Category Archives: Human rights

Human rights, direitos humanos, derechos humanos, droits humains

Expanded Program on Immunization in the Americas: 40 years

This entry was posted in General, Human rights and tagged Equity of Access to Immunization, Immunization by Editor Equity/Equidad.

Editorial Author: Etienne, Carissa F. Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2017 Spanish version published online: March, 2018 Childhood immunization programs have had a dramatic impact on child morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Latin America and the Caribbean, nearly 174 000 deaths were prevented through vaccination of children under 5 years of age in […]

Violence against children in Latin America and Caribbean countries: a comprehensive review of national health sector efforts in prevention and response

This entry was posted in Human rights and tagged Caribbean, Health System, Latin America, Violence Against Children by Editor Equity/Equidad.

Authors: Andrea L. Wirtz, Carmen Alvarez, Alessandra C. Guedes, Luisa Brumana, Cecilie Modvar, Nancy Glass BMC Public Health BMC series – open, inclusive and trusted 2016 16:1006 Published online: 22 September 2016 Abstract / Resumen: Background: Violence against children (VAC) remains a global problem. The health sector has an opportunity and responsibility to be part of […]

Bridging the gaps: a global review of intersections of violence against women and violence against children

This entry was posted in Human rights and tagged Adolescents, Agenda 2030, Child Abuse, Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, Sustainable Development Goals by Editor Equity/Equidad.

Global Health Action, vol 9 (2016) Published online: 20 June 2016 Abstract / Resumen: Background: The international community recognises violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) as global human rights and public health problems. Historically, research, programmes, and policies on these forms of violence followed parallel but distinct trajectories. Some have called for efforts […]

Brocher Summer Academy in Population-level Bioethics: Ethical Issues in Randomized Trials in Development Economics and Health Policy

This entry was posted in Equity, Health economics, Human rights, Social determinants, Universal health coverage and tagged 40 scholars (faculty post-doctoral fellows and advanced graduate students) in philosophy, and global health, and practitioners and professionals in health policy and global health, economics and other social sciences, political science, selected from applications., the biomedical sciences by Editor Equity/Equidad - DB.

Where: Brocher Foundation villa in Hermance, Switzerland
Deadline for applications: 11 March, 2016

Policy Brief: Anchoring universal health coverage in the right to health: What difference would it make?

This entry was posted in Equity, Human rights, Universal health coverage and tagged Equity in Health, Right to Health, Universal Health Coverage by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG.

World Health Organization

Chapter book: Moving Towards a Better Understanding of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Preventive Health Care Use: A Life Course Perspective

This entry was posted in Equity, Human rights and tagged Health Care Systems, Life Course, Socioeconomic Inequalites by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG.

Sarah Missinne

In: A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions. Life Course Research and Social Policies Volume 4, 2015, pp 111-131
Springer Open, 2015