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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right …

WebDespite efforts to increase access to health care and to better incentivize high-quality, value-based care, the United States’ health care system remains …

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Can Rights Make Any Difference for Access to Health

WebAlicia Ely Yamin is a Lecturer on Law and Director of the Global Health and Human Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, …

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A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to

WebThe United States construes the concept even more narrowly, with some arguing the right to health cannot be enjoyed there. By contrast, conceptions of health in …

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The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti …

WebBy Keon L. Gilbert and Jerrell DeCaille The health justice movement helps to marry social justice models with equity frameworks. This critical partnership advances …

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Transdisciplinary Integration: The Only Way Forward for Public …

WebLawyers and long-term thinking about law and human behavior must be more deeply entrenched in public health training and the professional skillset for public …

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Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice

WebHealth justice is a framework that “addresses the social determinants of health that result in poor health for individuals and consequential negative outcomes for …

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Why Justice is Good for America’s Health

WebBy Dayna Bowen Matthew. Justice is good for health [and] . . . health is the byproduct of justice. — Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy & Ichiro Kawachi (Boston …

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Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme

WebBy Wendy Parmet and Dorit Reiss. This Friday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about two federal vaccine mandates: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …

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What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’

WebSome health-related social movements form around victims or the relatives of victims who seek to convert their pain into activism. For example, Mothers Against …

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights

WebThis subset of procedural guarantees to protect individual autonomy has been called patients’ rights, which may be upheld even without a constitutional right to …

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What Makes a Bad Public Health Decision

WebBad public health decisions are made in siloes. Good public health decisions require the pooled expertise of a multi-disciplinary, non-hierarchical team. A …

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We Shouldn’t Be Focusing on Whether Healthcare Is a Right

WebRatification would require the creation of new federal laws to internalize the international right to health. This would provide the foundation for both robust protection …

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Harms and Biases Associated with the Social

WebBy Artair Rogers. Many health systems have begun using new screening technologies to ask patients questions about the factors outside of the clinic and hospital …

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America’s Underinsurance Crisis in the Age of COVID-19

WebBy Dessie Otachliska. The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the underinsurance crisis that has long kept millions of Americans on the precipice of …

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COVID-19, Social Movements, and Health

WebCOVID-19, Social Movements, and Health. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people protested, the issues faced by vulnerable communities, and how people …

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Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New

WebBy Zachary E. Shapiro. After COVID-19 reached the United States, New York City quickly became the epicenter of the pandemic. Clinicians at New York Presbyterian …

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Regulating Out of the Social Media Health Crisis

WebEven if it is a behavioral rather than a substantive addiction, with only indirect links to physical health, the high number of Americans who exhibit some degree of …

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The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums

WebThe Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums. January 25, 2021 dgoldberg Daniel Goldberg, Featured, Health Law Policy, Public Health, Social …

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Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety

WebThis blurred line between public health and public safety has emerged in pointed terms in the last two years in the fight over budgets, whether at the local level in …

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Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to

WebBy Aysha Pamukcu and Angela P. Harris. Using health justice to reframe and reshape the criminal legal system. The demand to “defund the police,” circulated by …

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What’s Wrong with Selling Organs (and a Taxonomy of

WebBy I. Glenn Cohen Many people – non-philosophers especially, but some philosophers as well – loosely use the term “commodification” as an objection to a “taboo …

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