Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Public Health and Human Rights
. Ed(S): Beyrer, Chris; Pizer, H.F.
€ 82.94
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Public Health and Human Rights
Hardback. Part III confronts current policy approaches-such as Brazil's integration of rights, HIV/AIDS programming, and the contradictory and confounding global policies on illicit drugs-and offers recommendations for future programs and strategies. Editor(s): Beyrer, Chris; Pizer, H.F. Num Pages: 512 pages, 31, 31 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH; MBNH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 817.
Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populations-from repressive laws to social discord, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and violations in conflict. Divided into three sections, this provocative work investigates how the complex interactions between rights and health can best be studied, analyzed, and remedied; how the efforts of human rights advocates affect health outcomes; and how modern public health procedures can assist in documenting, understanding, and preventing human rights violations. Part I illuminates the powerful relationship between rights work and public health practice in Thailand, Russia, Burma, and China and in U.S. prisons. Part II explores new methodologies and new uses of previous practices for rights-based public health research. Part III confronts current policy approaches-such as Brazil's integration of rights, HIV/AIDS programming, and the contradictory and confounding global policies on illicit drugs-and offers recommendations for future programs and strategies.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801886461
SKU
V9780801886461
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-33
About . Ed(S): Beyrer, Chris; Pizer, H.F.
Chris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of epidemiology and international health, director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, and associate director of the Center for Global Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. H. F. Pizer is the cofounder and principal of Health Care Strategies, Inc., and author, coauthor, or editor of thirteen medical books.
Reviews for Public Health and Human Rights
Many of the case studies are powerful and hopeful... Recommended. Choice 2008 The strength of the book is the authors' and editors' insistence on 'evidence-based approaches' to abuse and harm. They explain why acquiring reliable evidence about the effects on health of abuses of human rights requires changing principles and methods that researchers in industrial countries take for granted.
Daniel M. Fox, PhD JAMA 2008 The message of this book is clear... A rights-based analysis of our public health policies is a requirement of the times in which we live.
William M. Valenti AIDS Reader 2008 The book is well constructed and provides insights into how to approach public health programs in unique situations where human rights violations constrain public health workers' ability to assist populations at risk... The examples in this book provide a set of tools to consider when we find ourselves in unique situations.
Maryn Elizabeth Torner Doody's Review Service 2008 A good resource for students. It is a quick and interesting read.
Catherine G. Chalin Canadian Journal of Public Health 2008 This engaging and important book is likely to interest a broad range of readers.
Steven S. Coughlin European Journal of Public Health 2008 Valuable and enlightening... Mental health specialists will find here much to reflect about. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2008 A good addition to the burgeoning literature on global health, and I would recommend it strongly to practitioners.
Nana K. Poku Development in Practice 2008 The individual case studies are fascinating, and provide insight into the challenges of working in oppressive and dangerous environments.
Kate van Dooren Critical Public Health 2008 Well researched and timely, and cites well-documented evidence. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2010
Daniel M. Fox, PhD JAMA 2008 The message of this book is clear... A rights-based analysis of our public health policies is a requirement of the times in which we live.
William M. Valenti AIDS Reader 2008 The book is well constructed and provides insights into how to approach public health programs in unique situations where human rights violations constrain public health workers' ability to assist populations at risk... The examples in this book provide a set of tools to consider when we find ourselves in unique situations.
Maryn Elizabeth Torner Doody's Review Service 2008 A good resource for students. It is a quick and interesting read.
Catherine G. Chalin Canadian Journal of Public Health 2008 This engaging and important book is likely to interest a broad range of readers.
Steven S. Coughlin European Journal of Public Health 2008 Valuable and enlightening... Mental health specialists will find here much to reflect about. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2008 A good addition to the burgeoning literature on global health, and I would recommend it strongly to practitioners.
Nana K. Poku Development in Practice 2008 The individual case studies are fascinating, and provide insight into the challenges of working in oppressive and dangerous environments.
Kate van Dooren Critical Public Health 2008 Well researched and timely, and cites well-documented evidence. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2010