The Minimum Core of the Human Right to Health

doi:10.1596/29143

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The Minimum Core of the Human Right to Health

dc.contributor.author	Tasioulas, John
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-11T17:54:22Z
dc.date.available	2018-01-11T17:54:22Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10
dc.description.abstract	This Report offers a critical interpretation of the idea of ‘minimum core obligations’ associated with the right to health in international, regional and domestic law and practice. Two important methodological complexities affecting this project need to be highlighted from the very outset. First, it cannot be assumed that all uses of expressions such as ‘the human right to health’, ‘the right to health’, or ‘minimum core obligations’ bear the same meaning. Second, in seeking to identify the role played by the idea of minimum core obligations in the law and practice relating to the right to health in various jurisdictions, we must distinguish the concept of such obligations from the use of the words ‘minimum core obligations’. The structure of this report is as follows. In Part II the idea of minimum core obligations corresponding to the right to health is examined as it manifests itself in international law and practice. Parts II and III consider how the same doctrine manifests itself in the context of regional legal orders (II) and state law and practice (III). Given the enormous volume of material potentially relevant here, these latter two parts are necessarily highly selective, with a focus on some of the most fertile cases for grasping the bearing on the minimum core doctrine on the right to health. Finally, in Part IV, the potential role of the minimum core obligations with respect to the right to health are highlighted with respect to development, focusing in particular on their bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals, priority-setting more generally, and the use of indicators.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/194751515587192833/The-minimum-core-of-the-human-right-to-health
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/29143
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29143
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	HEALTH
dc.subject	HUMAN RIGHTS
dc.subject	LEGAL RIGHTS
dc.subject	MINIMUM CORE
dc.subject	UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE
dc.title	The Minimum Core of the Human Right to Health	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	The Minimum Core of the Human Right to Health
okr.date.disclosure	2018-01-10
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/194751515587192833/The-minimum-core-of-the-human-right-to-health
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/29143
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okr.identifier.report	122561
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/194751515587192833/pdf/122561-WP-Tasioulas-PUBLIC.pdf	en
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Policy and Management
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health and Poverty
okr.topic	Law and Development::Health Law
okr.topic	Law and Development::Human Rights
okr.unit	Legal - Operations (LEGOP)