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1 online resource (xvii, 492 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Litigating a Right to Health Care in New Zealand / Joanna Manning -- The Right to Health in Sweden / Anna-Sara Lind -- Litigating Health Rights in Canada: A White Knight for Equity? / Colleen M. Flood -- Promoting Access and Equity in Health: Assessing the National Health Service in England / Chris Newdick -- Colombia's Right-to-Health Litigation in a Context of Health Care Reform / Everaldo Lamprea -- The Right to Health in Israel between Solidarity and Neoliberalism / Aeyal Gross -- Health Care Access in the Netherlands: A True Story / André den Exter -- Addressing Equity in Health Care at the Public-Private Intersection: The Role of Health Rights Enforcement in Hungary / Mária Éva Földes -- Lending a Helping Hand: The Impact of Constitutional Interpretation on Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program, Health Equity, and Distributive Justice / Y.Y. Brandon Chen -- Health Rights at the Juncture between State and Market: The People's Republic of China / Christina S. Ho -- The Role of Rights and Litigation in Assuring More Equitable Access to Health Care in South Africa / Lisa Forman and Jerome Amir Singh -- Provision of Health Care Services and the Right to Health in Brazil: The Long, Winding, and Uncertain Road to Equality / Mariana Mota Prado -- A Vision of an Emerging Right to Health Care in the United States: Expanding Health Care Equity through Legislative Reform / Allison K. Hoffman -- The Legal Protection and Enforcement of Health Rights in Nigeria / Remigius N. Nwabueze -- Litigating the Right to Health in Venezuela: A Nonjusticiable Right in the Context of a Deficient Health Care System / Oscar A. Cabrera and Fanny Gómez -- Right to Health: Addressing Inequities through Litigation in India / Anand Grover, Maitreyi Misra, and Lubhyathi Rangarajan -- Conclusion: Contexts for the Promise and Peril of the Right to Health / Colleen M. Flood & Aeyal Gross. |
| Summary |
"In 2006, a WHO survey found evidence of a substantial increase in patient-led litigation against health authorities and funders over access to medicines around the world. New Zealanders have seldom litigated denials of access to health care. Part of the explanation lies in the fact that New Zealand has a legislated patients' "bill of rights", with enforcement through a complaints mechanism. Although the separate regime does not afford patients substantive legal protection in respect of complaints about lack of access to care, this form of alternative, low-level resolution of health care disputes does condition disgruntled patients not to turn to the courts for legal redress in relation to their rights. But given the increasing need for prioritization arising from serious concern about the sustainability of the public health system, as well as a trend towards greater explicitness when it occurs, increased disappointment on behalf of patients and the public when care is denied or limited seems inevitable. This may well translate into increased patient-led litigation against health boards and funders. Part 1 provides an overview of the New Zealand health system, with a focus on the points at which resource allocation decisions are made, the identity of the decision-maker, and the methods by which priority-setting occurs. Part 1.1 describes inequalities between population groups in New Zealand, both in health outcomes and in access to health care. Part 2 describes the legal framework surrounding the health and disability sector, and discusses the lack of legislated rights to health and the limited right of access to health care in legislation, despite the existence of a legally enforceable Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical care -- Law and legislation.
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Medical care -- Law and legislation. |
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Right to health.
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Right to health. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
| Added Author |
Flood, Colleen M., editor.
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Gross, Aeyal M., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Right to health at the public/private divide 9781107038301 (DLC) 2013042458 (OCoLC)862066440 |
| ISBN |
9781316004135 (electronic book) |
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1316004139 (electronic book) |
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9781139814768 (electronic book) |
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1139814761 (electronic book) |
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9781107038301 (hardback) |
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1107038308 (hardback) |
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9781316008638 |
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1316008630 |
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