The “right to health”: from who’s targets to the millenium AIMS
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2010.745n1236Keywords:
health, primary goods, global justice, capability, quality of lifeAbstract
The right to health is proclaimed by the United Nations in the Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 1981 the right to health became a goal of the new Millennium. In this paper we will demonstrate that the Millennium goals, generous as they are, rely on an insufficient interpretation of primary goods in health. On the contrary, a policy who guarantees primary health-related goods, conceived as capabilities, will not only increase the global health level of the world populations but will also reduce poverty in the world, which is the main goal of the Millennium.
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