International Journal of Contemporary Pathology
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

Right to Health: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health

  • Author:
  • Sartaj Ahmad1, Arvind Kumar Shukla2, Manoj Kumar Tripathi3, Sarika Tyagi4
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 31 to 35

1Assistant Professor, (Medical Sociology), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

2Assistant Professor, (Biostatistics), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

3Associate Professor, (Political Science), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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

Online published on 15 October, 2016.

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