International Journal of Contemporary Microbiology
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

The Role of the State in the Implementation to Attained Highest Standard of Health Policies

  • Author:
  • Manoj Kumar Tripathi1, Sartaj Ahmad2,, Arvind Kumar Shukla3, Sarika Tyagi4
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 40 to 44

1Associate Professor (Political Science), Department of Community Medicine, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

2Associate Professor (Medical Sociology), Department of Community Medicine, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

3Assistant Professor, (Biostatistics), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

4Associate Professor (Faculty of law), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Sartaj Ahmad Telephone: 09897093882, Email: sartajsaleem@gmail.com

Online published on 4 March, 2017.

Abstract

The Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) by the United Nations grants the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being to humans including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond human control. World Health Organization had also advocated Primary Health Care strategy in 1978 for achieving the Health-for-All by year 2000.

Keywords

Right to health, Child health, Mother health, Disabilities, HIV