTT BURRIS4 1Department of Public Policy, University of North …

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Training for Interdisciplinary Health Research

WEBmedicine and health sciences (11), public health and envi-ronmental sciences (12), and the natural (3) and social sci-ences (8). The prospective panelists were informed that their participation on the expert panel would require up to three rounds of an online Delphi-type survey, with each round taking approximately 20 minutes. Of the 30 invitees,

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THE HIGHEST ATTAINABLE STANDARD: ADVANCING A …

WEB79. For a description of the process through which the 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion added “health promotion” to public health’s core mandate of “health protection,” see John Raeburn & Sarah Macfarlane, Putting the Public into Public Health, in Global Public Health, supra note 9, at 243, 245. 80.

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Law and the Public’s Health

WEBA state’s health department can be pivotal in generating the initiative and gathering the expertise to pursue public health law modernization, including recognition of the need for reform, exami- nation of model public health laws, development of gap analyses, and drafting of proposed bills. Even legislators who support reform will be hard

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The World Health Organization between North and South by …

WEBIthaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $45.00. Instrumental to an understanding of agent preference, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) turbulent political history highlights the mechanisms by which international organizations influence international relations to impact global health. Rather than analyzing WHO simply as a

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