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1 online resource (x, 312 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not easily fit the traditional 'claim right' model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. This book addresses this break between theory and practice with an account of the right to health care that is philosophically and practically sound. Utilizing a pluralist framework, Michael Da Silva argues that the right to health care is best understood as a set of claims to related ends: the goods necessary for a dignified existence, procedural fairness in determining what other goods to provide and in the provision of goods, and a functioning health care system. Through philosophical reasoning, analysis of relevant international human rights law, and a close study of the Canadian case, this book provides insights into the potential of law and policy to improve health care systems in Canada and beyond"-- Provided by the publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Conceptualizing and measuring the right to health care. Health rights : a taxonomy -- The case for a pluralist conception of the right to health care -- The pluralist right to health care and international human rights law -- Appendix 1. A (non-exhaustive) list of key sources for identifying the international right to health care -- Metrics for realization of the right to health care -- Appendix 2. Metrics for comparative analysis of right to health care implementation -- Part II. The right to health care in Canada : a case study in realization -- The mainstream Canadian health care system and the pluralist right to health care -- Vulnerable populations in Canada and the pluralist right to health care -- Tools for better realizing the pluralist right to health care in Canada -- Concluding thoughts and the path(s) forward. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Right to health -- Canada.
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Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Canada.
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Canada |
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LAW / General. |
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Medical care -- Law and legislation |
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Right to health |
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Canada |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Da Silva, Michael. Pluralist right to health care. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487508727 9781487508722 (OCoLC)1223012565 |
| ISBN |
9781487538828 (PDF) |
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1487538820 (PDF) |
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9781487538835 (EPUB) |
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1487538839 (EPUB) |
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